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Summary: This is almost too good to be true.
Review: I haven't seen this video, but I saw the movie on TV, and I have also seen the series. Here's the plot. The ancient demon Aku has come back to conquer the world. A young boy whose father first beat him is trained and brought back to fight Aku years later. Along the way, he meets Japenese seamen, Greeks, and Robin Hood! Before he can beat Aku, he is sent to the future, where Aku took over the world, and other planets for that matter. He tries to find a way back to his time. That's the plot of the movie and the cartoon series. Intense action scenes and wonderful animation really boost this one up. I mean in the movie, did you see what was happening with those crazy robots? They were killed in every way by Jack. The plot so modest, and the adventures so good, its one of the best shows on Cartoon Network. I heard that in the series the animators abanoded the black streak around the colors, which(if you notice) is how all the other cartoons are drawn!! I mean, that is like a milestone!!! Watch this, and enjoy. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Some of the reviews are odd
Review: I just wanted to defend the movie from a couple of the odder comments. The amazon review disparaged the talking dogs, but the dogs actually fit into Aku's future world quite well. They dogs even refer to a time in the past when they didn't talk and walked on all fours. These are dogs of the future! ;-) If you are a David Brin fan, pretend that dogs were uplifted at some point in the Aku timeline.
As for the comment about profusely bleeding characters, well, no, they are profusely leaking robots! The fluid is colored jet black, and squirts out of clearly mechanical beasties.
The overall art and style of Samauri Jack is something to see. One detail is that the animators don't use the black outlines common to much animation. The background are moody and watercolor-ish. It's a fun and interesting series.
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Summary: Samurai Jack
Review: I love the tv show of Samurai Jack and I think this movie is a great movie.The is no to violent its everything I thought it would be
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Summary: It's Not ShoNuff ... It's Samurai Jack
Review: I recently was flipping through the channel and captured (no captivated) by the Samurai Jack Cartoon on The Cartoon Network. The style was nothing short of mesmerizing, amazing, and (insert another thousand adjectives here). While talking with another fan of the series where I worked, I jumped online to see if there was a Boxset of the season or anything else. I came across this and just by looking at the technical specifications was cautious, but ordered it any (speed shipping in fact).
I popped it in the DVD Player the very first chance I got. I WAS BLOWN AWAY. For the duration of the 70 minute feature, I was paralyzed. I watched in awe as the style and story sucked me in. The art was amazing despite the simple look and very well directed. When the story took the step into the future, I saw how original this series was and how creative the makers truely were. It was Akira Kurisawa meets The Fifth Element.
The one aspect of the disc that I was the most impressed with was the superb sound design. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack rivals some of the best sounding DVD I have in my collection. The score entrances. The Ambient sounds sweeps from speaker to speaker as the camera weaves in and out of the action. The noise reduction adds a ton (literally) of tension in the quite moments before the nothing short of epic battle sequences.
For the price, you have to get this DVD if you're a fan or not. If you've never seen the show, trust me in saying it's worth the buy. If you're young or young at heart, it will carry you away. If you're a fan of Stylized directing, it will inspire you. Everyone should enjoy this DVD.
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Summary: It's Not ShoNuff ... It's Samurai Jack
Review: I recently was flipping through the channel and captured (no captivated) by the Samurai Jack Cartoon on The Cartoon Network. The style was nothing short of mesmerizing, amazing, and (insert another thousand adjectives here). While talking with another fan of the series where I worked, I jumped online to see if there was a Boxset of the season or anything else. I came across this and just by looking at the technical specifications was cautious, but ordered it any (speed shipping in fact).
I popped it in the DVD Player the very first chance I got. I WAS BLOWN AWAY. For the duration of the 70 minute feature, I was paralyzed. I watched in awe as the style and story sucked me in. The art was amazing despite the simple look and very well directed. When the story took the step into the future, I saw how original this series was and how creative the makers truely were. It was Akira Kurisawa meets The Fifth Element.
The one aspect of the disc that I was the most impressed with was the superb sound design. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack rivals some of the best sounding DVD I have in my collection. The score entrances. The Ambient sounds sweeps from speaker to speaker as the camera weaves in and out of the action. The noise reduction adds a ton (literally) of tension in the quite moments before the nothing short of epic battle sequences.
