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Aeon Flux

Aeon Flux

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Aeon must die!
Review:


These stories are OUTSTANDING! Great little animated tales about a world not so different from our own, detailing the lives and loves of Monikan agent Aeon Flux.


If you like weirdness and sci-fi mixed with super strange sexiness, these stories are for you. Great characters, plots, and artwork.


-- JJ Timmins



Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Aeon must die!
Review:


These stories are OUTSTANDING! Great little animated tales about a world not so different from our own, detailing the lives and loves of Monikan agent Aeon Flux.


If you like weirdness and sci-fi mixed with super strange sexiness, these stories are for you. Great characters, plots, and artwork.


-- JJ Timmins



Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Peter Chung's creation warps your mind while expanding it.
Review: Aeon Flux, the animation, breaks down the boundaries not only of animation, but of cinematic experience as well. Non-linear, often dialogue-free, storytelling makes the viewer work very hard to derive meaning, but for the hard-working viewer the payoff is a big one.

The hardcore science fiction sensibility of Aeon Flux takes sado-masochistic imagery, Cronenbergian 'New Flesh' concepts and a Japanese-style adult approach and combines all these elements into a dreamlike narrative that at once enthralls and alienates you.

There is something simultaneously appealing and repugnant about the world and its characters, just as the viewer alternately identifies with, and then despises, the character of Aeon Flux - and similarly cannot bring themselves to hate her nemesis (and lover) Trevor Goodchild completely.

If light, escapist entertainment is what you're after, look elsewhere, but Aeon Flux will grab you by the seat of your cerebrum and keep you guessing and marveling right to the end.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A full-blooded, American Anime
Review: Aeon Flux. It exists within its own genre and nearly is its own genre. It is what I like to term "American Anime." That is, that there is an obvious inspiration taken from Japanese style animation. However, this is not Japanese. This interesting hybrid is the brainchild of one Peter Chung.

Being American, this animation is more realistic looking, the characters looking less like anime and more like animated real people. The style strikes me as American too, all clean lines and sleek though utilitarian functionality.

Aeon Flux is a complex, quirky, and very weird animation that tells the tale of two nations, Bregnia and Monica. At some point, these nations became estranged from one another and a border wall armed with automatic guns now clearly seperates them. It is vaguely like East and West Germany during the cold war. Matters were made worse when Bregnia is forced under the control of a new and strange leader, Trevor Goodchild. The motives and desires of Trevor are unusual in the extreme.

Aeon herself, being the title character, is an agent in the service of the Monican government. She is a self-styled anarchist who fights for the ideals of her country and herself, while, at the same time, being the lover of Trevor Goodchild.

This show was something rare and something very different. It still amazes me that this even got onto TV. It is a show that is at once very philosophical while being also very surreal. Each episode explores some new twisted dimension of thought.

I would hesitate to show this to small children as there is some violence and mild sexual innuendo. The deeper story of each episode would also elude a small child.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: "That which does not kill us, makes us stranger."
Review: Ah, the weirdness found in snips and snaps from the old "MTV Liquid Television" days..."Aeon Flux" was easily the most inspired efforts from those brilliantly twisted pseudo-underground types back in the day...and thanks to Peter Chung's latter day successes with the "Matriculated" episode from "The Animatrix" and the "Reign: The Conqueror" series, maybe those who weren't on board during the era when grunge was king will give these earlier made-for-basic-cable exercises in sex (such as it was) and violence (as it always is) another look.

This was my informal introduction to anime, and although it lacks most of the essential elements of the genre, I still feel "Aeon Flux" better captures its finest qualities, so much so that more often than not I find myself drawn away from the round-faced, big watery-eyed (and dog-whistley high-pitched female voices) of most anime artists even now.

Most anime purists for some reason don't rate this at all (for what anyone else's opinions are worth), but I've never understood WHY...it's got the elements of every decent adult-oriented anime I've ever seen...scantily-clad women, gratuitous violence, and a detached sense of things which seemingly happen for no clearly defined reason (this is especially the case in the shorts taken from the "Liquid Television" series as opposed to the half-hour episodes selected from the "Aeon Flux" series...though even those don't seem to have begun from a specific point). This is a good collection of episodic animation that you won't need to buy an additional 5-10 DVD's to complete; the artwork does look a bit dated and possibly could have used better production values...but keep in mind that this was never supposed to be more than a warm-up act for "120 Minutes" on Sunday nights. I think all things considered, it holds up well and does serve notice that Peter Chung was definitely and up-and-comer in the animation world. Well-recommended (if you can find it, of course)...good luck!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: entertaining
Review: As a big fan of anime I was excited to get my hands on this DVD and was not dissapointed...for the most part. I wasn't a huge fan of the MTV series when it was aired but I remembered it fondly and I LOVE animation so this was an easy purchase. All in all its a good DVD that includes 4 episodes and 4 shorts. I have to agree with the previous reviewer that the shorts are much better than the actual show but it makes for interesting sci-fi viewing. If you can stand plot and character development then you'll like this DVD. All in all this is a uniquely animated and well scripted show that should be on the shelves of any hardcore animation fan. However, if you're just getting into animation then there are better choices out there like Samurai X, Cowboy Bebop, or any anime movie with the word "Ninja" in the title. Hope that helps! =)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: She's the coolest
Review: Ever since I saw the first clips on Liquid Television, I knew Aeon Flux was my heroine! Peter Chung is a very original animator and conceptual designer. I love this movie because it encompasses all that is Aeon, from the futuristic world that she lives in, the interesting characters she encounters, her secret missions to bring down the Breen government, and of course her love affair with Trevor Goodchild, her arch-enemy!
Anyone who loves Sci-Fi, should love Aeon Flux and anyone who loves Aeon Flux should have this movie. I give it a bias Five out of Five because I am a big fan of Aeon, and though I have been called a sexy woman myself I could only wish to be as sexy as Aeon Flux....She's the coolest!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Awesome Man!
Review: I"ve never seen the DVD because I didnt know it was out until today and find out its not made anymore DANG!!!Anyway Ive seen the VHS version and this is preety cool Show It is about this spy who nsame is well of course Aeon Flux she wares a Cod leather suit and she has all these Moves shes after this guy Somthing Goodchild As you can see Ive seen this VHS two years ago Dang!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: awesome
Review: i'm not big on the words, but it rocks hard... the dvd that is ... aeon flux's world twists ans turns you leaving you hanging on to every single second of this series ... little tip though check out ebay.com every once and again and you can find this dvd for a lot less then the hundred and something these people are trying to sell it for on here but beware of bootlegs : ) good luck

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not bad.
Review: It isn't as good as her days on Liquid TV where is was practically mindless violence with hardly any words, but there are still a few short skits on this video from then. I found the whole plot of the newer episodes boring and there isn't near enough action. I think that MTV went for a more appropriate animation for the younger audiences as the show progressed. You will definitely be able to tell the difference once you start falling asleep, then being woke up by the sound of gun fire from one of her Liquid Television skits. :)


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