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Cowboy Bebop - The Movie Actors: Beau Billingslea, Melissa Charles Directors: Shinichirô Watanabe, Hiroyuki Okiura Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Running Time: 114 minutes Studio: Columbia Tri-Star Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2003-06-24 Buy from Amazon |
 "knockin' on heaven's door"i hate it when foreign movies come out in america and they change the title. the originally title of this movie is, "Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door". but instead they changed it to "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie". yes, we all know it's a movie, but hey, maybe it's just me. everything in this flick is still great. all the voice-actors from the show are back and sound great, as well as the music. i was fortunate enough to see this in the theaters, and it was glorious. i wish there were more animes on the big screen. the story is about the usual crew and their mishaps. they get a bounty on a guy named Vincent, in one way or another, and go after him. Of course Faye goes off in her own way, as does Spike. Jet acts as the mediator, like usual and Ed and Ein are still mostly entertaining background noise. but Ed does some useful computer hacking and such. there's not much backstory on Vincent, but that's okay. all the action sequences are amazing and the animation is top notch. the movies climax is one of anime's best, ending in a showdown on a Eiffel tower duplicate. so if you like the show, you will like the movie. it's just another episode, except dragged out. so it's almost impossible for it to keep the same fast pace as the tv show, but it doesn't slow down for long. buy this if you like good anime or even if you've never heard of this Japanese form of animation. it's a great movie none the less. i hope they make another movie, since the show is over and this one was a success. if they do, i hope they revolve it around the relationship between Spike and Vicious and the whole Red Dragon organization. that would make for a hell of a movie in my book. but this one will have to do for now. great movie, great series, great great great. "Cowboy Bebop--The Movie"I was rather new to anime in general, let alone Cowboy Bebop, when I spotted this movie in a Blockbuster. I took it home and watched it; and I was in love. Excellent animation, great voice casting (and dubbing!) and an overall well-done plot combine to make this one of the best movies I have ever seen. I'm definitely going to watch the series. While definitely rated R, this movie is a wonderful effort. I would highly recommend it. And no, I'm not going to tell you what happens. What kind of a movie reviewer do you think I am? "Cowboy Bebop - The Movie"The series is great and well-animated. Even when the action slows down, the animators took enough time to make the movement flow without the usual choppiness you see in other series. *****One point to note and totally unrelated to the series itself is to BEWARE of sellers who are trying to sell bootlegged and pirated copies of this movie as "IMPORT" and/or "ALL REGION." Pretty much anything that is described as such is a Chinese or Taiwanese PIRATED copy that sometimes have problems playing in DVD players because of the low-quality product they duped the movie on***** "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"Fans of Cowboy Bebop should love this movie, for it is a worthy film. Taking place between Episodes 22 and 23, the Bebop is patrolling around Mars in late October, a few days before Halloween. Faye is headed to get the bounty on a young hacker...but the vehicle she's following isn't being driven by a young hacker. A mysterious tall man, dressed in black, steps out of the truck, which explodes. People in the surrounding area fall violently ill. Spike and the rest of the Bebop get involved in this, and the fate of Mars rests on their shoulders. The film is packed with superb action scenes, a jaw-dropping chase scene, some rather hillarious moments, and lots of great music. The plot is very enjoyable, and fits right in the with Bebop universe. A must see for fans of Cowboy Bebop! "Simply Amazing! Just what you expect from Cowboy Bebop!"Before I watched this movie, I had seen only one episode of Cowboy Bebop back when it first started playing on TV. I knew the characters, and some of the story, but other than that, I was pretty much clueless. Well, I was wandering through the used dvd section in a local video store and happened to see this for a good price, so I figured 'what the hey' and bought it. I have not regretted that decision yet. In fact, I have gone on to buy the Cowboy Bebop series! This is definitely one of the favorites in my collection. Everything about it is just awesome, from the animation to the story to the voices. I prefer the English voices, as those are the ones I am familiar with, but the Japanese is just as good, although Faye sounds much younger than she is supposed to be. Visually, this movie is a real treat. The movement is fluid, the colors are appropriate to the atmosphere, and hair and clothing move as they would in real life. The animators put some serious time and effort into making this movie as beautiful as possible. The characters are some of the coolest I've ever seen. Faye is my favorite, although Spike is a very close second. I showed this to my mother and stepfather (English version of course), and mom has become an Ed fan. David likes Spike, and especially enjoyed the fight between Spike and Electra. The music took a while for me to get used to, but once I did I found I liked it a lot. Very different from the J-pop and J-rock you normally hear in anime movies, thought I like that kind of stuff too. When all is said and done, I think every anime fan needs to see some Cowboy Bebop at least once, even if it is just an episode or two. Personally, I recommend the movie as a good starting point. Worked for me! |
