At times this movie was rather enjoyable, at other times it got to be a tad tedious, and still other times you stare at the screen in amazement thinking to yourself that this movie is really messed up. Welcome to the movie "Happiness of the Katakuri's" which is the title I bought this movie under. A movie about a family trying to make an inn work in the middle of nowhere and getting no customers, and then finally they get their break and they have a string of customers only to have tragedy strike again and again. Some scenes are really funny, some scenes make no sense this movie runs a gambit of being this and that during its runtime. Then there are scenes that really make me wonder what the heck they were thinking, mainly all the claymation scenes which they did not even really attempt to make those look real. Granted seeing the dog in claymation was funny and I am guessing they did it because I know that final scene would have been very difficult using real actors. Still, that opening scene with the creature in the soup seemed a tad pointless to the whole movie. The musical numbers were somewhat good, usually the ones involving the bodies and such were best, the one involving the husband and wife seemed a bit to long and really was not all that funny. So an okay movie, loved the discovery of the sumo guy, the scene of the family that looked sickly and needed cord, and the wound the son got in the end. Maybe a bit of reworking and taking a bit of runtime off this movie would have made it more entertaining as a whole instead of having a few dead spots that brought this one down a notch.
Review of The Happiness of the Katakuris
