Cutie Honey

Can Cutie Honey find some junk food, save the world, and still make it to her day job on time?

Cutie Honey is a live action movie based on a Japanese manga/TV series/anime franchise. I’m not familiar with any of the previous work, so I won’t comment on how the movie may compares to it. This movie is an extremely silly, brightly-colored, comic-book romp. Anyone in the mood for a serious, thought-provoking film need not apply, but if you’d like some goofy super-heroine fun Cutie Honey might be your movie.

Cutie Honey had a low budget but the CG effects are very anime-like, and the fights are edited in a stylish way that works well with the silly tone and bright comic-book look. The results are amusingly garish and sometimes very pretty—this movie offers up some very nice eye candy.

Speaking of eye-candy, Cutie Honey is played by Eriko Sato. In addition to being cute and spending most of the movie in revealing outfits, she just manages to capture the essence of the role. She is ludicrously optimistic and cheerful, yet still adorable most of the time.

After an action-packed beginning the movie slows down quite a bit for the middle portion, which is really my only complaint. Things pick up again towards the end, and you’ll even be treated to some musical bits along the way.

Cutie Honey is cute, goofy, mindless fun. There are definitely worse ways to spend an hour and a half.