Cowboy Bebop - The Movie

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Summary: Cowboy Bebop--The Movie
Review: I was rather new to anime in general, let alone Cowboy Bebop, when I spotted this movie in a Blockbuster. I took it home and watched it; and I was in love. Excellent animation, great voice casting (and dubbing!) and an overall well-done plot combine to make this one of the best movies I have ever seen. I'm definitely going to watch the series.
While definitely rated R, this movie is a wonderful effort. I would highly recommend it.
And no, I'm not going to tell you what happens. What kind of a movie reviewer do you think I am?

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Summary: knockin' on heaven's door
Review: i hate it when foreign movies come out in america and they change the title. the originally title of this movie is, "Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door". but instead they changed it to "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie". yes, we all know it's a movie, but hey, maybe it's just me.

everything in this flick is still great. all the voice-actors from the show are back and sound great, as well as the music. i was fortunate enough to see this in the theaters, and it was glorious. i wish there were more animes on the big screen.

the story is about the usual crew and their mishaps. they get a bounty on a guy named Vincent, in one way or another, and go after him. Of course Faye goes off in her own way, as does Spike. Jet acts as the mediator, like usual and Ed and Ein are still mostly entertaining background noise. but Ed does some useful computer hacking and such. there's not much backstory on Vincent, but that's okay. all the action sequences are amazing and the animation is top notch. the movies climax is one of anime's best, ending in a showdown on a Eiffel tower duplicate.

so if you like the show, you will like the movie. it's just another episode, except dragged out. so it's almost impossible for it to keep the same fast pace as the tv show, but it doesn't slow down for long. buy this if you like good anime or even if you've never heard of this Japanese form of animation. it's a great movie none the less. i hope they make another movie, since the show is over and this one was a success. if they do, i hope they revolve it around the relationship between Spike and Vicious and the whole Red Dragon organization. that would make for a hell of a movie in my book. but this one will have to do for now. great movie, great series, great great great.

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Summary: Cowboy Bebop - The Movie
Review: The series is great and well-animated. Even when the action slows down, the animators took enough time to make the movement flow without the usual choppiness you see in other series. *****One point to note and totally unrelated to the series itself is to BEWARE of sellers who are trying to sell bootlegged and pirated copies of this movie as "IMPORT" and/or "ALL REGION." Pretty much anything that is described as such is a Chinese or Taiwanese PIRATED copy that sometimes have problems playing in DVD players because of the low-quality product they duped the movie on*****

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Summary: Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Review: Fans of Cowboy Bebop should love this movie, for it is a worthy film.

Taking place between Episodes 22 and 23, the Bebop is patrolling around Mars in late October, a few days before Halloween. Faye is headed to get the bounty on a young hacker...but the vehicle she's following isn't being driven by a young hacker. A mysterious tall man, dressed in black, steps out of the truck, which explodes. People in the surrounding area fall violently ill. Spike and the rest of the Bebop get involved in this, and the fate of Mars rests on their shoulders. The film is packed with superb action scenes, a jaw-dropping chase scene, some rather hillarious moments, and lots of great music. The plot is very enjoyable, and fits right in the with Bebop universe.

A must see for fans of Cowboy Bebop!

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Summary: Simply Amazing! Just what you expect from Cowboy Bebop!
Review: Before I watched this movie, I had seen only one episode of Cowboy Bebop back when it first started playing on TV. I knew the characters, and some of the story, but other than that, I was pretty much clueless. Well, I was wandering through the used dvd section in a local video store and happened to see this for a good price, so I figured 'what the hey' and bought it. I have not regretted that decision yet. In fact, I have gone on to buy the Cowboy Bebop series!

This is definitely one of the favorites in my collection. Everything about it is just awesome, from the animation to the story to the voices. I prefer the English voices, as those are the ones I am familiar with, but the Japanese is just as good, although Faye sounds much younger than she is supposed to be.

Visually, this movie is a real treat. The movement is fluid, the colors are appropriate to the atmosphere, and hair and clothing move as they would in real life. The animators put some serious time and effort into making this movie as beautiful as possible.

The characters are some of the coolest I've ever seen. Faye is my favorite, although Spike is a very close second. I showed this to my mother and stepfather (English version of course), and mom has become an Ed fan. David likes Spike, and especially enjoyed the fight between Spike and Electra.

The music took a while for me to get used to, but once I did I found I liked it a lot. Very different from the J-pop and J-rock you normally hear in anime movies, thought I like that kind of stuff too.

When all is said and done, I think every anime fan needs to see some Cowboy Bebop at least once, even if it is just an episode or two. Personally, I recommend the movie as a good starting point. Worked for me!

