Rating: 
Summary: A pretty darn good movie
Review: 'Slayers: The Motion Picture' is an anime film with a lot of qualities: Excellent animation, good humor and main characters that are quite detailed. It starts out a little slow and childish, but if you stick with the film the whole way through, you find it gets better and better. After seeing this video, I set forth on a mission to find and collect all the Slayers videos that I can. Great show!
Rating: 
Summary: Nothing To Write Home About
Review: * I tend to like really silly anime, but it turns
out that such stuff is about as hard to find as really
high-class anime, since there is a dangerously fine
line between inspired silliness and just being dumb.I had heard the SLAYERS TV series had said inspired
silliness. As AMAZON.COM was only selling full season
collections of the SLAYERS TV series in DVD, I decided
to get SLAYERS: THE MOTION PICTURE (STMP) as a sample. In this movie, petite sorceress Lina Inverse and her colleague, oversexed and underclad Amazon warrior /
sorceress Nagha the Serpent take an economy boat trip
to the magic disappearing island of Mipross, so they
can enjoy the hot springs there. Of course, as would
be the case with any self-respecting magic
disappearing island, the two find that things on
Mipross are Not Quite What They Seem ... OK, STMP is a mildly amusing bit of work, but it's
pretty much done by the numbers, "machine anime" as
I like to call it. The artwork is unremarkable, which
would not be such a problem if there were much of a
script, but the storyline is ho-hum and the humor
nothing to write home about. In particular,
I got very tired of the lame jokes about Lina being
flat-chested like the second time I got hit by one.
"Can we give this a rest, please?" But they didn't. However, I haven't given up on SLAYERS. The concept
seems to have potential, and sometimes an idea that
works at a short length weakens considerably
when stretched out to movie length -- for example, SPACE
JAM versus any of the really good seven minute Warner
Brothers cartoons (no comparison!). Besides, it is
nothing unusual for anime producers with a successful
series to do a tepid "knock-off" movie to milk what they've
got for a little more revenue. So I broke down and ordered VHS, much as I hate to these
days, to get the first installments of the SLAYERS TV
series without having to buy a whole season's worth.
We'll see.
Rating: 
Summary: Dungeons and Dragons Anime with Buster Keaton antics ...
Review: 3 stars might be a little harsh. 3.5 stars would be an accurate review from my view point. As with all the better anime series this has great art and design. Lina Inverse, sassy teenage ulta sorceress in an alternate fantasy universe, roams the land looking for adventure and finds more then enough. She quickly gets entangled with her greatest fan the skimpy clad, buxom Nahga the serpent; a bimbo sorceress with an annoying laugh and a vacation plan that begins the adventure rolling. The duo quickly get involved in an epic adventure of comical D&D action with strange superpowered magicians, sorcerers and demons. This adventure fleshes out an intriguing world from the docks, to cheesy nightclubs, spas, castles, dungeon hideaways and eventually into TIME TRAVEL! Ha! The violence is comedic, not gorey or disturbing in anyway. The characters are very charming and the ending is good. Great for guys, girls, kids....the whole family. Slight sexual reference involved to keep the dad's interested. My negatives are that the storytelling gets slightly confusing, the story structure is a little off kilter and the shot composition or choices are middle of the road, but not a bad anime when all is said and done. Made me buy the two OVA tapes 'Dragon Slave' and 'Explosion Array' which were even better then the movie. You won't regret this purchase.
Rating:
Summary: Great, but lacks some things.
Review: A great movie with lots of comedy, but a bit of a dissappoint if you're a Slayers fan looking for Zelgadis, Amelia, or Gourry. They're not in this movie.
Rating: 
Summary: A bit of everything for the anime otaku.....
Review: An American's first look at Naga the Serpent as Lina and Naga have another little mis-adventure in the island of Mipross. This movie has the typical Slayers humor, spell-tossing, and of course DRAGON SLAVE! Watch it, watch it again, and loan it to your friends. This movie is a good stand-alone introduction to Slayers and many times exceeds the series.
Rating:
Summary: Explosion what?
Review: As with most TV to movie features, Slayers the Motion Picture deviates significantly from the original TV series. The movie is a side story, of a younger Lina traveling with her friend and rival, Naga the Serpent. Through serendipitous events, the two end up vacationing on Mipross Island, a mysterious tourist spot famous for its hot springs. Here the two are beseeched to undertake a quest, to set right a wrong committed in the islands past, leading to the cliché high stakes conflict. Would it really be a movie without it? Despite the movie conventions, the comedy is outstanding and makes this a really enjoyable film. The stream of increasingly more powerful opponents succeed as memorable comic villains. The addition of Naga creates a quality, two-man comedy act. Though fans may be disappointed with the exclusion of the characters from the TV show, I think the humor works well, and fans will enjoy copious jabs at Lina's inadequacy complex. The DVD is not without it's merits. The menu is appealing and clear. The extras include a small cell gallery; music-video trailers for the movie and OAVs; and character-bios for the movie cast. The audio seems to be Dolby Digital 2 channel both English and Japanese. The dub, while not bad, just can't hold a candle to the Japanese dialog, especially Megumi Hayashibara's wonderful performance. The video seems too dark and may prompt you to adjust your monitor settings. My big gripe about the subtitle is the translation of magical spells from things like the phonetic "Dil-Brando" to the descriptive "Explosion Array". While understandable for the dub, the subtitle should have used a more literal interpretation. I really enjoyed this film but it may not be for everyone. As far as the DVD goes, I have to give it a three for the number of small gripes above, but I highly recommend watching this entertaining film.
