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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 |
 "Best Fighting Anime superior to the first SF Movie"Non-stop bone-bracking action with muscle-packed super-fluent animated characters. Genuises must have created these choreographies. Only minus are the short guest entries of certain game-characters wich seem a bit "odd" if you don't know them from the arcade game. A "must have" for action-anime fans. Hope there will be made a sequel the same team. "An excelent beginning!"Street fighter is one of the more subsesful anime based on a video game.This anime S.F.A is an excellent beginning of what would be an excelent story.Most people say that it is bad and the worst animated movie that they had ever seen,but what some people don't know is that this isn't even a movie,it is just an 2 episodes OVA put together to make this "Movie".It doesn't mean almost anything if people gives it 2,3 or 1 star,this is just an opening of the serie.I found this OVA great and I wish that they keep the good work to make the serie and the ORIGINAL MOVIE even better than the OVA.I hope that they make a serie of this one because the plot is very long and there is too much were to cut from.I really love this Ova(or movie in the US).In Japan it is known as S.F.Zero the animation but I don't know why did they put S.F.Alpha the animated movie here in the US.Just wait for the continuation of this OVA to come out so there people could really judge about it.Buy it,it is really great and fun for an S.F. fan!  "Not really what I expected, but good"After watching the amazing anime Street Fighter II - The Animated Movie, I was expecting another great Street Fighter anime. I was kinda' disappointed. This movie had great animation and the characters (although most characters were not even mentioned) were very well drawn and depicted. The movie completely revolves around Ryu...and if there's a bit of time to concentrate on others, a bit on Chun-Li and Ken. None of this bothered me a bit...the only drawback was the lack of a story-line. It was kinda' missing something... The DVD, however, is much better than that of Street Fighter II - The Animated Movie. It has many bonus features and a menu...Imagine that! (Street Fighter II - The Animated Movie didn't have a menu...that kinda' disappointed me). Overall, its a must-see for any Street Fighter fan... A must-buy you may ask...well, rent it first...then you decide.  "A Real Downer"First of all, if you like SF2 the movie or SF2 V the series, it does not mean you will like this movie at all. The animation is not near as interesting, picture Ken and Ryu with "Hobbit" feat. The story line is much more chaotic and more than a little confusing at some points. Basically Ryu is being influenced by the "dark side of the force," well the martial art equivelant to anyway. Ken is in the movie a good deal, but he really doesn't do much. As far as characters are concerned, there are not a great deal of them in the movie. Rose has an appearance and a couple of others come in and out as well. There isn't a dual story like in SF2 with Chun Li and Guile, and there really aren't any great fights between the Street Fighter Characters. The script seems pretty juvinile as well, non of the characters seem to have anything interesting to say! Also, there is light reference to Akuma in the movie but don't get your hopes up, Akuma is hardly in it. Why two stars? Well, the animation may not be so bad if don't compare it to the rest of the Street Fighter Series. Fair or not, I am comparing this movie to the others in the the street fighter series. It didn't measure up. Rent before you buy it, it is your best bet. "Capcom's milking the cash cow"For diehards only--the plot is a thinly-veiled ripoff of the original anime: bad guy (a biologist this time!) collects data on street fighters while planning to take over the world. What's worse is that the story barely holds together. Yes, the film is Ryu-centric, but even so we get little character development, only scenes of him uttering the same lines repetitively. Ken acts younger in this one (recall the flashback scenes from the original) and is just comic relief. The original SFII art was not consistent, but Alpha cannot compare: the colors are washed out and the art lacks detail. In the DVD extras, the animator even admits to having difficulty drawing Chun Li--perhaps this is why the movie so often resorts to odd camera angles (predominantly crotch shots) and it is frustrating when the fighting takes place outside of the viewer's perspective. You'll have nothing to match the likes of Ryu vs. Fei Long, for instance. The trailer and box might have you believe Akuma is the villain here--if only it were so. The character design on the last two "bosses" is a joke. A disappointing release celebrating the 10th anniversary of an excellent anime movie . . . Let the buyer beware. |
