Chicago 10 (2007)

Rated R for language and brief sexual images

Runtime: 1 hour and 40 minutes

Genre: Animation, History, Drama, War and Documentary

Director: Brett Morgen

Writer: Brett Morgen

Actors: Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte, Mark Ruffalo, Roy Scheider, Liev Schreiber, James Urbaniak, Jeffrey Wright and Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Box Office: $177,490

Feedback: It wasn't the most popular film, but it does have a facinating historical event that happen in the 1960's.

The characters are really well prepared. The dialogue does have good parts in some ways. I did find them funny and entertaining, especially Judge Julius Hoffman (Rob Scheider). He sounds a lot like an old man in his 70's, although it maybe his last animated film since he passed away in 2008. I did like the lawyers arguing against each together. The defendents are fine, but they are speaking to fast and don't find them funny, except Bobby Seale. He wants to speak to the judge, but gets denied so many times and cannot be keep his anger under control.

The animation does might have a slight errors, but not terrible. I found that the 24 frames per second is at it's standard. It might have been the the sexual imagery and cartoony moments that get a little distracting a few times or gets confusing at times. One scene, Allen Ginsburg was floating in the air from the meeting room with the park manager and a few slides that show a bunch of naked people from the park. I also find that the animation might have different variations.

The footage are about the people and places that were shot from that has the right amount. It might have not have been animated the whole movie, but it's the whole point of a documentary that helps the audience understand. Although the editing does get a little confusing at times.

The background takes place mostly in a courtroom called the Everett M. Dirksen Courthouse. I found that location to be the biggest locations of the whole film.

Overall, this is a really interesting idea to make an animated documentary. Although it may not have much time left to animate the whole movie, it does slow the pacing down a bit with every single montage that was used. I'm expecting this to have more animated scenes with more characters that has to be three dimensional, rather than making it two dimensional.

Also, there is a website that I found about the chicago 7 trials and it has list of witnesses and defendent's transcript to the films that were used.

Website:

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/Chicago7/Chi7_trial.html

Overall Verdict:

Story 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (7.5)

Character/Dialogue 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (7)

Animation/Footage 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (6.5)

Pacing/Timing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (3.5)

Background/Sets 0 1 2 3 4 5 (4)

Music/Audio 0 1 2 3 4 5 (4)

Camera/Editing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (3.5)

36.5/50 7.2/10