Cloud and his rusted Buster Sword
Cloud's new Sword (the 'Roku' Blade)
Advent Children OST
Advent Children DVD
Two years after the defeat of Sephiroth by Cloud and his gang, a new danger reappears. This danger is Kadaj. He and his two brothers are out to get the cells of Jenova in order to bring back Sephiroth. Cloud, in order to stop it, must pick up the sword once again and join in the fight. With the help of the Turks and the former President of ShinRa, and his fellow friends, Cloud must prevent this danger and save Midgar and the world once again.
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I won't go into detail on what you already know. 2 years after the original game events, an illness called geostigma torments the people, and with no hope in sight they look towards a man who gave up being a hero to live in solitude, Cloud Strife. Now as far as the stories concerned, you will most likely be lost if you haven't played the original game. Certain elements attempt to touch the fabric of the original game but never really help you understand why. Hell to be honest, if you haven't played the game more than once you'll still be kind of lost. But to be true to the story, the characters were pretty good. The attitudes that everybody had in the original game are still here. Cloud becomes a cold loner once again, Reno is comical and a badass as he ever was, etc. etc. The new characters were odd yet believable that they were just soulless and completely destructive. Over-all the story was very nice, bad sadly seamed to end a bit too soon and still does not quite explain a lot about the ending of the first game.
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The character designs are completely astounding. Being a 3D art major in college, I've learned to appreciate good work and this most definitely was astounding. "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" was just one technological advantage, this one takes it to the next level. The animation is flawless, the characters are detail-for-detail amazing, and the world (backgrounds, people, trees, etc.) are truly unbelievable (in a good way)! The monsters definitely felt unreal and devastating. After watching this movie you can't just wish they would remake the original Final Fantasy VII game. A graphical upgrade is one thing, but a complete overhaul with modern technology is on a completely different level of greatness. The costumes were very refreshing and the detail still makes my mouth drop down. The weapons you just can't believe. The mechanics scheme of Clouds new sword was just eye opening. Being a fan of the original game (practically playing it to death) the art was definitely a change of pace for the best. Sadly, for fans of the original game, Cait Sith has given up the huge robotic mog for riding on the back of REDXIII. The 3D is the best well see for years to come and is only a milestone of what technology is accomplishing. Do not associate this with Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., A Bugs Life, and whatever full 3D movie is out there, this has definitely raised up the bar in what 3D action movies should look like (with the latter only being Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within). Some action scenes maybe totally unbelievable but are completely flawless in terms of character animation.
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Nobuo Uematsu is truly a genius. Being with Final Fantasy for so many years, you just can't help but appreciate his work. If you were fortunate enough to see his Dear Friends or More Friends concerts, you'll know how hard this guy works. The soundtrack includes his band, The Black Mages, redoing a lot of the old sounds. Most notably redone is People Fight and People Fight Again music. The sound truly set the mood for this movie. Giving it the tragic orchestral sounds to the hardcore punk-rock sound in there respective situations. Even Nobuo Uematsu went back and did the piano for this moving (you will most definitely hear the difference in quality from Nobuo Uematsu's piano versions compared to Shiro Hamaguchi and Seiji Honda's piano versions [which is the FFVII Piano Collections] This is due to time constraints, Nobuo Uematsu wasn't able to do the original FFVII Piano Collections. Hearing Nobuo's versions on the Advent Children soundtrack was very much a nice refreshing touch down memory lane. The soundtrack is 2 discs long and very much worth your time if you loved it in the Advent Children movie.
Sound effects. Boom! Crash! Baaazing! Okay no Baaazing but the sound effects were definitely high quality. You can get the feel for the metal scraping, the guns blazing, the flesh being bruised or torn, and etc. When weapons collide the sound sends a chill up your spine, it's just that much quality. When punches are thrown, you can hear them fly through the air and you get another chill when you actually hear it collide with something. The effects were most definitely believable that it almost entraps you inside the situation that you're seeing before your eyes.
Now on to the voices. I don't know about the English version (well know in February... but seeing as we have Lace
Bass, yes the one guy from the boy band Nsync, set to reprise his Kingdom Hearts roll voice of Sephiroth... I'm
scared...). But here's my review of the Japanese voices. Since in the Final Fantasy VII game, none of the
characters had voices. This means that you had to create your own voice for the characters by hearing there storyline,
listening how they talk or respond, etc. This movie did a very good job of making the voice acting just as if I was
imagining the characters themselves from the original game talk. Shogo Suzuki does an outstanding job as Vincent
Valentine, the voice is cold and yet emotional just as you'd picture hearing the real voice from the game. You
don't hear him as much as Cloud or Loz but for the time allotted, Vincent had one of the best voices in the game.
Everyone else did a standard job of bringing the voices in my imagination alive, of course a lot of people complained
mostly because they were reading the subtitles more often that listening to the voices. Good thing for me I didn't
need subtitles. All-in-all the voices were very good.
