This movie is great and funny. Kenichi as always playshis best and does a great job of his role as Krauser!A must see for heavy metal and Kenichi fans. Specialappearance by Gene Simmons.
Quite simply, this is a light, fun, satirical romantic comedy.On the outside this is an intriguing, albeit cliched story about a small town boy with aspirations to become a sappy bubble-gum pop idol. Unfortunately, he has to shelve his dreams to pay the bills, and take a job antithetical to everything (he thinks) he is - Death Metal Superstar. He lives a double life, one as a complete dork trying to fulfill his dream, get the girl next door, and make his small town family proud. The other, as his alter-ego Lord Krauser - bile spewing, cacophonous lead singer of a Death Metal band with an ever-growing following.Underneath it all, we've seen this cliched story of love/self-discovery a million times before. But the movie has does have a genuine charm to it, in large part because of the two leads. The male lead is an overblown dork - to the point that the movie comes off very much like a sitcom (Japanese Urkel?), him trying to keep his two lives separate and ineptly failing (insert favorite sit-com here) etc. The character does finally come to terms with his two separate lives in an epic Metal showdown with a nice cameo from Gene Simmons.Now, despite the oft-rehashed plot, sit-com conventions and over-the-top dorkiness, this movie has a genuine charm to it. He's such a dork, but you can't not sympathize with his predicament. Grappling with his evil alter-ego, a profession he despises, but needs to continue or return home to the farm to face the indignity of his failures in front of his family. The satire of the Death Metal scene/lyrics/antics is good fun, great turn of play by the devoted fans who play a Shaekeperan Chorus role.Nothing earth-shattering here, just a fun/silly, charming movie.Bear in mind I was not aware that this was Manga/Anime based until I got on Amazon to review it, so I really have no sense of what kind of fidelity it has to the source material.
