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Street Fighter Alpha - The Movie Directors: Shigeyasu Yamauchi, Joe Romersa Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Pan & Scan Format: Color, Animated, Dolby Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: Palm Pictures/Manga Video Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2001-01-30 Buy from Amazon |
 "if u liked SF2 the animated movie, then you will hate this"SFA the movie is a hard to watch anime movie. It is horrible, it has nothing to do with storylines from the games and the characters in the movie get off character completly; especially Zangief who is totally off charcter. Akuma is featured on the cover but he he's barely in the movie, there isn't even one fight scene with Akuma... rip off. The hole story line with Ryu's fake borther Shun is really anoying "big brother, big brother". Then when you think you will see interesting scenes with Adon, Birdie, Guy and Sodom... you get robbed insted with a bad story and plot and one of the worst villains. The movie has nothing to do with the SFA games... keep away  "Interesting but definitely not up to Street Fighter standard"The most appealing aspect of this film is not in the art but in the plotline. There are interesting revelations about the characters that make you look forward to sequel for this film. However the main problem is that this film just doesn't flow right. Once again the contiutiy is messed up because in this movie, Ryu and Ken know each other and that's it. They don't already know Chun Li or any of the other characters and I think that messed up a good plot that came out of the Street Fighter V series. Sometimes choppy and often confusing, the animation in this film also didn't provide that great of an anime production. The fight scenes were almost anti-climatic with all of the drama built around waiting for someone to shoot a fireball. One problem I see in many anime films is how animators will drag scenes out for what seems like hours while nothing really important happens. Come on people, get creative. where are the elaborate fight scenes with complex moves and so forth?  "Otaku vs. Video Game Fans"If you are a die-hard SF'er, you might not like how this movie matches the SF universe. But, c'mon...the drawing style is more interesting than SF: The Animated Movie (the animation cels from SFA are absolutely beautiful), and the dialogue is both introspective and funny (The dialogue in SF: The Animated Movie was also funny, but for different reasons--"Attack with more!" and "What do you see in front of your fist?" ring any bells?). Besides, anyone who thinks that Sakura or Dan are meant to be serious characters has bought one too many GI Joes. Yes, Ryu doesn't fight Vega, Balrog, Bison, or Akuma in this movie, but SF Alpha 2 is in production, and will feature Akuma. Happy? "The second best Street Fighter Movie"Street Fighter Alpha The Movie is the second best Street Fighter anime.The first so far is Street Fighter 2 The Animated Movie but the only reason that sfa comes second is that it was having a little problem with the music.The soundeffects were perfect and if the music was a litle beter the sfa could be the best. About the story now... The story was one of the best part of the movie. We see Ryu beating up a lot of guys in this movie and this should always be in every sf movies. I mean if Ryu wash'nt on the sf series maybe capcom wouldh'nt be one of the best companys of the world in beat em ups games. This time we see Ryu with shun-the boy who sais that he is his litlle brother having a mysterious energy inside them. They both want to release this energy but they just can't control it because of its large power. From the other side we have Ken that his purpose in the movie is to enter the sf tournouament.He wants to prove to the world that his is the best fighter. Chun-li now is entering this movie to find the myterious organization Shadaloo because she things that maybe her father will be there. The smallest part in this movie has Sacura that she only wants to meet Ryu.She thing that he might learn her some technigues so she ll become strong. Our stars with Ryu saving a boy from some bad guys and giving the chance to Chun-li learn more about him.In the midlle of the story Shun is being kidnaped buy shadaloo an in this part now is where Ryu must Face the Dark-Hado that is inside him. For an end i believe that enyone who generally loves sf series should buy this.This movie stands in for all.I mean if somebody only likes fights he would be pleased seing this,if somebody likes stories its the best part of the film. So SFA is one of the best sf movies and everyone who likes SF should buy it. "Dissapointing..."As an otacu,Street Fighter is one of my all-time favorites. Street Fighter 2: the animated movie is one of the best animes I have in my collection. So you can guess how anxious I was to watch this one. Unfortunately,it wasn't at all what I expected. There were no real fighting scenes that would really amaze anyone,the characters were poorly drawn,the plot seemed too shallow for what it wanted to present and it was missing key characters from the games. It doesn't even have a fight scene with Akuma!! I mean, common now! That is what most people who know SFA expect. The only element that I consider to be good was how they emphasized on the dark side trying to consume Ryu. I merely reccomend you to rent this. |