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Overall the entire ride was rather short but very much worth the watch none-the-less. This maybe just because I'm studying 3D and design in my classes that I found watching this movie over-and-over again worth it. Just seeing 3D animation of this quality in an action movie truly states that soon enough we may just have no need for physical actors anymore, just voice. Detail wise was very good. Cloth acted like cloth, metal acted like metal, no random jumps or anything. The animation was flawless and was the high point of this movie. Given that this is not for everybody. People set for story-wise will be lost right away if they didn't properly understand the video game. Certain elements of this movie require you know key events in the past game. Sadly the story is mostly linear and focuses around Cloud's rise again to save the planet from a new enemy and an enemy that threatens to cause the rebirth of a primary foe of Cloud. At the end it leaves you wishing that it gave most of a background (which comes into play that they expect you to play the old game). I watched Advent Children a lot of times and at the first watch, I erased my mind and looked at it from a perspective that you've never played the game before. I was immediately lost. The feeling I got was that I didn't care for most of Clouds teammates at all. You barely get to hear about what they've been up to or what's been going on. I then watched it from a gamer's perspective that just completed the game; I found it very intriguing and exciting. But sadly still does not explain the end scene of Final Fantasy VII... anyhow it really wasn't an end scene anyway... Just like... a clip sort of speaking. If the movie was longer and explained more elements, this would be a flawless movie. But as of this point, the sound was great, the art was definitely great, the storyline was standard, and over all only fans of the series and of 3D modeling and design will be able to truly appreciate this work of art.
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8.5000 (very good)
Reviewed by SplinterCell, Dec 22, 2005
Animation is a perfect 10? You're avvin' a laugh, mate. Other than the battle animations, most of their movements looked a tad stiff. I DARESAY Spirits Within is notches higher in terms of graphics details and animations.
Other than that, I mostly agree on your comments though I'd give the storyline a 6, art-8, sound-8 and the whole presentation a 7. But meh, it's your view.
You did a very good job on this review! Well, that's my opinion ^^' I have seen this movie already too ^^
i think it's a good review :) the animation is indeed very well-done! and if the movie is longer, it'd be so much nicer ^^
To me, the movie seemed to rush the whole time. It seemed like they had a lot of great ideas just woudln't be able to afford making anything longer. The movie was great though.
it's ok but I think I'll only give it 7.5/10 overall..
first the story is a bit dragged on plus the characters are a bit stiff..
but the graphics are nice and I'll credit them for that
best cg movit to come out by square! loved it... i even had to play ff 7 again then watch it cuz it was that good...good dramatic storyline...lotsa action!
the spirits within was wack.. the characters were stiff and they didnt seem to know how to act..
Advent Children is indeed a breakthrough in 3d animation.
This is a great movie. You need to have this movie. So unless you want to wait for the US version I recommend to buy it at any good overseas retail store!
nice movie.....but didn't like how only his friends helped him for 5 minutes...that should've improved.....
the movie was soo good, i love the matrix parts XD
it's such a great film...i hope they dont mess up the english version with crappy voice actors
Right. 3 words. A good movie ;)
Hah! This animated movie is one of the best I've seen(the other; TSW). Good graphics.. and I'm really glad
Nobuo's doing the music/sound. It spices up the movie. And, yeah.. as above; I hope they don't screw up the
English voice acting. Perhaps thats why they're dragging the English release? >_>
Quote by chore-boyit's such a great film...i hope they dont mess up the english version with crappy voice actors
yea i hope so too. but they prob. will the majority of animes that has been dubbed were killed with the voices. its better to jst sticking with reading the subs. but i loooooved this movie. i watched it more than 4 times literally. :D
I didn't play the original game so as you say, i'm really quite lost ><" but then, i really enjoyed watching the movie~! Hey! Which 3D animation can be more cooler than this? (For now lar) And when they're battling, they're so cool and the jumpings made me wanna do it T_T Tifa's sooo ka-kui~ when she fought, she fought wit style too!
good job on the review, real great. myself i'd give the movie a perfect 10 with two thumbs up! it was the best, but i hope that this is the end of it. the final fantasy 7 story has so many spinoffs some and i said some, might get tired of it... SOME people WILL!
Final Fantasy Advent Children is a great movie to watch. The graphics are so realistic. The story line is good too. Also the action is awsome. You have to put in slow motion just to keep up with it. Can't wait to see the english version though. XD
look all of you the movie is so narmall but is cool the pictures and you konw........ evreything is fine but it need verson 2 a bout thir future it will be more buotifull.
Yeah, I love this movie, I've watched it countless times and I still love it. I definitely agree that it shouldn't be dubbed, the voices just won't be the same, lol. The fight scenes in this movie rock, I also love how you can now see all the characters in the games almost lifelike instead of the highly pixelated PS version of them.
Blade is awasome........ I wonder, how he defies gravity?
i really appreciated the flawless graphic of this movie as well... astounding, absolutely amazing and mind-blowing.
This is a really good review! i;ve learnt a lot about the sound espcially! Thank you ^^
I like it ! but i don't like just one thing .... My Aerith is really cute but here scenes just ... T T .... btw great work, thnx!
I love the movie so much
I watched it so many times,
and I have some of the music from it as well
it's so awesome XD
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