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Summary: Don't buy unless your a Diehard fan
Review: Hardcore fans are going to vote against me on this but thats ok because I'm writing this for everyone else. Don't buy any of the Neon Genesis series until you watched it first. Rent it, borrow a friends copy - what ever. Make sure you want to spend the money first. This DVD is a remake of the ending to NGE because the original TV series ending was such a disapointment. And yet, The End of Evangelion is just as disapointing as the original ending. The problem in simple terms is this: people watch NGE and other Mech type Anime mainly for the battles, and so they expect for the finally a great Mech battle to climax the series. NGE on the other hand turns into a philosophical discourse that goes on and on and on! Don't get me wrong, the battles in the first two-thirds of the TV series were great and the first half of this movie looked promising, but the ending is such an anti-climax you feel like throwing the DVD in the trash. Besides, if you want an Anime about "Whatis reality", Serial Experiement:Lain does a much better job.
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Summary: This is what again?
Review: When I first started watching this Series, I was like ok.
And by the end it was instead, what exactly happened here? In amongst the what I call touched by the hand of Specialness, You loose all coherent logic on what actually is happening in this series.
It is like the Director Took most of the stuff in the bible, Added Futuristic Japanese robots, and Made it all hyper sick in the brain. If I wanted to see the worst movie I've ever seen, I would have popped in Pootie Tang. Yet Again its Like the Director Decided that the Series wasn't Bad Enough So he just added in a bunch of drug induced extra story points, then took a paint can and dumped it every where.
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Summary: The only way it could end.
Review: Anno's brilliant series finally comes to its shattering conclusion in this masterpiece of animation. This film is like the Eva Series boosted to the extreme. From the very start of the film it sets out to shock you and question the characters you thought you knew from the series. Not to say the characters have been altered in any way. This way more violent then the series and continues the sense of impending doom that was the staple hold of the second half of the series only to break it when its finally all over. This is the only way Neon Genesis Evangelion could come to an end. I can't believe some people acctually expected a 'happy' ending, I thought it made it quite clear from the start of the series that this was about the end of everything. Even though the title of the film is quite self explainatory, the twist in the ending is truly shocking and the film drops you at the end in one of the best endings to a film i've ever seen. Ignore those who obviously missed the entire point of the series and watch this with an open mind.
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Summary: Incoherent and Horrifying? Yes. Brilliant? Well.....
Review: Neon Genesis Evangelion is one of about four anime series that I have ever watched more than a couple of episodes of and is one of my favorite fictional works in any medium. I greatly enjoyed its incredible and complex plot, its convincing and sometimes unconventional character development, and its incredible designs and animation. Its underplayed and abstracted ending made the perfect denoument to the incredible series. So why the movies? Basically, they're there to provide an alternate high-budget ending for dissatisfied fans. The argument for watching the movie as a opposed to the television ending is that the plot is addressed more clearly and literally, which it is for about its first half. It clearly elucidates upon the circumstances leading up to the fates of some characters shown in scenes of the final two episodes of the series. However, after that the movie must again resort to abstraction - it's the only way to convey the message that director Hideaki Anno means to express. However, rather than the thoughtful introspection of the series finale, it is more disjointed and includes far more Judeo-Christian elements, which were used by a Japanese director with the intent of mystifying a Japanese audience. They weren't intended to make sense to someone from an Asian background, and as a result they make no sense to anyone from a Western background, either. There's some interesting metaphysical ground that you could cover with some of the ideas presented, even the disjointed religious iconography. However, most of them are better conveyed in the television ending, in my opinion. The movie is still very technically solid - the animation is beautiful, if somewhat disturbing at points, the English voice-over dubs are top-notch, and the design work is just as incredible as in the series. It boils down to personal preference, I suppose. Just keep in mind that the ending of Evangelion is essentially the same regardless of the incarnation (the exact same events are portrayed in both endings), save for the final resolution, which actually makes more sense in the TV version. If you were unhappy with the final two episodes of the series, you can try the movie for a different presentation of essentially the same thing. If you liked the television ending, the movie is a needless re-hashing of the same events with a less satisfying ending.
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Summary: An end to the end that never was an end ... it never ends.
Review: So you've seen the Evangelion series, and you thought the ending was atrocious. You've seen the first Evangelion movie, Death & Rebirth, and realized, after a long, boring ride of re-hash, that it cut off RIGHT when things began to get moving. So now you are onto the FINAL, final, End to all Evangelion period, and you're gonna buy this DVD. Surprise, surprise! You'll get your ending, but just another Japanese mecha sized m---le finger to the audience and fan. While 'End of Evangelion' begins and ends with a lot more movement and style then the first film, it still proves that the top honcho of this series CAN'T find the guts to write a cohesive story or decisive ending. If you haven't been blinded by the aura of the animation, or the deperate hopes that anime will redeem itself in the writing department to make up for its world class artwork, you will see what I mean. The final line of dialogue really sums up what the creator/writer thinks of himself, and his inability to create an ending, as exemplified by a crying Shinji, surrounded by a sea of Fanta, unable to complete his task and wallowing in his own sorrow and pity. 'DISGUSTING.....'
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Summary: Disgusting
Review: The perfect review for this movie is that of imperium2000. I totally agree with him and can't really add anything else. This end is not just confusing and irritating like the original but also is disturbing and -unlike the series- heavy with religious emphasis. It left me with a hollow feeling and I felt -quoting from Asuka in the movie-....................disgusted.
