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Year of the Fish
Directed by
David Kaplan
2007
1h 36m
Animation
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Fantasy
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6.3
58%
57%
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A rotoscope-animated modern-day Cinderella story set in the underbelly of New York's Chinatown.
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Cast of Year of the Fish
Tsai Chin
Mrs. Su
Ken Leung
Johnny
Randall Duk Kim
Auntie Yaga / Old Man / Foreman
An Nguyen
Ye Xian
Hettienne Park
Hong Ji
Constance Wu
Lucy
Corrine Hong Wu
Katty
Year of the Fish Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Written and directed by Reginald Harkema with a sharp eye toward the paradoxes of fighting The Man in the 21st century.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
Apart from the debut of appealing An Nguyen and a pet fish instead of a magic slipper, there's nothing particularly innovative here, and the film's seedy milieu ensures that it's anything but a kid-friendly fairy tale.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
David Kaplan's sweet, if superficial, fairy tale won't change the world, but it makes nice use of its setting (Chinatown) and visual style (rotoscope animation).
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
An adult fable told with childlike simplicity, Year of the Fish updates an ancient Chinese version of the Cinderella story with imagination, charm and just the right amount of sweetness.
NPR.org
Bob Mondello
Kaplan keeps the story breezy and brisk, and provides his down-to-earthily modern fairy tale with an appropriately other-worldly visual style.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The director-writer, David Kaplan, is able to hold our attention, and the film's unusual look lends a magical feeling.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
Too raw for kids and too simplistic for adults.
AV Club
Tasha Robinson
To some degree, it's trying to find the magic in the everyday, but the attempts to ground it are cringe-inducing and problematic.
Boxoffice Magazine
John P. McCarthy
The result [of the animation technique] is similar to the look of Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly, but much softer and more fluid. It's ideal for the storybook plot and quite dazzling at times.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
Year of the Fish is an eye-opener for those unfamiliar with the tribulations many immigrants endure on their road to American citizenship.
TheDivaReview.com
Diva Velez
Charming and dreamlike, Year of the Fish wrings every dime out of its low budget with wonderful performances that are by parts adorable, sharp and sweet and certainly worth a look.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Although writer/director David Kaplan attempts to elevate his amateur narrative attempt with the same rotoscoping animation technique that Richard Linklater used to great effect with "Waking Life" and "A Scanner Darkly," the effect comes across as overwro
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Without the animation layered on top of the action, the film would be thoroughly lacking in dramatic interest.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
HBO's 1990s cartoon series Happily Ever After multiculturalized traditional fairy tales, and Year of the Fish may as well be a live-action episode of the now-defunct program.
Village Voice
Vadim Rizov
Year of the Fish is the kind of really bad movie it takes a lot of misplaced conviction to make.
Variety
John Anderson
That the film is animated gives it an appropriately magical feel, but it can't save the story from being drowned in devices and stereotype.
Oregonian
Stan Hall
A re-imagining of Cinderella set in a massage parlor in New York's Chinatown, David Kaplan's film juxtaposes grime and exploitation with winsomeness and superstition.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
That kind of broadness plays fine in Disney movies, but feels deeply when applied to the world of undocumented sex workers, urban poverty and economic exploitation that looks a lot like 21st-century slavery.
New York Press
Mark Peikert
Year of the Fish does feature more than enough clever moments and ideas to compensate for forcing audiences to sit through yet another tale of a woman who needs a man to rescue her from a life of drudgery.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
John P. McCarthy
Unfortunately, much of the novelty in 'Year of the Fish' is eclipsed by ethnic stereotypes and an oppressive score
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