opinions on "a scanner darkly" art style

http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/ascannerdarkly.html

How do you feel about this? To be specific, how do you feel about heavily rotoscoped or motion-captured animation? It always seems like motion capture gone horribly wrong to me. It's almost as if all the characters are wearing someone else's clothes.

The new Appleseed movie and the Polar Express movie also suffered from this same perplexing creepiness, IMO.

Good thing? Bad thing? Your opinion?

I can't say I like this example of trying to make the animation "more lifelike" This does seem more like they painted over the film image.

I know that in the making of the new Appleseed movie they used a different motion capture that made the movements more fluid but kept the animation look. The trailer scenes I have seen so far look good.

The only motion-captured animation that I've seen that looks like animation is a show called Fire and Ice by Ralph Bakshi/Frank Fazetta productions.
The whole show was shot in real life and turned into a animated movie using the real life shots to lay out the action and you can see the life like way they move on screen.
This new stuff does not look right, all the actors look dead in this new stuff, It's like there from the night of the living dead or something.
I hope it does not do very well in the movie houses so they don't make any more of them!!!
Roy

That Scannerdarkly looks more like they filmed live action and put it through some Photoshop filters. With the technology today it seems like it would be a huge waste of time doing an effect like is shown in that clip by hand.
A few Disney movies have used rotoscoping, such as The Little Mermaid when they did the ships, and I can understand why in that circumstance. It would be very difficult to hand draw something so precise and linear. But in the most recent Disney ones, like Treasure Island, they just use computers to do it for them and create wire models. In my opinion the hand drawn rotoscoping looked a lot better than the computer effects, but Disney animated movies have really gone down hill in the last few years and they have even scrapped the whole hand animation department, which I think is a complete shame.

Thumbs down, Ebert..