This is where our crack team of misfits and other assorted criminals come in, as they’ve undergone surgeries you wouldn’t inflict on an “upstanding” member of society that have infused each of them with the powers of a different insect, activated by injecting a chemical into their neck. Turns out that the cockroaches have gone through an accelerated evolution over the last few centuries as they’ve worked to make Mars hospitable, now standing seven feet tall and very much humanoid. Once it comes time to clean up the roachy mess that is Mars so humans can move in your typical rag tag group of misfits and outcasts is assembled, strapped into body armour (minus helmets because you’ve gotta show off all the glorious hair cuts) and shot off into space with a minimum of information about what they’ll find once they get there. The rough plot is that five hundred-ish years ago, humans sent a whole load of cockroaches up to Mars to begin the colonization process, preparing the red planet for humanities eventual pilgrimage. It truthfully is one of the strangest modern films I’ve seen in the last little while, and almost doesn’t have any reason to look as good as it does or have as much fun as it’s having but here it is in all its roachy glory and I’m all for it. Good, now amplify that 100X and that’s roughly where Terra Formars lands on the what the fuck scale. Picture how weird you think this movie is. The fact that Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) helmed this absurd film should be your first indicator that this isn’t just some run of the mill, (bad) effects driven mess but something with a bit more depth and, to be completely honest, weirdness to it. What I do know a lot about (some might say too much) though are midnight movies, and this adaptation of Terra Formars checks out as certifiably of the midnight movie breed, so here we are. I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t really know much about anime or manga, beyond Akira, Ninja Scroll, Ghost in the Shell and the other “standards” so I can’t really tell you how accurate or faithful this live action adaptation is to the original source material.
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