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I’ve seen a lot of weird Japanese animation, but this is one of the weirdest. I sat my wife and kids down in front of the TV to watch it and everything started off OK. Then the raccoons came on the screen and started transforming. That was strange, but not that strange. It was then that I noticed something odd between the legs of the male raccoon characters. It wasn’t until I saw it again a few times that I realized what it was – a scrotum. I said to my wife, “Did you see that?” We both looked again and I said, “Is that what I think it is??” We then realized we had seen the first testicles shown in a Disney film. Fortunately the kids didn’t notice. But it got weirder from there.
As the movie progressed, an older male raccoon asked all the other male raccoons to sit on a large red carpet. The carpet then transformed and folded up between the male raccoon’s legs. Yes, he transformed his scrotum into a giant carpet. Again, I said, “Was that what I thought it was?!?” It got weirder from there. Later in the film, a bunch of raccoons start flying in formation to attack the humans. Their testicles then swell up to about 10 feet in diameter and they dropped out of the sky and flattened the humans with their massive balls. After landing, one of the warriors proceeded to swing his large scrotum around knocking over humans in a fight. I frankly couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I was simultaneously amused, baffled, repulsed, and at a loss for words.
Admittedly, the whole scrotum thing is a small part of the movie…so to speak. But there are other bits of the animation that were off. In several scenes we see raccoons flattened by trucks followed by shots of their bodies lying in pools of blood on the road. It’s realistic, but not appropriate for every child to see. In another scene, a couple of kids are seen looking at a pornographic magazine. When they drop it, you get a full view of what they were looking at. I believe they are the first boobies intentionally shown in a Disney film. There’s a whole cultural thing going on here where these things are acceptable in Japan but not in all parts of America. Still, parents should be aware that they are there. There’s also a bit cultural gap in the story, too. Without knowing the mythology of raccoons in Japan or the history of urban development in Tokyo in the 1960’s, a lot of the significance of the story wears off. It’s hard to appreciate the message of conservation when you’re scratching your head over how weird everything is. Instead it ends up being both bizarre and boring.
It’s not all bad, though. There’s one hilarious scene where the raccoons try to scare the humans out of their forest. They do so by pretending to be spooks and monsters and the results are very funny. In another cool scene, the raccoons put on a parade of ghosts and goblins in the sky in one of the most imaginative scenes I’ve seen in animation in a long time (not counting the scrotum battle). The animation is generally quite impressive. Some of the cooler scenes involve shots of the raccoons in their more realistic, natural form (without Volkswagen sized testicles….sorry, couldn’t resist). It’s impressive animation, but the content is a bit off.
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