Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Ghost in the Shell DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 106 minutes DVD Release Date: 2007-10-02 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Manga Video |
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Movie Reviews of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man
Movie Review: Go For the Whole Season
Summary: 2 Stars
I hate to have to say that I was dissapointed with this buy, but I was. And it's difficult to find any redeeming quality in it. The idea of condensing the GITS Laughing Man series into a feature length movie was a great idea. The story arc is a complex one, and I jumped at the opportunity to re-watch the story in a continuous format. However, one of the first issues arises in the editing. People who watched the complete series will see the editing choices the producers made when splicing together the various episodes -- and will very likely notice just how disjointed the results are. Those who haven't seen the original episodes won't notice the uneveness, but will probably be completely confused as to what the heck is going on within 20 minutes. So who exactly was the audience for this product? Old fans or new ones?
If the answer is old fans, than the producers will have given them plenty of other reasons to be upset about this product. For one, the original character voices have all been changed. In some cases, like Aramaki and Ishikawa, the new voices are close approximations of the original. But in the case of Motoko, it takes a while for the ears to accept the nuances of the change. With Batou and Togusa, the voices are so off and generic that my ears were too distracted to even finish the movie.
Again, if new fan's were the target here, the change in voice actors won't be an issue, but I'd still be curious to know how many of them will be able to follow this already complex plot which is made even more complicated by choppy editing. For such would be fans I would recommend just buying the entire season in bulk and enjoying the Laughing Man story and the miscellaneous stories that punctuate it.