Clocking in at 105 minutes, Twilight of the Cockroach’s Roger Rabbit-like mix of anime and live action is hardly a fun, quirky movie about adorable anthropomophized cockroaches. In fact, it’s hard to tell what the movie is trying to say.
Naomi and Ichiro live in a roach’s Eden. Their society shares an apartment with an absolute slob of a human. Whenever he eats, there’s always a ton of leftovers and he doesn’t care too much if the roaches literally have a party in front of him.
It all seems so blissful that even Naomi and Ichiro are about to get married any day now… until the human gets a girlfriend and we all know women are neat freaks. After an unprovoked attack on roach-kind, on the fated wedding day no less, the roaches continue to let their guards down, resulting...