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Four hundred years in the future and the world has changed
for the worst, oppression is everywhere and only a few stand
against it. Aeon Flux is a leather clad babe with all the
reflexes of a panther and the dress code of a BDSM fetishist.
Alone, she fights against the system and injustice wherever
she finds it. She fights and she dies...
There
is little doubt that Peter
Chung's Aeon Flux was an important show,
it allowed a whole generation of both viewers and animators
to move away from previous animated shows more traditional
constraints. Without the ground breaking visuals of Aeon,
it's less likely that we would have seen other great shows
like Tartakovsky's
Clone
Wars.
If you haven't seen this show before (and why not, where have
you been?), then you might initially be surprised as to just
how graphically it's been stripped down. There is limited
light and shadow and very often detail is barely hinted at,
stylistically, with its cleanliness of line work, it remains
very reminiscent of Moebius's work in the French magazine
Metal Hurlant.
This
three disc box set will come as a godsend to any fans of the
show, or anyone who missed it on the first run. Sure its been
released to cash in on the new movie, but I would suggest
that if you really want to know how Aeon Flux should
be presented then you invest in the animated show before going
to see the feature. The discs display, full on, Aeon's sinewy
sensuality to the max in all of the ten half-hour shows. Whilst
there is a kind of story arc over the various episodes, they
are really there to be enjoyed individually. Some fans of
the original shorts may bemoan the lessening of the bloody
violence that so epitomised Aeon, however this has
been replaced with a more detailed look at the sensuality
of the character, and that can't be a bad think for a leather
bound babe.
The
three DVD's in this collection have pretty much everything
that a fan could hope for. The first two discs contain all
of the half-hour shows which followed on from the visually
impressive but plot obscured shorts which had originally appeared
on MTV. They have been fully restored and nearly all come
with commentaries from the shows creators. Audio is 2.1 which
made the old boom box happy, though a 5.1 treatment would
have been the icing on the cake. You get a plethora of choices
for subtitles, some of the languages I didn't even recognise
so there must just about be one of everyone out there. The
third disc is where all the goodies hide.
First off you get the original pilot show with a commentary
by Peter Chung and Drew Neumann with commentary subtitle in
English or French; this is enlightening as it has them looking
back at the genesis of the show. Quickly following on from
this is the original five shorts that were created for MTV's
Liquid Television, though in this case as the shows are so
short (no pun intended) they tend to be much more of a case
of style over story telling. For fans of the original they
are priceless as this is Aeon with all the blood and
killing that you could ever want.
To
finish off the extras disc they have kindly included other
work by Peter Chung though I guess for contractual reasons
there is no Rugrats episodes, shame, I loved that show,
but what you do get is the MTV loaded promo, the Aeon Flux
CD-ROM commercial and the Honda Coupe mission advert. Rounding
the disc off is a selection of Liquid Television shorts, which
whilst interesting are of variable quality.
Visually,
I can't see any fans of the show being disappointed, the animation
has had the full digitally re-mastered treatment, so will
never look as good again on television. The colours are vibrant
and sharp with a high level of detail but no colour bleed
or artefacts.
All in all, a must have box set for fans of animation, Sci-Fi
and leather clad babes with attitude.
 
Charles
Packer
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