Event

Film: Welcome To the Space Show

With an intergalactic cast of thousands, director Koji Masunari's colorfully explosive debut feature sets a new high for visual spectacle and sheer inventiveness of character design. When Amane and her older cousin Natsuki find an injured dog in the woods, they discover that he is not a dog at all, but Pochi, an alien botanist sent to Earth to track down a rare and powerful plant. Before long, Pochi has whisked the kids away to a space colony on the dark side of the moon, an interstellar gathering place of humorous alien creatures, jellyfish spaceships, dragon trains, and if that weren't enough a theme song from UK pop anomaly Susan Boyle.

2011, 136 min, Japan, Dir: Koji Masunari, in English. Recommended ages: 7 and up.

"Evocative of Ghost in the Shell 2 by way of the Yellow Submarine" - TwitchFilm

Co-presented with the Portland Children's Film Festival