A.D. Police - To Protect and Serve (Complete Series)
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Actor: Dean Turner, Illich Guardiola, John Swasey, K?ji Ishii, Phil Ross (II)DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 300 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-09
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Adv Films
Movie Reviews of A.D. Police - To Protect and Serve (Complete Series)
Movie Review: Just isn't worth it.
Summary: 2 Stars
The only reason I give this two stars is because the animation is decent. I guess given the choice, I'd give it 1 1/2 stars.
I owned this series once upon a time when there was no such thing as DVDs. Like most, I went for it because it was set in the world of Bubblegum Crisis, Crash, etc. One of the Bubblegum characters even was a member of the A.D. Police, though it was made very clear that none of the Bubblegum characters would be in this sub-series.
So, I owned this series, and traded it in for credit at a used video store within a day of viewing it, accompanied by an even more die-hard fan of Bubblegum and anime in general. There was mass agreement that nothing in this series added to the Bubblegum universe and it seemed to just be an opportunity for some pretty disgusting animation and confusing stories.
Seriously, when a character is reduced to a tongue supported by a bunch of technology (yes, a TONGUE), you've gone too far into some improbable and twisted alternate reality. The tongue was actually not the most disturbing thing, which is truly frightening. Fortunately, my brain has blocked most of the other sicko concepts, but I can't shake the damned tongue image.
You don't want that image for the rest of your life. I've carried it around for at least 13 years, and it shows no sign of fading.
Summary of A.D. Police - To Protect and Serve (Complete Series)
A.D. Police began as a three-part OAV prequel to the popular Bubblegum Crisis series; these 12 episodes constitute the entire 1999 remake for TV. In the not-too-distant future, a massive earthquake has reduced Tokyo to rubble. The metropolis has been rebuilt as Genom City, named after the gargantuan conglomerate that manufactures Voomers (VOodoo Organic Metal Extension Resource), robots that provide most of the labor in the city. When a robot turns into a violent rogue Boomer, the A.D. Police has to resolve the crisis--by shooting the Boomer in its vital core. The most effective cop on the squad is Kenji Sasaki, but he's a coolly arrogant loner who operates on his own terms, rather than a team player. When his partner is critically injured in a fight with Boomers, Kenji is paired with the mysterious Hans Kleif, and the duo slowly forges a friendship. Kenji, Hans, and the rest of the squad are pitted against Liam Fletcher, the right-hand henchman of the Genom Corporation president, in a series of violent confrontations. This incarnation of A.D. Police feels like a standard-issue anime action-adventure series: it pits a tough, motorcycle-riding antihero against an all-powerful industrial conglomerate involved in illegal and unethical biomechanical experiments. The mecha designs are undistinguished, and nothing in the scripts, animation, or direction sets the program apart. Liam's violent attempts at hijacking a plane and a nuclear reactor may disturb some viewers. Unrated: Violence, grotesque imagery, alcohol and tobacco use. --Charles SolomonAnimation DVD Video
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