我买的DVD上一个老外Ken Eisner对tokyo godfathers的评论介绍，现摘录其中的评论部分
With its masterful grasp of comedy,pathos ,social commentary and mystical weirdness,TOKYO GODFATHERS takes anime to a whole new level.
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The picture's mood is buoyed by a jazzy ,tartly quacking music score and surprising tilts into visual poetry,complete with elegant calligraphy--Hana occasionally stops to invent haikus that comment on the action.And it is given increasing substabce by the serch itself,which forces each of the threesome to confront uncomfortable parallels with his or her own family history.Connections double back and overlap,reaching almost metaphysical proportions,but the helmer keeps all these elements well within the realm of human possibility and narrative satisfaction.Despite Gin's protests that,"we're homeless bums,not action-movie heroes,"there is a significant amount of excitingly heroic business in the final third of GODFATHERS,which is timed just right at a packed 90 minutes.Color palette of dark violet-blues,drab olives,and dusty golds and pinks is memorable,as well.The picture could easily be dubbed,of course but distinctly Japanese qualities of the voice-particularly Emari's guttural,embittered-Samurai growling as the hard-drinking Gin-would be sorely missed.
这篇文章原登载在variety.com
我在网上搜时找到一个网页
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/tokyogodfathers/都是美国各大报纸媒体对《东京教父》的评价链接，一部分文章的出处需要注册才能看到原文，嫌麻烦可以看看引用的关键句。溢美之词一片，至少他们不会拍一个日本人的马屁吧，或者是无专业水平信口胡说。
虽说意见各自保留，但那些具有参考价值的文章已经可以驳斥主楼的标题了。
唉，叹气叹气。赞《千年女优》而对《东京教父》无感觉的人恐怕很大原因是不喜欢《东京教父》的题材，但是现实化的主题背后的故事同样有不少戏剧性的特征呀……奇怪的是我却对《千年》的苦恋麻木，果真是年纪渐长……
