This definitely won't be everybody's cup of tea it's interesting to watch the different styles bounce between each other and animation and the jazz music was actually kind of an interesting touch I like this movie though I know a lot of people won't like it I think it's just gonna be able to one's personal taste if you like it

it was fun take! Only a couple of the Anne Hathaway numbers felt a little "shoe horned in". I especially like the chorus of three folks who didn't quite recall all the details of the myths

Two parts to the film - songs, story 1. The choice of the songs is impressive, and it quite precisely fits the story running in the background 2. Story - Two parallel ones running simultaneously and confluence to a point in the end which was pretty amazing. The narrators seemed quite underinformed - deliberately or otherwise- about Ramayana which does annoy. The way they question characters is unheard in India and is mentally stimulating.

Some people might think I am not shedding enough light here, but yes, there is not one flawed note or one false button pushed in the one-hour-twenty-one-minutes long crowdpleaser 'Sita Sings the Blues' directed by Nina Paley. Not only does the diligent filmmaker express a distinctive voice through stunningly animated visuals, she also delivers sass and spunk by reinventing a classical epic in which the poet Valmiki expressed in an understatement a feminist and grounded, curvy and blazing, sad and optimistic character with right note and music. This film is a perfection. This gem shouldn't be missed at the cost of any movie this year and I recommend you just don't miss it. I go with five stars for Sita sings the Blues'. It's an inexplicable and brilliant triumph for cinema.

Grandiosa interpretación del Ramayana por parte de Nina Paley. La animación, la música, la historia, todo es fenomenal en esta película.

Boldly imaginative & narratively intricate animated musical. Fantastic!

Technically, Sita Sings the Blues is a wonderful achievement. It is an unconventional animated musical that was completely produced by one person over the course of 5 years. Also, it features three cleverly interwoven segments, involving unconditional love and being rejected by a soul mate. There are countless scenes that ooze creativity and are simply fun to watch and entertaining. However, the actual plot might not work as well as it should, because the actions and motivations of the characters are never relatable. The weak writing in the real-life scenes and the heavily truncated story of Ramayana also donâ(TM)t help in making the plot more accessible. Thus, itâ(TM)s a deeply personal and important movie that is more challenging than it should be. Full review: http://movie-discourse.blogspot.com/2019/03/sita-sings-blues-us-2008.html?view=flipcard

An absolute gem of an off beat cinema. Story of the same old Ramayana shown with superb animation and amazing music. Strictly for adults..

If you haven't seen this movie yet, do it. Hard to explain---easy to enjoy :)

I enjoyed it at first then it just became too boring, mainly because she sang each song from beginning to end. I thought that was unnecessary.

really weird depiction of the Ramayana. If someone watched this and had no previous understanding of the story then they would have no idea what was going on. The movie follows three different animated versions of the story, and one animated modern parallel, and absolutely none of it makes sense. One is just a girl singing and dancing about nonsense, and the animation only confuses, and the other two are different types of collages on screen, one with narration from people who intentionally disagree with each other, and the other has none at all. In addition, between each change in animation, (there are many) there are a ton of weird and trippy animations that have absolutely no relevance to the hard to follow plot as it is, and only further confuses those viewing. I was able to view this with a previous knowledge, but I was with friends who had no idea about the story, and came out of it only knowing the names of the "the blue guy and the singing girl."

creative and poignant animated film about the heartbreaks experienced by a Hindu goddess and a contemporary woman who share the universal pain and sadness that accompany the end of an intimate relationship.

Sita Sings the Blues is one of the oddest, and most ambitious animated films ever. What you have here is a movie almost entirely made by one person (Nina Paley) that features no less than 4 different styles of animation. If that wasn't crazy enough this movie also attempts to blend events that occurred in the writers life with events from the Ramayana (an epic tale from India), and the lyrics of jazz music from the 1920s. Just spelling that out sounds utterly nuts, and yet she pulls it off. The animation is unique in all its different styles, and while you'll see the same characters in more than one type of animation, they give each character a distinctive visual trait that carries over so you never lose track of what is going on. Perhaps the hardest part to understand are the scenes from Nina Paley's real life, it took most of the film before I started to connect the dots between the life of Nina and the legend of Sita. Now some may read this and think "Hey, I've never even heard of the Ramayana, how am I going to enjoy this movie?" Well, I hadn't heard of it either until I watched this movie, luckily there is a charming group of narrators who tell the story. They do it in a very fun, conversational style which makes you feel at ease, and keeps it simple to understand. However my favorite sequences are the moments when Sita breaks into song. These classic jazz/blues songs sung by Annette Hanshaw are simply marvelous, and I'm absolutely amazed by how perfectly they blend into the story. From what I understand, though, these songs are what created a lot of problems for Nina Paley. I'm telling this story 3rd-hand, so forgive any inaccuracies, but I have a very good reason for sharing it, so read on. Apparently, Nina created the film without clearing the rights to the music. When she then tried to license the film she realized there was no way she was going to be able to afford the royalties needed to get these songs in her movie, but they were essential to make the movie work. So, instead of giving up on Sita Sings the Blues, she decided to make it entirely free. By not charging to see it, and in fact sharing it freely for all, she somehow bypassed the requirement to pay royalties. So, I mention that history because what it means is this movie is 100% free to watch. You can view it right now, and I would highly recommend it. This movie is something that almost defies description, but delivers on everything it attempts, in ways I never expected. And let's face it you can't beat the price.

