Origin is poo
First of all let me start by eliminating any pre-conceptions that you might have about me as a critic. I love anime. I think it is a great art form when it is in the hands of those capable. Such as Hayao Miyazaki, or Satoshi Kon.
This on the other hand was not a master work, nor was it an acceptable one.
Quite the contrary, this anime is in dire need of being thrown out of every store that sells it.
Plot. Again let me stress that i do enjoy anime. The plot is basically a really dummed down version of Princess Mononoke. The Forrest is pissed at the humans for living in a world where industry takes presidence over it. Over the course of the movie several people become trees...i'm not kidding here. Guns appear out of volcanoes. And finally characters jump from one location to the other seemlessly, eliminating any feeling of pacing.
Music. This is the only aspect of the movie that stopped me from switching the whole trashy specticle off, or kicking a hole through the screen.
Animation. The film looks like it was drawn by 5 year olds. locations are jumbled up like a horribly blender recipe, occasionally there was some ok use of CGI, HOWEVER. this is not enough to save the audience from this diarrhoea mess
Voice Acting. I cringed a little is the understatement of the century! The acting for the female character and the tree sprites were so weak it made me want to punch them in the face.
Overview: Generally a good laugh if you are pissing around And smoking lots of dope. However if you want some good animated works, stick to disney or Ghibli.
While 'Spirits of the Past' is an appropriate name a more apt subtitle for Origin would be 'The Deepest Bowels Of The Japanese Rectum'
Put simply dont waste 90 minutes of your life on this crap unless you are stoned!