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Simply A Masterpiece

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I am both a zombie film fan (A la Romero, and Simon Pegg) and an animation buff. I'm also fairly picky. City of Rott seems to have been someone's kitchen sink project that managed to get enough distribution to find it's charmingly awkward way into my local Hollywood Video. I rented it with fairly low expectations, and wasn't terribly disappointed. When I looked at the box in the store, I guessed that C.o.R would be quirky, at times repetitive, uneven, and (shudder) possibly entirely Flash animation. It turns out I wan't terribly off base in my assessment (all points)...The Good: It was great to see an angry, kooky "elderly" protagonist. There was enough in the way of Zombie-buff in-jokes (read the signs in the background- there's as much going on there at times as in the foreground) and silly, ham-handed social commentary to give me a few good giggles. I found it worth a watch. The Bad: Man... 77minutes of average quality Flash-based animation...one (just one) interesting character...ooh..uhh... hmmm... did I mention the 77 minutes of quirky flash animation? A cludgy script with a few really brylllunt moments...could have said it better in under an hour.... crunchy industrial techno score ground out relentlessly until the bitter end...My Verdict: Again... for fans of Zombiedom, worth 1 watch.

As someone who generally can't get into anime because of the over the top humor, and clichés, it's rare and refreshing to find an adult animated horror film made outside Asia, that delivers bloody zombie carnage that I cherish so much. Unfortunately this film has several faults that bog it down. First the good- Seeing an elderly man dispatch the living dead in bloody and inventive ways mostly with his trustee walker ( which talks to him by the way). The Bad- The story really falls apart towards the end, and for the last twenty minutes or so the film just kind of wanders around like it has no idea where to go.I hate to give the film an average rating, but ultimately the last part fell apart, and I really thought the dialogue could have been a little more clever and humorous. I'll give the film a very generous 7 out of 10, because this type of film is very rare for guys like me who aren't into anime.

Frank Sudol has done an incredible job of making an animated movie by himself and it looks somewhat reminiscent of a Cannibal Corpse cover throughout. I was initially attracted to Sudol's artistic style but quickly became bored because of the repetitiveness of the movie. While this would have been fine as a 5 or 10 minute short, there just wasn't enough story to fill a movie length feature and it became almost unbearably boring to watch. I'm sure there will be those that watched it with friends and maybe under the influence of chemicals, they will have found it to be hilarious or entertaining but as I watched it sober and alone, I really felt it needed to have been a short feature only.

Summary: All the World's water is infected with worms that turn people into zombies. This has been happening for a year or two. All water is infected including rain, river, filtered, All of it. An Old Man Named Fred goes through a city just to look for a pair of slippers(Loofers as he calls them) with perfect knowledge that this is happening.The movie is well done. It's genius if anything. The movie is a non stop action film with an unrealistic number of zombies. The movie is insane, full of gore, and funny (in a sense). Although the movie is-in general- for zombie fans. I will agree with Evan Mugford; the walking through scenes are long and there are too many of them but the fighting scenes are to be admired. Over all I say to all the zombie fans of the world SEE THIS MOVIE!