For the price, you have to get this DVD if you're a fan or not. If you've never seen the show, trust me in saying it's worth the buy. If you're young or young at heart, it will carry you away. If you're a fan of Stylized directing, it will inspire you. Everyone should enjoy this DVD.
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Summary: Be careful!
Review: I usually do not read the rates for the movies, but this time I thought that I should had read the rate before renting this movie. I am not easily surprised with violent movies, but Samurai Jack is extremely violent. This movie is rented and sold without a rate, but at least it should be P13. The movie is really original, but very violent. You can see characters beeing cut in half with a sword, some of them bleeding profusely. If you are getting this movie, you should watch it before your kids do.
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Summary: My kids love it, as do I as well. It's a great movie!
Review: I waited and waited to see this film, as I'm a collector of Samurai films as well as a martial arts student/teacher. (I've been in Martial Arts for over 27 years now - Tae Kwon Do, Hapkido, Ninjitsu/Jijitsu, Judo, Karate, Tai Chi, Kook Son Wul, Shotokan, Kung Fu, Kenpo, etc...) I also collect books and movies like "Lone Wolf and Cub/Shogun Assassin/Babycart Assassin/Babycart to Hades/etc..."
This Samurai Jack movie is really good. It actually portrays the Code of Bushido in the proper way (for an animation film). I was quite suprised. What also surprised me was who does Jack's voice - Phil LaMarr, the comedian. Who would have thought?! To end, I highly recommend this one and hope that Genndy Tartakovsky puts all 36 half hour episodes into a DVD box set, as I will SURELY buy it!
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Summary: I Will Not Fail You, Father!
Review: I waited two weeks for the Samurai Jack Movie to premeir on Cartoon Network. When I saw It I was simply blown away. The visual designs are stunning, the sound effects are powerful and the characters are charming.The story starts out in ancient japan, where the evil Aku has been defeated by Samurai Jack' father. But during a cataclystic turn of events, Aku is unleashed to wreak havok on Samurai Jack's Father's beloved empire. At this time, Samurai Jack is just but a mere child, and is sent away to train under the best fighters, wrestlers, martial artists, etc.
He comes back as an adult, and attempts to destroy Aku. Aku tricks him and banishes him to the future.
Once there, three bystanders witness him doing all sorts of flips and landings. For some odd reason, they dub him him 'Jack'.
Later, in a dance club, Jack meets up with a trio of talking dogs who tell him the sad story of how their race was imprisoned. Jack agrees to help them, and they fly off to the imprisonment and prepare for a giant battle against. At sunrise, a giant battle takes between Samurai Jack and Aku's minion's.
Samurai Jack wins and sets the dogs free, and at the closing, Aku swears he will destroy the Warrior. Personnaly, being a giant fan of action and science fiction, I loved the movie. Many people have had complaints aagainst the talking dogs, but this is from the creator of Deaxter's lab- one of the zaniest cartoons of all time.
So all I can say is it's a great DVD, loaded with tons of special features for the Samurai fan.
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Summary: better and more interesting than DBZ
Review: I was going through the TV when i came across the Cartoon Network when I saw a blue dog (Rockafeller i think his name is) along with a mastiff and a Scottish terrier. I was like ''this must that samuri cartoon'' I wacthed it and I fell in love with it. It was the premier of SJ that night and i watched the encor presentation. It was the best cartoon I had seen in a long time. I like DBZ but I have lost interest in it basically. Samuri Jack is naive but not as much of an airhead as Goku, Gohan or Vegeta can be on DBZ. Don't get me wrong. Last year's season of DBZ with Cell was great but this year's seaon was pretty slow. They could have gone without Goten( Gohan's little bro) who was as annoying as heck. This season was fine but Samuri Jack is the best! Justic League (the remake of the Super Friends) is great too. Also SJ is played by a guy named by Phil, which is my name. SHweet! My mom saw this show and she liked it! I hope this is a many episode series.
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Summary: This is a major stinker.
Review: I was pretty excited to get this DVD only to be very disappointed by it. Sure it is kind of innovative visually, but from an animation and story-telling pov, this is very disappointing stuff. When I watch animation, I don't want to see anything that was produced with the help of After Effects. I can see that stuff a mile away, and it just kills it for me. Also the artwork here, backgrounds, special effects, and character design are really on the sloppy side; especially the character designs. Ugly is too kind of a word to use to describe the secondary and background characters. Too bad too because I was really hoping this would be worth the money. But it is just same old stuff with new packaging.
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