Aachi and Ssipak

That does look pretty damn strange, but I liked the style of a lot of it. The character-intro freeze-frames were cool. The character design actually reminds me most of RUGRATS... except now they're in some post-apocalyptic wasteland action movie. Ha!

Saw it at Fantastic Fest a couple years ago.

Pretty fucking awesome.

Yeah, I own this one. I love popping it in from time to time and showing friends some the action sequences. They usually get a kick out of it especially the ones who enjoyed Dead Leaves.

The story is all over the place and isn't very good nor are the characters but I love the visual style and the crazy over-the-top action sequences.

This movie's almost a far superior version/parody of WONDERFUL DAYS, the technically impressive yet creatively dire mega-budget Korean animated feature from 2003 that was about a segregated-by-caste future society that's powered by the waste of the poor. WONDERFUL DAYS was supposed to be the classy standard bearer for the Korean animation industry but it flopped big time. It was a film made of elaborate combinations of live action, CGI, stop-motion, and cel animated elements with reworked scenes ripped off from Mamoru Oshi and Hayao Miyazaki films and one seriously awful English language song that they couldn't just play once. I have to suspect that the intent here was, at least in part, to literally shit all over that film, a notorious and self-impressed would-be crossover smash turned boondoggle in Korean animation which richly deserves to get the piss taken out of it.

ACHII AND SSIPAK doesn't live up to its two phenomenal action set-pieces, but that's a damn high bar to clear. It's a fun, rude, well-made little animated comedy that aims low and pretty much succeeds at what it sets out to do. Gotta love the "tracking device removal" scene. One of the better Korean animated films, for certain - but I wish that statement meant more than it ultimately does.