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Summary: Gotta Knock a Little Harder!
Review: A man who lived in dreams, that's what he was...

After being delayed for over a year, our favorite bounty hunters come to the big screen in North America. I was lucky enough to see this in a movie theater, and damn was it worth it. Sure i had to travel an hour by train to see it in Times Square, but hey, it was that good. The movie in question is "Cowboy Bebop", and as a huge fan of the series, I was definetly salivating with seeing these characters on the silver screen.

Taking place between sessions 22 and 23 of the series, the film definetly does not feel out of place or just "stuck in" but a natural part of the series' tapestry.

Halloween, 2071. The movie starts out simple enough, in a scene that establishes who Spike Spiegel is and what he does, for those who don't know, he's a Bounty Hunter. He and his partner Jet Black take down an armed robber gang as the movie opens, and then we et to the real plot.

Enter Vincent, a mysterious villain in black, who blows up a tanker truck unleashing what seems to be an airborne virus which kills dozens and hospitalized hundreds more. The government of Mars puts a 300 Million Woolong reward for his capture, and the only one who's seen him pull off this attack and could indentify him is our badass vixen: Faye Valentine. Naturally, Faye decides to go after him on his own.

Sounds simple, but this movie is a lot deeper than that. There's a lot of twists and turns, conspiracies within conspiracies as Spike ends up teams up with a former soldier named Electra (who is also hiding secrets connecting her to Vincent) to take Vincent down before he unleashes his weapon on the entire Mars population

While the entire main cast is in it, this is definetly Spike and Faye's show, which Electra and Vincent end up sharing with them. And though they don't have as much to do this go, Jet, Ed and Ein are along for the ride and have their moments in the sun.

The plot is great, the animation is just gorgious, and the voice-acting is better than most American animated series and movies. The voice-actors from the series easily fall back into their roles, and you could watch this between Sessions 22 and 23 and it plays perfectly within the series. And as I mentioned in my series review, the English dub is actually superior to the original Japanese in this case.

The DVD release was nicely done with great extras talking to the series creators, Yokko Kanno and the voice actors from both sides of the Pacific. If all you've seen is a bootleg, the DVD is easily worth the $25 to pick up. Oh, and it's just known as "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie" here in the States. Apparantly Bob Dylan's lawyers did not approve of the title.

Are you living in the real world?

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Summary: A Good Appetizer
Review: The movie version of Cowboy Bebop is good if not better than the series itself. While the series had shorter time periods to work with, though allowing for each character to have his time, the movie fleshes out the action and emotions that didn't get exactly the justice they deserved in the tv series.

Don't get me wrong, both are great but for starters, anyone not familiar with the Bebop universe, should see the movie first, then go from there into the beginning of the series to see just how the Bebop and her crew wound up together and what their ultimate destiny's are.

The animation, english voice acting, directing, music and pretty much everything else are very top notch here. It may be one of the best adult cartoon movies you're likely to see; it's also one of the biggest hits overseas in a long time as well.

There are scenes that will make you cringe, smirk, feel melancholy and all the while I can be sure you won't want to take your eyes off until the end.

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Summary: One of the best films ever made
Review: This film takes an up to date problem of terror and puts it in a futuristic setting. Even if you are not a fan of japanese animation you can enjoy this film. The story is enjoyable by anybody. Anyone who has not seen this film has to be close-minded and needs to broaden their horizens and open their mind to new things. BUY THIS MOVIE!!!!!!

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Summary: Absolutely Fabulous.
Review: This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I watch it every Otaku Friday. (Otaku Friday is a holiday my friend and I made up, the last friday of every month. We watch anime, read manga, eat pocky, and generally be especially geeky.)

The animation is beautiful. More so than in the series, even. I must admit, I'm partial to the parts where Faye is in Vincent's apartment-thing. Why? The lighting is great, and Faye's hair looked incredible. (^_^;) I'm always inexplicably amazed by how great the parade looks. I haven't a clue why, maybe it's the light; I really like afternoon sunlight. I've been trying to find a screenshot of the scene around the middle (I think) where it's just the city, looking *very* cool.

The music, as expected, was eargasmic. I especially loved the ending theme, 'Gotta' Knock A Little Harder.' The track played during Faye's first scene in the movie, 'Cosmic Dare,' was very fun, and so was 'Pushing the Sky,' played when the airplanes were flying. Also, I loved 'What Planet Is This?!', which was played during a very fun spaceship chase/fight scene.

The story was engaging. I'm in love with the whole idea, and they did a very good job 'telling' it.

I know people who have seen the movie and didn't even know that the series existed. That says a lot for the movie. It's not only good on the merits of the series; It really is great all on it's own.

If you enjoy enjoying things... You should buy this.