If you enjoy comedy, action, parody, anime and their live-action adaptation, and most of all, absurdness, look no further, "Gintama" was made for you.

Despite visual charm... the movie still suffers from many of the pitfalls of a big-budget American superhero joint: self-conscious in-jokes, bloated runtime and bad CGI.

While this chaotic mash-up of sci-fi and period drama aesthetics triggers a relentless sugar rush of visual stimuli, Gintama proves an exhausting and alienating experience for the uninitiated.

This film adaptation does not take itself seriously, which is a good thing, but, on the other hand, it can come across as scattershot.