Remember that fight in Kill Bill, where Uma Thurman massacres the Crazy 88? Limbs fell off like dandruff and blood fountained from the wounds! RoboGeisha is like that scene, stretched to 90 minutes, starring a transforming cyborg geisha assassin out for vengeance. Everything about RoboGeisha is over-the-top—giant robots, acidic breast milk fired from lactating murderesses, and an army of sexy killers with blades popping out of every (and I mean every) body part imaginable. This is the cinematic mindfuck to shake you out of your seen-it-all doldrums. (Neptune, 1303 NE 45th St, thestranger.com/siff. 10 pm, $11.)
‘RoboGeisha’
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This is totally fun.
Well, except for two scenes that were a tad excessive.
I saw this at Midnight Adrenaline a couple weeks back. I went in hoping for some crazy mindblowing Asian wackiness in the vein of Dasapo Naughty Girls (shown at 2008’s SIFF, I think) or Aachi and Ssipak (also SIFF 2008), and I got something more SNL and less Takashi Miike.
It felt like a Westernized take on Japanese craziness refiltered through the Japanese eye, which make it so much less wacky.
But, it had some priceless moments…unfortunately they were far between for me.
So your complaint is it was too Japanese?