Chandra Septiadi well firstly, good job to the production team and casts in creating this movie. I will just point out a few critics from fellow animation lover Also I am not going to compare the animation to Japanese anime and Ghibli, because its just unfair right now to put them in the same place right now.1. Casts not done right; this is a huge fatal flaw from this movie. Not casting at least professional actors can cost a film a lot. The Yumna character for example is Maudy Ayunda, she is by no account is a professional actress and I'll have to say I just met my expectation right about her....she sucked. A lot of other characters except for Musa and Danu (who is unexpectedly good) just overdid everything so much.2. Story lines are very short and a lot of moments are uninteresting and unnecessary. They cut through every story so much with so little details. I can say that 70% of the movie just bored the hell out of me, and it's only 99 minutes?!!3. Last one is character development; everything is so sudden for me. Danu turns good and ready to sacrifice himself for a boy he barely knew even though he previously tried to kill him?! The best character in which I voted for mostly is surprisingly that balding English officer, the voice-acting wasn't that good, but at least I can understand where he comes from and his purpose for doing what he does....although the plot for him is surprisingly badOverall, I wouldn't say this movie is bad, but it's worth the watch...especially if you're Indonesian :). Please refrain from rating this movie so high even though its not all that.

housebad TBH, If you just want to appreciate the movie because of Indonesia, just watch it and highly recommended "JUST ENJOY THE MOVIE!". But, if you want good Action, Adventure movie (as the genre said), you will be disappointed. Only CGI and 'fun factors' that you can enjoy 100%. But for the story? You can't expect too much from 'NEWBIE' director and writers.The staffs must be thanked to the watchers who knows the history about that year events especially the 'real' Battle of Surabaya incident itself, so at least they can tell something like "hmm.. this event, I know this", "hmm.. that soldier, I read about him".(1) This is just big filler, I was expecting, "is this a spin- off/side-story of 'Battle of Surabaya'?". (2) They make the existence of "Kipas Hitam" is pretty useless. (3) The treats given to Musa are so freaking low, not explain to much "why does Kipas Hitam want him?". I don't see anything that makes Musa is a big treat for "Kipas Hitam" there. (4) Some deaths are unreasonable, you never get the feeling when they passed away. (darn, except the Yunma's death! She dead for nothing, sacrifice her life for Musa? For what reason? Come on, she is a good girl! Don't waste her life even on movie!) The genre was 80% wrong, "Action, Adventure", but the actions are always *....* it should be "Drama, Comedy". Well, people say that "this is the start for Indonesia animation". Except they are really serious in this industry, they can 'gambling' make the 24 episodes TV series for this half- baked movie.

ariezaakbary As the "I" in "IMDb" doesn't stand for "Indonesia" i guess I have to be fair and try to focus on its quality, mostly its animation quality. also a bit spoiler on 7th and 9th point.1. This animation feature is a serious offender for Newton's laws of motion. Seriously. A few source i read mentioned that animators actually has to learn proper physics (mainly Newton's laws of motion related) or hire a physics consultant to make sure things move as it is. I'd say that whenever you see something moving in 2D animation, something just doesn't feel right; be it human, or objects. There are parts when it uses cell shaded 3d animation instead, and that might be the only decent ones, from the perspective of Newton's law of motion. Speaking about perspectives....2. This animation feature is another serious offender on perspectives. Whenever you see someone standing with their foot shown on screen and with a background, you'll see that "what? is he/she even standing". This might be a reason why most of standing characters with backgrounds is shown in a bit close up, so that the feet isn't shown. but on some scenes when someone is running/walking/standing, it just doesn't feel right. The best part to see this is to find that scene where someone is walking up/down a stair, you'll see like the animated character and background doesn't look well aligned.3. Another thing it seriously offends is human anatomy. This, combined with physics and perspectives is amazingly... offensive:As mentioned before, it makes movements, most of them, unnatural. you can see correctly "that is not how you sit to a chair" "that is not how you move your shoulder" "that is not how you jump" "that is not how you fall". Some extreme issues is that a movement is only animated with less than 10 frame/second, and it is a slow movement with weird anatomy. combined with perspective, you'll see that characters looks completely different from different PoV, at some part, heads looks totally distorted with head changing size a few times in 1 same shot, misplaced eyes/ears on different PoV, and characters doesn't look like holding what he/she is holding in the scene (the most visible item for this error are steering wheel and rifles).4. I'd say that most voice acting are either fine or good enough.... but SFX and BGM is also another part with huge errors. 4-8 running step sound for 1 step movement on screen, for a few shots in more than 2 scenes. It also tried to hard to switch mood with BGM, but a sudden intro with huge volume to force a mood (which is supported with OK voice acting but animated like 3 points above) felt more like being forced. It'd need a smoother transition on BGM. Also some part suddenly had lyrics, I see 1 or 2 of them is "product placement" for a certain singer, but lots of them are just like being forced to chew and gulp something.5. Continuity error. Lets just mention it with: When you sit on a muddy paddy field, there must be mud marks on your butt. Yet it is missing from the next scene.6. Lots of model and model+animation error. Lots of soldiers are copy pasted. There is a scene where a character rips a banana leaf and if you ever seen a banana tree, you'll know that it doesn't work that way. 7. History errors, ranging from some more historical event details to wrong object design (mainly electric pole). This is very nitpick topics, but there is one at the very start.... The Yamato Hotel Incident is a bit inaccurate. Then If I remember correctly this Incident is written as "3 months before Battle of Surabaya" though it should be less than 2 months until that Battle of Surabaya.8. Jokes are.... cheap, but I guess it is well adjusted to its audience's taste.9. It was supposed to be a history feature about November 10th Battle of Surabaya. Yet instead it add element of secret Japan-made Indonesian Ninja sub-plot which is nowhere in history records. And there is no actual scene from November 10th Battle of Surabaya. The Battle of Surabaya is not in the movie titled "Battle of Surabaya"And these are just examples of longer list i don't even remember anymore hours after coming out from the theaterSoooo, yeah good luck on the 2nd project, lets hope it would be better so that future work will have better benchmark.

Watcher Reader So, I just watched this movie with my friend who is avid anime fan. It wasn't something we expected. But it goes well in some parts of movie.The Story:For almost half of the movie, we see main characters interacting in sort of romance, not in war except the day of war happened. We were expecting to see high-pace action movie from start till end though. And BoS apparently revolved around the main characters with supporting characters who have different purpose.The CastThe odd thing we felt that the main cast talk like Jakartan not Suroboyoan (the setting where the event happened) except for some additional cast that gives some comical relief for the movie. It takes time to listen Indonesian language in animation movie but it supposed to be more depicting local accent. I am sure the English version is going to be fit than Indonesian dub. Its like listening sinetron (tv opera soap ) dialog line in anime. It supposed to be better, but yeah.. I know this is the first step of Indonesia animation development. The Audio:The musical score and effect was convincing and can be plus for this movie. Dialog line aren't fit but some cast could play very well. It takes time to get used with Indonesian dialogue where we get used with Anime. And background music and soundtrack, I expected some old songs in the era were remade and not only typical modern pop song where I thought isn't really fit.The Graphic:Superb drawing with 3d background, its eye porn for us. But, we take a closer that main characters animation movement looked stiff when they talk or in action. The Fun:Kid may love this and so adults. Even though in war, you cant see any blood. The message is great. No glory in war. And yet the ending... people would love it. Its good to bring kids to watch this movie and see their reaction. The Rating: 7/10