Overview: Mankind can no longer reproduce because of gene manipulation aimed at making life longer. The clones ruling the bottomless underworld may have become fertile.

Parton is selected to go on a mission through a subterranean labyrinth crawling with monsters to secure humanity’s future.

DVD Verdict: The setup is that mankind has been immortal for a long time, but at the expense of our capability to reprocreate. When a pandemic starts to kill people en masse, there is a sudden need to replenish the population, so our hero is sent underground, among the marigan to find the one creature they could identify as having genitalia.

The marigan have been living apart from humans for a very long time and have built their society, although many of them are wild. They don’t follow the usual patterns of species, but will instead evolve in wildly different ways.

This is the world into which our hero is plunged. He loses his body immediately and his head is placed into a robotic body, which brings its own set of difficulties.

OK, sure, the plot may not always stay on course, and there are definitely times where you wonder just what the director was thinking by adding it to the roll out, but that aside, I did enjoy it.

The weirdness of the world does carry the film pretty far with the monster design reminding me of something, but I’m not sure of what. Maybe some demonic beings from Hellblazer or something?

The world is claustrophobic and unfamiliar. Dangers seem to lurk everywhere, but at the same time some people have been living there for hundreds of years, so you can apparently get accustomed to it. And yet whilst the world certainly is artificial, it also seems to grow like some sort of a living being.

No one seems to have any idea about how big it actually is or how things actually work. Certain people just have found themselves working on jobs, even though they might not really know why those jobs are even there. It’s all quite wondrous and at the same time confusing, and yet none the less intriguing.

So, all in all, if you are one of those people who want a cohesive story, this may not be for you, but if you love eye-opening visuals combined with the art of stop-motion animation, well my friend, come on in, as this seven-years-in-the-making viewing extravaganza is mighty fine! [H7]

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