Inuyasha, The Movie 1 - Affections Touching Across Time
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Actor: *Brand: Ventura Distribution
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Viz
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- 200 years ago, Inuyasha's father sealed away a powerful demon from a foreign land named Hyoga. A Shikon Jewl Shard awakens Hyoga's son, Menomaru, inspiring him to absorb the remains of his father's power to take control of the world. It's up to Inuyasha and his friends to stop this nearly invincible foe!Running Time: 100 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION Rating: PG-13 Age:
Movie Reviews of Inuyasha, The Movie 1 - Affections Touching Across Time
Movie Review: Inu yasha,
Summary: 5 Stars
To start of the review I would like to say that I am a big fan of Inu Yasha, and this movie, while not groundbreaking still sufficed for a fun adventure film.
Plot: As I said ealier, Inu Yasha: Affections Touching Across Time dosn't really break any new ground as far as plot is concerned but I still enjoyed myself while watching it. The story is basically just your typical adventure story, Evil Demon wants revenge, Inu yasha must fight eveil demon who wants revenge, people almost die, Kaede says "Ye" alot, etc. ect. you all know the deal. Now I will admit, as much as I love Inu Yasha the story could have been maybe a little more involved. They could have gone a different route other than the evil demon trying to take over the world senario, it was just a little clich'ed. However, despite the plot's simplicity the film manages to make up for it with it's presentation. I really really liked the way this movie was paced, everything moved seamlessly. There was always action taking place and it was most certainly not boring by any stretch of the imagination. Also, the story between Inu yasha and Kagome I thought was excellently handeled as well. As usual Shippo was pretty much useless in the film, he just stood around screaming alot, but it was still adoreable. Sango and Miroku had reasonably big parts, not to much going on in the character development area, but they did have some fighting to do. I actually thought it was kinda funny at the end after Miroku's rival died he said a little prayer after her death, while Sango's rival died a horrble death by being chopped in half and Sango's all like "Lets go Kilala." It really shows you how different Sango and Miroku are in terms of personality. I mean it wasn't even Miroku's fault that Hari died, she was sucked into her own wind tunnel, but Miroku still says (Well not exactly says, it's more like a hand gesture) a prayer for her. But Sango is like "Die B****" and feels absolutely no remorse for her doings. I just thought that was sort of funny. Then we have Kikyo, well I guess she wasn't totally useless, in fact she actually played a fairly big role in the plot. And this movie shows what a cruel heartless B**** she can really be. As far as Sesshomaru and company are concerned there really wasn't much going on. But I actually thought it was sort of interesting that Kikyo and Sesshomaru actually had a little conversation in the film, something that, to my knowledge, has never occured in the manga or TV series. It was actually a pretty cool conversation, although very brief. I thought it really conveyed Kikyo's hatred towards the flow of time, and how while it moves along for everybody else, for her it stands completely still. As for the other characters there really wasn't anything new for any of them. Kaede says "Ye", the villagers are once again innocent victims to another evil demon, and Kagome's family......., well, no, actually Kagome's family had a fairly big part in the film. Well that about does it for the plot, not anything new, but still cool.
Animation: Inu Yasha has always, in my opinion anyway, been a really really well animated TV series, however the animation in this movie is somewhat of a mixed bag. It, for the most part, had good animation, it's just the art and colors that were a little bit drab at times. Now, I will say that I am not one of those people who whined and moaned about the new charcater designs, in fact I really liked the new designs, it's just that at times the production definitely looked a bit rushed. Also, the CGI was really pretty bad. It looked really awful combined with all the hand drawn animation, it was also completely unnecessary. However these complaints don't apply for the whole movie, it's only parts of the film where the artwork dragged a little, it actually looked really good towards the end of the movie. Also even the visuals were a little below average in some parts they still looked pretty good, it's just that compared to movies 2 and 3 the animation looks a little weak. The character designs for the villains were alright I guess, nothing special. Just your typical Takahashi affair.
Voice Acting: Usually, although I don't really think it's all that bad, my main complaint about Inu Yasha has always been the Dub. Not that I think it's awful, I actually sort of like it, in fact thats why I re-bought the movie, I really wanted to watch it in English. Also for all you Dub haters yelling and screaming at my review right now, I admittedly like watching Dub anime better than subtitled. I just think you get more out of the experience hearing it in a language you can speak, but then again I guess if I could speak japanese I would get so much more out of the subbtiled version. But I guess at heart Im actually a mixer, there are some animes I like dubbed and others I like subbed. As far as Inu yasha goes, I actually enjoy listening to it in both languages. But, lets get back to the movie itself, did I lke the Dub? Well, Yes in fact I was quite astonished by how good it was. The voice actor who plays Kagome did an all out job for the movie. The scenes between her and Inu yasha were superbly acted. Everyone else actually really did an excellent job. My only complaint is the Kaede "Ye" thing, what posed the transaltors to include that is beyond me. Usually, although I like watching Inu Yasha better in English than in Japanese, the Japanese version is techincally much better acted. And, seeing this film a year before it came out in English, I didn't really think the english version would surpass it, or even live up to it. But god was I wrong, the dub, in spots of this film, I thought actually improved over the subtitled version. One of the reasons why I think Inu yasha dosn't really translate too well sometimes is because of it's heavy influence on Japanese culture. There will, sometimes, be lines like "I think the sword is crying." Now this of course sounded really silly translated into english, but sounded fine in Japanese. Why? It's because of culture. In Japan swords are regarded as living things, so in Japan it just sounds normal, however to many americans thatline may come across as sounding silly or maybe even a bit confusing. Thats why I think, for what it is, Inu yasha is very well dubbed, the series wasn't meant to be spoken in english so, thus, it at times sounds a little silly when spoken so.
Music: I have always been a big fan of the music in Inu yasha and his movie is no different. Kaoru Wada, as usual did an excellent job with the music. I especially liked his dramatic pieces.
Overall: As you can tell, I enjoyed the movie. It was cool, and it was very entertaining, it's not the best of the four but it's still cool, none the less. I actually think this is my second favorite with number one being movies 2 and 3 tied, number four was okay, not awesome, but still not half bad.
Heres the movie in a nutshell:
Plot: B
Animation:B+
Artwork:B-
Presentation: A-
Voice acting: Dubbed: A
Subbed: A
Overall grade:B+ or A-
Summary of Inuyasha, The Movie 1 - Affections Touching Across Time
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