Spriggan
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Movie Reviews of Spriggan
Movie Review: ...What?
Summary: 3 Stars
In a word... "bizarre". Don't get me wrong, the film has its redeeming qualities, but none of said qualities have anything to do with plot. First, the good stuff: The character animation is astounding. Subtle nuances in pose, body language, and the occasional bio-mechanical prosthetic limb rival those in any other animated film to date. The visuals are fantastic, the sound production top-notch... but then it all falls apart. The plot (or lack of) revolves around a high schooler who is also a covert-ops soldier for an organization charged with the protection of historical artifacts. Apparently brainwashed at an ealry age, our hero proceeds to drive around, shoot stuff, get really strong, kill half of the characters in the movie, and duke it out to the death with Papa Smurf's evil twin brother, who is imbued with amazimg psychic powers (not unlike those kids from "Akira", but with less personality). Some self-serving psycho babble about Noah's Ark, and some very odd dinosaur chase sequences serve not to clarify just what the hell is supposed to be going on, but rather to give the audience further reason to scratch their heads and wonder why, exactly, they paid as much for tickets as they did. If you can find it on video, it's worth a rental for the skill of the animation, but if one is attempting to find a paragon of quality foreign film-making, I'd suggest running in the other direction and buying a Kurosawa flick.Movie Review: Animated Action Movie
Summary: 3 Stars
This anime is exactly like your typical action movie, only animated. It's got your stereotypical characters - super soldier, psychic kid, evil government branch, old scientist dude and some French guy. There are many explosions! It is very well animated and fun to watch, but the plot will leave you a little confused on the details and has a high corniness quotient. The ending especially was like a string of cliches, while at the same time not making a lot of sense.The one feature that makes it stand out is the dub sounds great! I hardly ever watch dubs because they usually do not begin to compare to the Japanese version, but all the actors in the Spriggan dub did a wonderful job!! The voices fit the characters (perhaps better than the originals), and the acting was on the mark.
I do have a complaint about the DVD menus, which is the text is so small I had a difficult time reading it. My tv is of a decent size, so I have no idea why they chose to make the writing so tiny. Besides that, the extras were ok, but there wasn't much of them.
This was fun to watch once, but I doubt I will watch it again. It's a nice rental. If you enjoy action movies even if they are a little cliched, you will probably have fun watching this.
Movie Review: Turn your brain off ...
Summary: 3 Stars
As it may help you to have more fun, if you think that 007 movies are the most unrealistic things you have ever seen, it's only because you never gave Spriggan a chance.The plot is an excuse for some of the greatest action scenes ever seen on anime, it revolves around Noah's Ark and a black-ops to prevent it being stolen (note that there's nothing that suggests that the original researchers of the Ark where to put it to good use, anyway).
While watching it you may see lot's of action, but very few are made by the main character, who is Spriggan number one. Instead, another Spriggan, who doesn't even bother to tell his rank, does so much stuff that at some point you start to wonder on what the main character can actually do being number 1, what would open the path to a sequel so fans could wait for even better action (this movie is a small part of the original manga).
If you're in for action and don't care for the lack of a plot, Spriggan will be an amazing movie to watch, as it is very well done and has great sound.
Movie Review: Too many holes to story...
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie was lacking a couple of things. It was a great concept and story, but really need some filling to make it a worthy anime. I liked the "ark theory," that was a rather creative concept. The English dub over for the weird bubble boy did a nice job. However, there was just too much jumping around in the story. One minute you were viewing the main character leaving a room and the next minute he was on a plane with no indication when, where and why. It almost got to a point where you did not care. And leave it to anime writers to come up with some sort of cheesy method to make a young teenager have super human strength. But I guess that is pretty typical anime.Regardless of all the negatives, I would casually recommend this anime. Watch it to experience it. The big explosions may make up for the small story.
Movie Review: I can't stop laughing
Summary: 3 Stars
I can't stop laughing every time I read the title of this movie, why?, the ending of course. This movie rips off a lot of other original anime (*chough*Akira*chough*[I mean come on... a kid with crazy insane powers, he even looks like akira...sort of...]), and although the plot is pretty interesting and is fairly well developed, it never really explains who all the people they introduce are. Not only that, but the movie leaves you with a 'What the heck kind of ending was that?!' feeling, it's as though they were running out of money, and insteady of doing a ton of still scenes with a ton of talking, they decide to wrap the ending up without really letting you know what happens, it's like they end it with '...and some stuff happens, the end.' I'm not sure if it's worth buying, but it's at least worth seeing once.