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| ACTORS: | Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Hironobu Sakaguchi, Moto Sakakibara |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 11 July, 2001 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Columbia Tri-Star |
| MPAA RATING: | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby |
| TYPE: | Science Fiction |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 043396062498 |
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Customer Reviews of Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within (Special Edition)
Visually Stunning ... Poorly Executed Any review of this movie must have the standard description of the CGI People. Sometimes they seemed plastic and wooden and other times the CGI humans were dead on. At times I fell for the fantasy and saw Gray as Ben Affleck giving a really bad performance. The non-human elements were awesome. It carried the unique "mecha" style of Japanese Anime and the vehicles looked particularly cool. The enemy "phantoms" were pretty neat and could only have been realised through computer animation.
The story was indeed a retread of past SCI-FI works with a generous sprinkling of Final Fantasy physco-babble. There were places were I felt I was playing the game and wishing to have an controller button to push to skip over a hackneyed disertation on the nature of Gaia. This movie moved along at a very straight forward pace. This is the good guy...this is the bad guy....this is the love interest...these are the enemies...this is how we stop them...now we go to stop them. We were never given the opportunity to see into the onscreen world and visit the characters.
The "acting" was bad. The jokes were dumb but could've worked if delivered by live actors. The only character that seemed to work was Dr. Cid. The CGI characters were not expressive enough to make you laugh. The limited nature of the facial expressions also made it difficult to buy into the heavy emotial scenes.
The movie was amusing in places. Particularly some phantoms were an overt copy of themes in Japanese tenticle-porn. We were even treated to seeing a ghost-tentacle pierce into (or out of?) the main characters crotch. Other fun was to be when the main character stuck her head in her loves laps which smacked of...well something naughty.
People looking to see a live Final Fantasy game may be dissapointed. Apart from the bizarre nonsensical plot and the addition of a character named Cid there was little relation to the RPG series. I looked close and saw no six-feet tall Chickens.
The soundtrack was adequate. One weird piece lifted the distinctive opening note from "The Phantom of The Opera" during ... of course... a phantom attack. Bizzarre. Don't look for the less-than-stellar ending song at next years Academy Awards.
I went into the film wanting to see what computer animation was looking like outside the Disney-deritive works like Shrek and Toy Story. Mission accomplished. Anybody going for an interesting story or good action should probably look elsewhere.
The most underrated film of the decade thus far
In July of 2001, this movie was ignored or misunderstood when it was released in theaters.
In September of 2001, a terrible, historical event occurred.
In the history of cinema, I can't think of a movie that is more relevant with everything that has happened in the world in the past few years.
One simply has to look through the facade (an alien sci-fi action movie) to see what makes this an instant classic.
(The 4 stars are for the quality of the DVD, not for the movie)
Great Movie
Whether you love final fantasy games, or you've never heard of them before, this movie is great for you. It is amazing what computers have been able to do. The animations are so lifelike that at points you actually might begin to think that the people are real, and not just computer programs. Even if the plot was horrible, the movie would be worth watching just to see the advancements in computer technology. The plot is so intriguing, and the voice talents let you relate to the movie more because they are people most of us have heard of and not just random actors. It may not be Oscar quality, but for any sci-fi fan, it's definately a must-see.