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Escaflowne - The Movie Actor: Kazuki Akane Number of Items: 1 Format: Animated, Color, Widescreen, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Bandai Entertainment Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2004-03-02 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 152 Average rating: 4.0 "Escaflowne" I first bought the movie at a K-mart and liked it and then I heard about the Ultimate Edition 3-Disc Set then I just had to have it. The box art on the collector box is just simply beautiful and amazing. It comes with a rememberable booklet (just a small one nothing big), the original movie, a disk of extras, and the original soundtrack with the amazing vocals of Yoko Kanno XD . But just to warn you this movie is nothing like the series its very confusing but over all great movie. The animation is wonderful and stunning as same with the story line. Well enjoy. "What happened?" Im not sure this happened to anybody else but i bought this 3 disc thing and about an hour into the movie the audio and the visual just goes all to hell. So i figured maybe its just a bad disc because theres nothing wrong with my dvd player.So i sent it back and ordered another one, well guess what? The same thing happened, so i guess my dvd player was just telling me this movie was just gonna suck really bad so it spared me the agony.So i just sent it back and maybe i'll order the TV series later. "Exercise in critical Thinking" Exercise in critical Thinking, For those of you who have seen this series and love it . . . this movie cannot be compared to the series. One must go into this movie knowing that it is a different perspective on an already existing series. In all honesty the creators of this movie were able to portray another "Destiny" or "Fate" for the world of Gaea using the same characters in sometimes different roles. If you apply what you know about the characters from the original Escaflowne series to the characters in this series then it is fairly easy to understand the plot devices of this movie. In essence if you have not had the pleasure of watching the original animated series then it fruitless to watch this movie on its own . . . the experience, in my opinion would not be the same. The only reason I do not give this collectors set a 5 star rating is the seeming excessive use of blood in some scenes. Overall definitely worth adding to any collection! "Well....." I would not advise watching this movie if you have not seen the original series yet. The series is much better. It seems to me that this movie was put together as a "well, we wrote a pretty good story, but this is what we were also thinking of doing even though it didn't make the original cut." After you've seen the full series it may be worth seeing this movie if you are a die-hard fan, but you really don't need to. Nearly every character's storyline or personality has changed. The overall sweeping epic journey found in the original series is lost because the movie is short. Many things that happen are not explained, which would confuse you if you haven't seen the series. Bottom line: if you are interested in the series, watch the series, not the movie. "Its good!" i have never seen the series but i rented this movie and i loved it! the only thing that i dont like about it is that its too......romantic. i mean that be cuz only at the beginning it was bloody and had sword fighting in it and then Von becomes all nice and romantic to hitomi(i think i spelled it wrong). i like romance but i also like sword fighting in it(or it to be like fighting(like the inu yasha series or kenshin ova series)