I couldn't stay in tune with the '30's style animation. I know it was supposed to be "artsy," but, in my opinion, they should have opted for more engaging graphics. I love Robin Wright, love the idea of the film, but it was just lost on me...DUH...maybe I'm too antiquated to appreciate this.
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On the contrary, the rotoscoping technique employed in Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly looks way trippier than most of the animated sequences in this film, and would have looked even tripper and more radical if they'd been used in this film.
Another thing to note is that the straight traditional animation has a rather jarring and overly-contrasting feel in this film relative to the filmed sequences, it really pulls you out of the experience and draws far too much attention to itself when this happens, but had the Rotoscoping Technique been utilised here it might've eased the transition between the two different "realities", if you will, and created a film that felt more whole, rather than the feeling that there were two separate films that were simply being spliced together.
Rotoscoping appears more mature as well, more mature than the Disney (albeit surreal) styled animation employed here. Perhaps then the public and the critics may have taken the film a little more seriously.