“Ultraman: Rising,” the first animated feature from the Japanese franchise that began back in 1966, had its world premiere at the Annecy International Film Festival on Wednesday night, and as the credits began to roll, the crowd broke out in a standing ovation that lasted for the entirety of the movie’s main-on-end credits sequence (by our calculation more than three minutes). When the movie’s mid-credits scene ran, the crowd sat down. When the scene was over, they erupted into applause again. (Our review was similarly effusive.)
There have been enthusiastic responses to the movies and footage screened at Annecy this year – everything from “Transformers One” to “The Wild Robot” to the Looney Tunes movie “The Day the Earth Blew Up” – but there hasn’t been a response as prolonged as the one for “Ultraman: Rising,” which debuts on Netflix later this week.