Rating: 1.5 / 5
Reviewer: Marc
Composed of roughly equal parts James Bond, Victoria's Secret catalog, and sophomoric anime comedy, Agent AIKa it is unparalleled in its combination of half-decent dumb action flick and unrelentingly pervy underwear fetish video. It actually has a lot of potential--appealing characters, impressively "messy" action and plot progression, nice art, lots of action--but it blows it by being tremendously inconsistent. It swings between interesting and awful constantly, and even when it's good it's busy earning its reputation as the absolute pinnacle of panty peeping anime in every, single scene.
It's so far overboard the "parody" excuse is just that, and it's too relentless to ignore if you wanted to watch the rest of the movie with a straight face. Whether the constant bombardment adds up to an endlessly tasteless ordeal, a funny romp, or just guilty pleasure aplenty will depend entirely on your personal taste and sleaze-tolerance. I can't say it worked for me--just lots of wasted potential.
Wed Apr 07, 2010 10:50 am