Lu Over the Wall

"Throughout the film, Yuasa's eye for vivid colours and slapsticky antics lead the way."

"The film has a scrappy, sometimes cheap look to it (characters look flat, like thin-lined Etch-a-Sketch drawings, superimposed over more colorful hand-painted backgrounds), for which it more than compensates via other strengths ..."

"The end-stretch is overlong, but the Flash animation style pops with colour, the music is fun, and off-the-scale creature cuteness abounds."

"The character renderings feel more rushed than the rich, warm backgrounds. What the film gains in energy, it loses in the kinds of expressive details that make two-dimensional figures seem like they breathe three-dimensional life."

"It is perhaps inspired by Miyazaki's Ponyo, but this doesn't have the same charm or lightness. It seemed overextended and self-conscious."

"Yuasa's bold imagery and sometimes convoluted storytelling defy the conventions of traditional animated filmmaking, but he is clearly an artist with an individual vision whose work offers something genuinely new and eye-catching."

"Too long, but a dazzling attempt to wrangle Ghibli themes into Yuasa's wacky world."