Detroit Metal City

Genre: Comedy

Language: Japanese

Director: Toshio Lee

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama (L: Change the World), Rosa Kato, Yoshihiko Hosoda, Yasuko Matsuyuki (Hula Girls), Gene Simmons

Runtime: 104 Min

Plot:

Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up "demon emperor" Johannes Krauser II. Although he hates the role and the things he has to do as a member of the band, he has a definite talent for it. Adapted from the hit Japanese comic book by Kiminori Wakasugi, the movie follows Negishi's antics as he tries to reconcile the two very different sides of his life and find out what it really means to achieve his dream.

Watched the movie on 19 March evening @ GV Plaza Sg with Sylvia.

From a pale, crouching, goofy, intelligent and mysterious to a cheery, pure, innocent, loved singing and always on the run, Kenichi successfully transform himself the clever ever L to the down-to-earth Negishi, a young but bear hopes of becoming a pop ballad singer.

Being optimistic and hopeful, Negishi remained as the lead singer of the death metal band, doing something which he did not like. It brings me into thinking that how many people out there is able to get to work on a job you really like. These days, you should be thanking God for having a job.

Even so, Negishi taught us something. If you are unable, not suitable, not required, to do something you really like, then do it the way you like. Since you can't change it, then change yourself. One day you might just like the job you never like.

A good movie if you need to laugh your heart out.And do wait till the last scene before leaving the cinema once the credits are out...

ah-deng says: 3½ / 5 Don't go around if you have your face painted like these death metal band members or you may just scare kids around.