I agree across the board! Downey Jr. is brilliant, the animation is genius, the story is surprisingly bleak and topical in a way I did not see coming. Like the best sci-fi, it's more a morality tale about us, today, than some sort of farfetched what-if nonsense.

As for seeing it in the theater, I think the animation does things that can be missed on the small screen. Things move in an interesting way that is so odd it almost looks like a mistake at first, but as the movie starts to gel it becomes clear that the animation is doing something that actually enhances the story.

It's destined to be a cult classic, it seems. Considering the depth of paranoia and devastation built in I doubt it will ever find a mainstream audience, but hey, that's the case with our man DB too, isn't it?