Not a big fan.
I just watched Sita sings the blues. It was okay. Ill list out some of the things i didn't like and some that i did.
Likes:
-The humor - The commentary of the puppets was top notch and i enjoyed most of the humor sprinkled through out the film
-The soundtrack- I enjoyed The music portions a lot.
-The way the story was told (filling in the blanks of the bio parts with the Indian stories)- very well done, It was what kept me from turning the movie off. If was clever and had a bit a humor. With out sinking to the depths of adult humor.
-Color palette-Very colorful It made the lacking character designs pop, giving them some sense of design. Each Palette for each portion of the film works.
Dislikes
-The animation- Completely flat, And sick of animators using "it's the style" excuse. Flash has really crippled animation. The cut paper style of animating works for the shadow puppets portion of the movie, but it being used through out the film was a bad idea. The hand draw animation was just bad, If she waned to get the "real life" aspect across she could of sketched it with pencil not use vectors. Sketching in vector looks horrible every time. This just happen to not beanimated very well and have bad design.
-the character designs- There is a way to make a simple character look appealing , and its not using the primitive shapes in flash. Again It worked for the puppet portion, but the rest of the film really lacked appealing character designs. She just used the same design over and over for different characters. Boring and repetitious.
-the city designs - No sense of design what so ever. There is a way to design something to make it look like a mess but have it make sense and look appealing.
- the whole rotoscope scene -In my mind can completely be removed actually I completely fast forwarded this part. I understand it was suppose to be her anger and disappointment that her man that she love left her. It went on way too long, probably because she was short on time for a full feature film. Plus it was rotoscoping, BAD vector rotoscoping with masked out patterns. Had it been done well and not so long I wouldn't of by passed it completely.
-the intermission scene- Again another fill in, Because she needed filler to stretch the animation to feature length. I completely skipped this part as well. Reminded me of animation class and students running too short for the given animation project would put a complete 5-1 counter and intro to their animation. Waste of Time and insult to intelligence.
This was just my opinion,
5 out of 10