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Summary: To watch it, or not to watch it....
Review: End of Evangelion--what can I say about such a brilliantly incorehent and horrifying film? A lot! But before I review this, a message to other reviewers--please, try and get your facts straight before you do a review. There are too many common misconceptions going around, of them being... Misconception: This movie was just a big FU to the fans because they wanted a better ending than the original.
Truth: A little bit, it is, but EoE was essentially the original ending they wanted to make in the first place. The reason the 'original' ending we have to the series was made was because they ran out of money near the end, plus it was too violent for television. So Anno and team basically chose to string together half-assed philosophical discussions to save cash on animation. Misconception: Everyone dies, and Shinji is going to repopulate Earth with an incarnation of his 3 dream women in Asuka's body.
Truth: Asuka is just Asuka, and no one else. She is beside Shinji at the end because, if anyone can recall, anyone can return to physical form if they want to. ANYONE. And Asuka and Shinji were just the first to do so. They are not the new Adam & Eve. There, with that out of the way, maybe a few more people will not believe those annoying misconceptions. (The truth stated above is from the actual creator of the show as well, if you're questioning my sources.) This movie is pretty good for a few reasons, one of them being, it's very messed up, and I would definately recommend it for a horror movie marathon. Cause although the average horror movie will startle you, EoE will MESS YOU UP AND PUT YOU IN THERAPY! Which, of course, is always a good thing...
So next Hallowe'en, when you and your Eva loving friends get together, pop in EoE, and watch them soil themselves... or kill themselves. Whichever comes first. EoE is excellent horror movie material, if only you didn't have to watch the whole series to know what's going on. What else makes EoE great, is it's so disturbing you may just throw up. And isn't throwing up fun? It is! Unless you do it too much... than it's sickening. Yeah, I know, who could imagine that throwing up could mean you being sick? And l forget the awesome Asuka vs. Mass Production Evas fight scene, because it was truly incredible and beyond freaking belief! Almost beyond the belief that the religious symbolism had a purpose! So, I say again, THE ACTION IS IN-FREAKING-HOLY-PLASTIC-TOILETS-CREDIBLE!!! *calming down overacting fanboyness....* End of Eva, see it, or don't. Either way I really don't care cause your decision doesn't effect me in any direct way whatsoever. But if you are going to see it, please make the effort understand it, and perhaps, just perhaps, the overall baka level of the world will go decrease. (Though I doubt it...)
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Summary: Interesting, but not a masterpiece
Review: End of Evangelion was an interesting end to the series but I have to admit it left me with a very hollow feeling. The series as a whole had the same impact/ effect. It started off very, very, strong, one of the best anime series I've seen in fact. But, about midway through it started to unravel and devolve into a whiny teenager that cries and moans for the entire rest of the series. While most of the characters show personality and growth as people throughout the series, the main character (Shinji) continues his pervasive whining and crying up to the bitter end while showing no development other than to be very, very, annoying to the point where I don't care about his mental state or what he feels, I just want him to shut up, stop whining/crying (whatever he's doing during that particular episode/scene), or do *anything* but complain and mope. The antithesis of the "plot" - and I use that word very loosely - is that Shinji not only can't recognize that the people in his life care for him, but he rejects them constantly while at the same time screaming that no one cares for him. Tragic? I suppose, but the fact that nothing about him - his personality, his thought process, etc... - changes from episode one to the final scene in this movie really is really telling. So in the end when he has to choose between saving the world and destroying it, he opts for the latter due to the fact that he can't cope with human emotions. What really dropped the enjoyment factor of this movie is that throughout the whole of it Shinji, save the final few scenes, was either crying, screaming, whining, or acting totally comatose while destruction was raining down around him and the rest of the characters (whom were all subsequently killed) were trying to do something or fighting through their issues and problems and growing/ evolving as people. At the end there's some answers... more if you look at the imagery, remember back to some instances in the series, and think about the theology and the symbolism, but when it's all said and done, the movie did little more then to kill off all of the characters that actually did grow and evolve as people during the series and reveal Shinji as an emotionally stunted and perverted character that was left to determine the fate of the entire race.
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Summary: Dazzling.
Review: As a fan of various anime and manga, and generally one who goes for the uncut subtitled forms, I was still particularly awestruck by the dubbed version of Anno's masterpiece Evangelion. This movie makes up for the confusing ending of the television series and equally odd Death and Rebirth. (Don't get me wrong, I loved the movies and series.) It is most definitely a timeless piece of animation, but viewer beware- the movie contains rather graphic and gory scenes, horrifying imagery, and apocolyptic battles, as well as nudity and sexual situations. (Not really recommended for ages under 15.) It comes together with an ending that makes you wonder, though I'm not here to spoil that. All in all, Anno's story of religious background and apocolyptic scenery make for a beautiful piece of art. I give 5 stars.
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Summary: The End of everything
Review: This is the most beautifull film I`v ever seen. Period!
I dont know if it`s just me but i felt the best feeling in my life when shinji decided to end it all, I kinda felt reliefed. The characterization is most excellent throughout the entire series and the two theatrical versions. I "was" shinji from start to finish, it was that good. Well to end it all it was a story about communication and love. Director Hideaki Anno himself said that "dont let the past stop you from inheriting the future, move on!" My personal favorite film on DVD Reccomended highly if you have seen the series and loved it. Btw, the last two episodes, "Do you love me?" and "the beast that shoutet "I" at the heart of the world" was excellent so dont bother to listen to the fools who thinks othervice.
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