Rating:
Summary: "So we meet again for the first time"
Review: Every reviewer is subject to certain embarrassing moments when they are solemnly reading or watching and suddenly a voice goes of in their heads that says "Yo!! This is funny!" I have spent so much time lately with the heavier anime films that it took me more than a few minutes to realize that 'Slayers' is a pure and joyous romp, full of sly and not so sly innuendoes, exaggerated action, and villains that are ridiculous rather than sublime. After puzzling over the dour messages of Akira or Evangelion this confection put together by Kazuo Yamazaki, based on the original work of Hazime Kanzaka and Rui Araizumi, is the perfect heart's ease. Lina Inverse is a mage endowed with considerable power, who is less fortunate elsewhere (I would not mention this if it were not for the fact that it is the film's longest running joke). Playing Cordelia to Lina's Willow is Nahga, another mage, but one whose blandishments are distracting. Nahga also has a bad habit of casting spells that create magical seafood salad. These two young ladies are off to Mipross Island to frolic in the hot springs and enjoy the scenery. Of course, all is not as wonderful as it seems. Lina is bothered by an old man who keeps interfering in her dreams, Nahga discovers the natural hot springs are fakes, and the two must conquer a string of 'toughest guys on the island.' Lina proves easily that she is really the island's toughest guy. Or, she almost does, at least until they run into Michigan J. Joyrock, a frog who also happens to be the toughest demon on the island. Now the two women and Rowdy the Sage are locked in a deadly fight with an impervious demon who has an irritating habit of going 'bwahaha.' Their only hope is to reroute the river of time itself. For a light-hearted farce with some burlesque dialogue, the film is very enjoyable. The plot never gets monotonous, the acting in both the English and Japanese versions is excellent, and the artwork is surprisingly good. The film may be silly, but it isn't trashy. By all means, track it down, and watch it a few times. Sometimes you just don't want to have to think.
Rating:
Summary: "So we meet again for the first time"
Review: Every reviewer is subject to certain embarrassing moments when they are solemnly reading or watching and suddenly a voice goes of in their heads that says "Yo!! This is funny!" I have spent so much time lately with the heavier anime films that it took me more than a few minutes to realize that 'Slayers' is a pure and joyous romp, full of sly and not so sly innuendoes, exaggerated action, and villains that are ridiculous rather than sublime. After puzzling over the dour messages of Akira or Evangelion this confection put together by Kazuo Yamazaki, based on the original work of Hazime Kanzaka and Rui Araizumi, is the perfect heart's ease. Lina Inverse is a mage endowed with considerable power, who is less fortunate elsewhere (I would not mention this if it were not for the fact that it is the film's longest running joke). Playing Cordelia to Lina's Willow is Nahga, another mage, but one whose blandishments are distracting. Nahga also has a bad habit of casting spells that create magical seafood salad. These two young ladies are off to Mipross Island to frolic in the hot springs and enjoy the scenery. Of course, all is not as wonderful as it seems. Lina is bothered by an old man who keeps interfering in her dreams, Nahga discovers the natural hot springs are fakes, and the two must conquer a string of 'toughest guys on the island.' Lina proves easily that she is really the island's toughest guy. Or, she almost does, at least until they run into Michigan J. Joyrock, a frog who also happens to be the toughest demon on the island. Now the two women and Rowdy the Sage are locked in a deadly fight with an impervious demon who has an irritating habit of going 'bwahaha.' Their only hope is to reroute the river of time itself. For a light-hearted farce with some burlesque dialogue, the film is very enjoyable. The plot never gets monotonous, the acting in both the English and Japanese versions is excellent, and the artwork is surprisingly good. The film may be silly, but it isn't trashy. By all means, track it down, and watch it a few times. Sometimes you just don't want to have to think.
Rating:
Summary: Slayers at its best.
Review: First of all, it's important to note that Slayers The Motion Picture follows the OAV story line of Lina and Naga, as opposed to Lina, Gourry, Emelia, Xelgadis, Xellos, etc. in the TV series. Onto the movie itself, very entertaining. It's your standard slapstick comedy mixed with a medieval adventure that you'd expect from a Slayers title, except with far better animation. The only thing that I am not happy about at all is the translation. It was just plain awful. Actually, most of the dialog was translated fine, but all spell names were completely renamed, even in the subtitled version, for no apperant reason.
Rating:
Summary: Great, but not what i quite expected.
Review: For someone who has never seen anything to do with the Slayers and then seeing this movie is pretty weird, i wasn't expecting an extremly funny anime about a young sorceress who saves a island with the hopes of bigger breasts! All in all it's great, funny, but not something that you would watch in front of your mom. This is because of the previews for animes with cutey honey (if you've ever seen this then you know what i mean.) Also Nagha's laugh is so annoying! Buy this, but don't watch with the old folks.
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