The full on orchestral score compliments the epic grandeur that the story goes for. The sound track is always perfectly matched, never committing the cardinal sin of overpowering the inherent mood of a scene. As it is though, it is still brilliant, and a beauty to behold each and every second. The clunky character animations and the lack of long, and truly gratifying action scenes leave me with a slight, very very slight, feeling of disappointment in the visuals I feel like it was but 2 steps from blowing my socks off. The characters don`t look like digitized images of real people they retain a little bit of a cartoony feel, only with eons more detail than nearly every piece of animation in existence. The character animations don`t seem quite as smooth and effortless, but the gritty, post-apocalyptic setting and the striking realism in the skin tones and hair of The Spirits Within remains matchless. After trying my best to put all my biases aside to look at this as entertainment pure and simple, I`ve come to realize that despite its flaws here and there, it`s not half bad.ħ or so years after the fact, The Spirits Within still boasts visuals competitive with a newer Final Fantasy: Advent Children. My opinion of this film drastically changes depending on what I evaluate it against. Looking at it as an Anime, it puts the visual/audio of most films to shame, and its western blockbuster style is actually novel. As a Hollywood Sci-fi movie sitting next to something like The Matrix, it is racked with cliches, but an engrossing As an FF fan, this movie is a bit of a disappointment because it lacks a strong fantasy element and limit breaks (lets face it, we all want to see limit breaks). Reviewing this on an Anime website as a frequent movie goer and a fan of the Final Fantasy series, my perspective is, as you might expect, a little bit scattered. It sits at the midpoint between a Square style RPG and a Hollywood blockbuster. The Spirits Within is not like Anime at all. Think of it as nothing more than 'The Spirits Within', and enjoy it for what it is, not what many people hoped it would be. Watch it with an open mind, and forget it's called 'Final Fantasy'. It's not got much of a re-watch value, but I'd certainly say go and watch it once. Each was unique and, while I didn't learn a lot about them during the film, I felt they were created well.Ĭonsidering its length, the time, and the fact it's a part of a series which is loved by millions, I would certainly say this movie is under-rated. It added to the atmosphere, and all those sound effects we take for granted well sleak and done to perfection.Ĭharacters were nice, and better than the plot. The character voices were well cast and the music was serene. Better than the animation in FFVIII, which was being made at the same time. The animation was astounding the characters looked almost as real as they possibly could have done. story in its own right, but it doesn't compare to the game series. I preferred it to Advent Children since it was a However, it wasn't nearly as good as what people hoped it to be. There were a couple of unexpected moments, some romance, action, and some interesting ideas. It had some good qualities, but nothing new. The story was quite simple, but decent enough. It's not really what I would classify as fantasy. Okay, it didn't quite match up to the magical, epical, astounding, spellbinding, memorable, groundbreaking quality of the game series, but think of it as a normal SciFi movie and you'll be fine. The problem is the script, which reads like a Pokemon reject, confusing gibberish about the earth's spirit that does not do justice to the beliefs of environmentalists or pantheists.Despite what people say, this film was not awful. The dialogue is passable, delivered with panache by first-rate talent (Buscemi, as always, is a highlight). The post apocalyptic-settings are complex and believable. A scene with a soaring eagle is breathtaking, genuinely touching. The monsters are extraordinary creations, somewhere between dinosaurs, dragons, jellyfish, and squid. Movie fans might also find it distracting to hear such instantly recognizable voices (James Woods, Ving Rhames, Peri Gilpin, Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Donald Sutherland) coming from faces so incongruously different from our associations. But when we see something with so little difference from humans, it just makes clearer how important that difference is. In more standard animation, the conventions allow for a level of exaggeration and omission that allows us to project human-like reactions onto a character. They do less well when it comes to talking and, well, acting. The movie's effects work best when the "actors" are moving, because their movements are based on that oldest of animation techniques, rotoscoping.
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