Pretty cool melding of a bunch of animation styles. I liked the score of (20s or 30s) ragtime blues. My favourite part were the three Indian narrator gods or whatever they were.

A lively and slightly mischievous take of epic Ramayana, Sita Sings The Blues plays on feminist, postmodern commentary on the said epic. The personal parallelism of Nina Paley's life also adds another layer to the story.

Not particularly entertaining and annoying at some parts.

This is just my personal opinion: Nina Paley needs to get over herself. This movie was kind of offensive,.. she should go to therapy or something instead of trying to mess with what is to so, very is deeply important and sacred. I decided to watch Sita Sings the Blues with the hope of seeing a condensed version of the Ramayana. I had low expectations of Nina Paley's attempt at portraying the story yet she still managed to disappoint me. I gave it two stars because it misinforms and pretends to be a portrayal of the Ramayana. It turned out to be somewhat of a mockery... perhaps in order to deceive others for unjustifiable gain from, for lack of a better term, the "intellectual property" of others. The actual Ramayana has many great life lessons in it. Despite that, Nina Paley somehow managed to share not even one life lesson in the film. She did however make a mockery of things at times. Frankly, I am kind of disgusted by the way she did that. I can kinda see why Nina got dumped... Also, the singing portions did get a bit tiresome at times. The visuals were sort of offensive. The commentary was also a bit offensive as well as ignorant and isolent. Why would Ms. Paley even make this a cartoon? Nina Paley is ridiculous. To those who think she did a good job, you should know that while you might've given it positive reviews to be culturally sensitive or something, the movie itself is lacking cultural sensitivity. Nina Paley needs to slow her role and control herself instead of "making a scene" and spoiling things that are important to people with her personal drama etc. I suspect Nina Paley made the film partially out of misplaced passive aggression and with a lack of regard for the many people's feelings. There were only maybe one or two things in the movie that I found to be potentially informative. I wish Nina Paley would have done a better job making this film because the Ramayana is a very important story. If Ms. Paley had spent more time focused on telling the story accurately and respectfully instead of trying to make it into a cartoon she could have made quite a contribution to the world. As of now, I think Nina cancelled out any potential good her film could do by what seems to be her being kind of a passive aggressive mocker... (maybe unintentionally). I think Nina Paley seems to have deceived people with this film that pretends to be a representation of the great epic the Ramayana. Maybe she can edit it to actually be respectful to the audience/Indian people/the World; and that would be a big step in the right direction. That and tone down the singing portions and remove all potentially offensive imagery.

Billed as "the greatest break-up story ever told", this is the story of Sita and Rama told in different ways, but primarily through love-sick blues. (The basics, according to the movie: Ram is a warrior-prince incarnation of Vishnu who is married to Sita; Sita is stolen by an evil king and desperately wants to get back to Ram, but then he can't trust her virtue after living in another man's house. ) I'm not a fan of blues, but it's so well used here. In fact, mixing the blues with Sita's story is a pretty brilliant cultural mashup. The use of different styles of animation to present different aspects of the story is a nice touch too (even though I didn't actually like all the styles-Sita looks a bit like Betty Boop when she's signing the blues). My favorite part is probably not the coolest part of the film; it's the 3 people trying to remember the story to explain it. They clearly value the story, but they also make fun of it a bit. It's especially amusing to listen to the 2 men interpret the story in a modern context and talk about how Sita should have just moved on because Ram didn't treat her well.

I saw and loved it. And I contributed to Nina at her web site. I give it 100%.

Among the very few animated movies that I loved :)