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Appleseed (Widescreen) (2004) Actors: Ai Kobayashi, Jûrôta Kosugi, Yuki Matsuoka Director: Shinji Aramaki Number of Items: 1 Format: Animated, Color, Widescreen, Dolby Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Running Time: 105 minutes Studio: Geneon Entertainment Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2005-05-10 Buy from Amazon |
 "Animation spotty, Dialog always suffered...Story fair."I've seen some great Japanese Anime. This wasn't it. The animation was in places Poor, Acceptable and Superior. Spotty animation quality is a real shame. The dialog or delivery was just passable. The storyline wasn't convincing. If you have to own every Japanese Anime you can find then by all means, get this one. Otherwise get Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke before you purchase this one.  "Decent CG but empty cinematography."I think that this was a decent but some of the shots were either cut poorly or animated poorly depending on whether you count the camera movement as animation...The characters looked ok but didn't express enough emotion, maybe because some of the animators were used to the traditional anime emotional shortcuts like big sweat drops, but thank god they didn't use those here or I'd give it a 1. If you like some mech eye candy and some action but not worried about the plot or animations continuity then I'd recommend this to you.  "Amazing Movie"If your into CG, or anime in general, this movie rocks. Easily the best cell shaded peice of work i have ever seen.  "One of best Anime Films yet!!!"Well where do I begin? I found the plotlines full on! Action and the visuals draw me in and kept me involved. But it's one of those movie you'll have to watch for yourself... I'm a huge fan of Ninja Scroll and some other Anime movies. When seeing an ad on internet site for this movie. I had to see what it was all about! It's also reminded me a little of robotech! The whole human getting into the machine and controling it. But this does a lot more with the action! Well I wasn't disappointed! The visuals of the film are great!! Well there unbelievable really! If you have a nice Widescreen TV. You won't be left out! 9 - 10 for picture! Sound There's 5.1 English Dolby and Japan 5.1 DTS. I was impressed, I did find the bass was pretty heavy with the music but not on the general action scene's. I listened to the whole movie in Japan dts with english subtitles. I thought it was great! 8 - 10 I just hope they make a number 2! "Very detailed animation"This review is coming from someone who has not read the books or seen the previous movie. This being said, I have to say I really enjoyed this movie a lot. I thought the animation was amazing. It was done in CGI, laid over with regular animation for the characters. The amount of detail in the animation is just astounding. One particular scene comes to mind when Deunan and Briareos are talking in a locker room; you can actually see dust floating in the sunbeam coming through the window. One thing that got on my nerves, however, was the way the characters hair was drawn. It was very clumpy and didn't move at all. The story was very entertaining as well. Basically the last city, Olympus, is half populated by humans and half populated by Bioroids (artificial clones). There are extremist human groups who want to get rid of the Bioroids completely, thusly returning full control and power to the humans. The fait of both the Bioroids and humans ends up resting on the shoulders of Deunan and her retrieving the Appleseed technology that her mother helped produce. My only complaints are that there was a tremendous amount of dialog and explaining. Also, the English dubbing was poor. There was little emotion in the voices of the voice actors. Aside from that, I thought it was a great movie. |
