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Summary: Its is basically a good anime
Review: It is a ok movie. You really have to be able to take in a lot of information to under stand the plot or story line and i must say it lake an explanatory ending but thats what drives most people away form the movie. yet it has great animation and a good story line if you can take it in.
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Summary: A great anime that makes you think
Review: Massamune Shirow challenges even a person whose used to twisting and turning anime plots. The animation is as good as it gets and you'll find yourself questioning how much controll over technology we really have. I loved the film and have watched it over and over(I had to so that I'd finnaly get it.)
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Summary: Excellent Anime, and Demo worthy 5.1
Review: I've watched this DVD no less than 10 times, and I've thoroughly enjoyed each and every one of them (every time I've managed to discover something new). The story is excellent, and sans a few preachy parts (which were necessary to get the theme across in under 3 hours), the movie moves quickly. The animation is superb (only slight strangeness around the "Police" logo on the helmets, but that was present in the LD), and the English 5.1 track is demo-worthy (the tank battle scene is incredible), thankfully the dub is good, since the Japanese track is only 2.0.
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Summary: Over-hyped, over-rated.
Review: It tries to be too profound and complex, really. The art and animation are definitely sophisticated though. I liked the way they merged cel animation with computer graphics to give the visuals a realistic look and feel. Still, I've seen a lot of better anime.
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Summary: a movie for thinkers
Review: this was a splendid movie indeed!!the anamation was great!! story great !! action and deeper meaning, better then most blockbusters. the one complaint i have is that in the movie there are several instances where the director has set aside thinking time and that gets kinda annoying. Still a greAT BUY
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Summary: It SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: It was really boring, very boring
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Summary: Symblistic of all that ia ANIME.
Review: GITS has to be the greatest of all Anime fliks, it rivals even Akira and Neo-Genisis Evangaline. I have never in my life seen such tasteful and symbolical cartoon nudity. Movies such as these are not for children, they step out of the boundries that most comform to. GITS is a powerful and provokative look at the human life we have come to undermine.(Note: Be careful to look at what language the movie is in when you buy it.)
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Summary: A genre-bending, smart, exciting movie
Review: Ghost in the Shell takes its place with Akira as a film which transcends the conventions of anime and ventures into pure filmmaking. Combining elements of cyberbunk science fiction, espionage movies and film noir, this film presents us with a plausible future world in which many people are "enhanced", meaning they are either part machine, or as in the case of our heroine, The Major, an android with a "ghost", or a transplanted human soul. She is an agent for a government agency called Section 9, which conducts cybernetic espionage. She has been assigned to track down a superhacker who has found a way to infiltrate the electronic brains of other cybernetic organisms. Who or what the superhacker is is the central mystery of the film. The answer to the question is every bit as scientifically intriguing as it is surprising.Fans of William Gibson's fiction, and of that of Philip K Dick might find themselves in familiar territory, but what makes this movie great is the way it treats the audience like it is as least as intelligent as it's makers, something much Hollywood science fiction does not. It's mystery unravels the way a good Raymond Chandler novel does, the action sequences are every bit as taut and electrifying as any live action film, and unlike a lot of filmed science fiction, there is a modicum of actual science. the film does what all good sci-fi (filmed and printed) should do--it uses its premise as a spring board to ask interesting questions. This time, it's "What makes a human a human? If machines can display those same qualities, is there a point in even making a distinction?"It should also be noted that the animation in this film is of the highest quality, comperable to, but different from anything the Disney or Bluth studios. The movie has a distinctive look that separates it from the stylization that gives other anime their sameness.I'd reccomend this film to everyone, not just anime enthsiasts, or fans of science fition.
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Summary: intelligently written, beautifully conceptualized.
Review: This anime is simply spectacular. Crafted with the skilled artistry and fine attention to detail we have come to expect from our friends in the East, this film also combines elements of computer animation which enhance the overall sense of a highly technified future and add to the stunning artwork and rich animation. Particularly enjoyable are the beautiful and incredibly detailed music-accompanied sequences of scenes within the city; the dozens of intricately painted backgrounds alone are incredible. More than simply entertainment, this film raises intriguing questions about the soul and what it means to be human. This is one of my favorites.. in any genre.
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Summary: Absolutely fantabulous
Review: The movie builds and builds and it masterfully uses techniques of subtlety that just aren't seen anywhere except in the best of best drama. Great to see this stuff in a cartoon. Intelligently gripping, and some of the best anime I have ever seen...right up there with Akira, although that one figures more on mouth dropping value than actual aesthetic pleasure. DVD is a must for this movie as well...VHS does it no justice at all, especially with the quality of picture and sound. A top of the line experience.
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