Cutie Honey (キューティーハニー, Kyūtī Hanī) is a 2004 Japanese tokusatsu superhero film directed and co-written by Hideaki Anno.

The film loosely retells the classic story of Cutie Honey's battle to defend humanity and avenge her father against Panther Claw.

Following a fatal accident a year prior, Honey's father, Professor Kisaragi, revived her by transferring her mind into an android body using nanotechnology called the "I-System".

Professor Kisaragi was murdered by Panther Claw, a terrorist organization, led by the stoic, tree-esque Sister Jill, who seeks to use the I-System to perfect and sustain her beauty.

Natsuko is pressured by her superiors to solve Panther Claw's crimes, particularly the disappearance of numerous women across Japan; unaware Jill is using them to maintain her life force.

Ilya Garger of Time said that Cutie Honey was more like the "tamer" 1970s anime version than the original manga, with campy "over-the-top" acting and "unpolished" CGI effects.

Garger added that "much of the film seems devoted to giving people a chance to ogle Eriko Sato in an array of fetching costumes—and in all fairness, she does an excellent job of being oglable.

"[4] A Variety review agreed with those points: it called the movie "an embarrassment of kitsches" with "camp pleasures and candy-coated, comic-book giddiness" that has "more humor and a lot less perversion" than the manga, and praised Sato as "a highly marketable plus as the sexy superhero who shouts 'Honey, flash!

While Gibner said that Sato's role as Honey is "hard not to enjoy", he considered the film an unsatisfying "noisy thing" with an incoherent story.