Director Eichiro Hasumi
Staring Ryosuke Yamada, Masaki Suda, Maika Yamamoto, Kanna Hashimoto, Seishiro Kato, Kang Ji-Young
Rated Unclassified 15+
Score 4.5/6

Assassination Classroom follows Class 3-E, a ragtag group of students who are tasked with assassinating a seemingly invincible yellow tentacled alien monster. The alien monster also happens to be their teacher and he is more than happy to train his students, encouraging them every day to find new ways to catch him – if they don’t get him by graduation, he will destroy the earth.

Okay, I know that I’m running a little behind for my reviews for the JFF but somewhere I along the line, I thought that sleep was kind of important. I know, I know foolish me.
Assassination Classroom is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yūsei Matsui and has been adapted into Anime, Film and Video Games. It should be noted that a second Assassination Classroom movie is scheduled to be released in 2016.
As movies go this was kind of out there but it wasn’t the screwiest movie that I watched during the festival, that honour goes to The Ninja War of Torakage.
As an interesting and amusing movie this was to watch (of particular note was the students efforts to assassinate their teacher with a hail of bullets during roll call) I cannot see a situation like this happening in Australia mainly because the Alien monster would never get off the Manus Island or Nauru detention centres and heaven forbid the inevitable fall out when its leaked by members of the class on social media that the Government has been giving children guns.
But setting the joke aside and the fact that I have dumped on most teen movies that I have watched over the past years that I have watched, but even with the metaphor for growing up this Assassination Classroom has sufficient distance from the recycled teen movie novel adaptations to actually be good. I am also looking forward to the sequel when it is released.