Reviews
Utsukushiki sei no dendôshi: Rei Rei (1993)
animae craziness for adults
In this Japanese animated presentation, a big-breasted, ethereal Goddess of Love and her impish servant visit Earth in two half-hour segments, helping humans with their love lives. Her reasons for this are kind of hokey and basically trivial-- something to do with the position of the moon. Basically, it's an hour long romp featuring plenty of weird, not-too-racy sex scenes (compared to some other hardcore animae porn thats out there anyway), and some laughs that appeal to both the high and low brow. In the first segment, a young girl shuns the love of a gawky suitor in favor of an older female doctor with sinister intentions. What ensues? An attempted murder and a mystical change of gender, of course. In the second segment, an overly shy and withdrawn young boy cannot get over his fear of intimacy and women in general. What ensues this time? A surreal and funny parody of Nintendo games and a scene in which the teenage boy in transformed into the water in his girlfriend's bathtub. Annoying animae cliches are all over this movie: irritating voice overs (where do they find these people, and why do the voices never seem to match the characters' personalities?), city scenes where everyone looks caucasian but the writing on all the the billboards in the backgrounds are in Japanese, and those weird freeze frame action shots. But there is plenty of wity campy and sexy humor in "Rei Rei"that makes the movie an interesting and unique standout in regards to animae and animation in general.