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Review title: Two stars for animated dogfights
Product review: Yep, those animated dogfights are spectacular. The rest of the movie is a bust.I like slow contemplative movies, but only when there is substance in the film to contemplate. The whole premise for this movie fails the suspension of disbelief test.I would have enjoyed watching Ghost in the Shell for the umpteenth time more than I got out of seeing Sky Watchers once. I suppose it is worth a Netflix rental just to see the dogfights. You can safely skip everything else.Also, there's a discontinuity that I found odd, some may find jarring. There is a tremendous amount of realistic texture and detail in the backgrounds, the furniture, the airplanes, the clouds, etc., which I assume is a triumph of computer aided animation technique. The human characters appear as if they are traditional cheap hand-drawn animation cells -- with minimal detail and texture in the skin, clothing, etc. This is a flaw -- if you're going to go for hyper-realism in animation, then go all the way.
