This movie has an amazing style somewhere between Sin City and Edward Scissorhands, but it’s plot and execution is so wildly ill-advised that it’s surprising it got made. It serves as a warning to anyone attempting to make a film that purports to be for children in its intellectual property, style, and tone, but insists on including mistreatment and exploitation of women in a gritty gangster plot.
Content warning: female nudity
Closest comparison: It’s like The Maltese Falcon by way of Speed Racer (2008).
Setting: Noir
Plot: Detective
Tone: Adventure