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Summary: Dragonball Jonez and the Moonraker Temple of Doom
Review: The packaging touts this movie as a blend of Indiana Jones and James Bond, but there's a little too much Dragonball Z in the mix for my liking. All the tired old anime cliches and tropes are trotted out- cyborgs, super-agent schoolboy with myterious past and numbered tattoo, doomsday devices, floating fortresses, genius child villain psychic; and are thrown together with a bunch of tired old live action movie cliches- chases through alley way markets, mysterious ancient ruins, jungle fights, benign mad professor with gadgets and beautiful bespectacled assistant, loose cannon agent and older more earthed offsider. The sum is magically somewhat less than the parts. The animation and action sequences are superlative, but for me it's a case of all style and little substance, or attempt at innovation.
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Summary: Wow that was bad. . .
Review: Well to start i will give the stats based on 5 stars
Music-2,Plot-1,Art-4, Characters-1, DVD Quality-2
From what i heard of the music it was pretty bad, i didnt hear very much since i was in the bathroom half the time throwing up from lack of plot. The plot was incredibly rediculous...parts of it were rip off's of Akira (which i recommend) Things go completely unexplained in the plot and there are many holes all around. You dont even know the main characters name because all he gets called the whole movie is "Spriggan" or "Cockroach." There is a little dork in control who doesnt seem the least bit evil or scary...ANd then there is that blonde spriggan guy, LOL He's supposed to be french right? Well halfway thru the movie his lame little accent goes Spanish, and then at the end sounds totally Irish. HAH, well overall this movie is a definite no... the sound goes from being loud to so soft you cant even hear what the characters are saying. Frankly if i could give this any less than a star i would.
Go checkout Trigun, Cowboy bebop, Captain Tylor, or RANMA! Amazon has some great deals on those... Or if you're looking for movies, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Princess Mononoke.
Heed my warning! I dont know how this movie got such a high rating!
-A dissapointed viewer
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Summary: Action Packed but....
Review: Spriggan was a very well animated, action-packed film. It has a semi-creative plot with noah's ark as being an alien artifact (this aspect may offend some of the more harcore christians out there, but please understand that in Japan christianity is not the dominant religion). The whole high school kid working for a secret organization thing is pretty unorigional especially among anime films. The movie is really nothing more than action with a decent plot which is really more of an excuse for violence. Of course with that said the movie does do it's job for it's 90 min running time it entertains and entertains well. The lack of plot and creativity just makes it hard to come back to (although there are some awesome visuals). Basically good but not great.
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Summary: i felt like shooting myself after watching this movie!!!!
Review: spriggan is quite possibly the worst display of what japenese animation can be. its animation and fight secnes were really good but that was all.....the story was lacking (if not non- existant). i mean ist supposed to be about noahs arc.......so how do they fit dinosaurs in there? (im not kidding there were actually dinosaurs......dont ask me how) if ou really want a good action anime that has at least some semblance of a story line get akira or outlaw star. if youre new to anime steer clear of this one lest it tarnish your opinion of the genra forever..........but seriously get akira.......it rox!
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Summary: Bloody
Review: It is a good story, and it is well animated, but be warned the blood does fly, much more than is necessary. So if blood splatter is not your thing, then you may have difficulty enjoying this one.
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Summary: when imagination becomes animation
Review: When I first learned anything about Spriggan was when I read the manga of the same title (Thai versions). I just happened to come across it at my friend's house and consumed every volume available at the time in a single night. It was so fun and addictive. Because of the immensely intriguing plot and the sheer scale of the backdrop depicted in Sprigan's world, I didn't expect any animated installation to come forth for it will be impossible to transfer Sprigan with just average cheap budget anime series. But someone has finally done it into the high-budget movie version!
Spriggan the movie has lived up to my highest expection and more. The action is incredibly slick yet so powerful. It simply doesn't get any better than this. Even if you don't like the plot you won't have any trouble appreciating this movie just only because of its finest animation sequence. The plot of the movie is based on my favorite Sprigan's mission in the manga (i think from volume2)accompanied with short and brief character introduction. Its biblical setting is so attractive and should be easily welcomed by western audiences. However, the character introduction was not good enough and may leave some fans hanging. For that matter, in manga, Spriggan team composed of three members not two (the other one being a chinese kungfu master who is the best in the team) and Jean-Jacques is actually a werewolf with bullet-like speed and immortality in his pocket. For anythig else, everything from pacing, music, voice acting, and ending all seem perfect to me and I have nothing to complain.
What I 'dlike to mention is that the reason I think that some western audiences fail to appreciate this feature is that: they don't have any manga background before. In the west, the access to japanese manga seems to be very poor compared to Asian countries like Thailand (which has almost every single titles available in Japan). Thus, when it comes to an anime movie that has poor character-intro western fans can get easily confused since everything is so abrupt. Anyway, this is the one title worth checking out.
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Summary: Spriggan -- bloated, pretentious and overrated
Review: "Spriggan" is a jumble of mismatched thoughts, over-used themes, heavy handed action, and mid-quality animation. The plot plods from one point to another without much continuity. The praised action sequences are long, boring, and bloody: in anime standards, it's adequate. It does not have the details of modern combat like "Ghost in the Shell" or even "Patlabor II" but lots of bullets from a cyborg-with-a-mini-gun-for-an-arm, and the flying fury of some little guy who throws knives (hmm. we haven't seen those before). What about characters? Development? What development? The story revolves around a high school student who is the top operative of a secret organization that guards all ancient religious relics (??), and the movie centers around the finding of Noah's Ark. There really isn't too much more to the story than that, except the big showdown at the end with a psionic bio-engineered child that is the United States' SECRET WEAPON. If this description doesn't make you cringe, it should. This anime is the equivalent of a bad Hollywood action film (think "End of Days" BAD) and represents the art/entertainment form of anime terribly. If you are looking for a better purchase, look up "Jin-Roh", "Princess Mononoke", or even the hammy "Gundam" series.
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Summary: not for everyone...
Review: if you are a well-watched anime fan, you will find this to be another example of rehashed plots and overly long, cliche battle scenes. the animation gets a 'b' for fluidity, and there are some good action sequences, but a 'c' plot holds this title back.
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Summary: action fan's rejoice
Review: EXCELLENT MOVIE... A must see for any action anime fan... Basically its Akira meets Metal Gear Solid and kick azz action throughout the whole movie... Alot of action anime's don't dish out a great story you need to get in depth... but in the end of Spriggan it explains everything and really get's your hopes up! I recommend this to anyone who loves a good story and GREAT non-stop action.
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Summary: greatest anime i've ever seen
Review: last night when i was at my local electronics store i had an extra 25$ on myself so i decided to pick this up i got home ate dinner real fast put it in my dvd player and started watching what's soon to be quite possibly the greatest movie i've seen.when i first started watching this movie i didn't understand it but it got much better through the movie,although the animation isn't good i loved the movie plot and the action scenes are breathtaking especiallywhen yu slices up his old commander and the ending was dramatic enogh to make me cry like a five year old girl when her best dress was ruined.so you like anime.....buy it now!
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