{"id":18487,"date":"2026-03-17T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18487"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:07:12","slug":"junk-world-2025-takahide-hori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18487","title":{"rendered":"Junk World (2025, Takahide Hori)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t need the little robot guy from <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17015\">another movie<\/a> to get an origin story, but &#8220;weirdo pervert stop-motion&#8221; is one of my favorite genres, so this was great.  Starts with a military unit making their way out of enemy territory, then alternates between rewinding to the same actions from a different character perspective (they took to heart the criticisms that nobody understood what happened in the first movie) and crazily escalating the action\/stakes.  Kickass protector robot gets injured, rebuilds itself as cuddly robot, time travels to distant past, inspires teddybear-cat creatures to create a complex civilization, then sends daughter of the teddycat leader back to the past to protect the military guys inside a red ducky powersuit.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ducky streetfighters a Freddy-chested supermutant:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/junk1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/junk2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/junk3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t need the little robot guy from another movie to get an origin story, but &#8220;weirdo pervert stop-motion&#8221; is one of my favorite genres, so this was great. Starts with a military unit making their way out of enemy territory, then alternates between rewinding to the same actions from a different character perspective (they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,1251,454,590,3349],"class_list":["post-18487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-prequel","tag-robots","tag-stop-motion","tag-takahide-hori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18508,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487\/revisions\/18508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}