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Slayers - The Motion Picture

Slayers - The Motion Picture

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Short and sweet
Review: If you're looking for something short, funny, and entertaining with a bit of adventure mixed in, Slayers: The Motion Picture is it.

Plot: The movie begins with the introduction of the main character, Lina Inverse, a powerful sorceress. She meets Nahga, her supposed most powerful rival(certainly the most well-endowed and having the most annoying laugh on earth) during a battle, when they decide to work together. From then on they fight all sorts of stereotypical male enemies together and embark on a journey to Mipross island where all sorts of insane, funny, and sometimes deep, adventures await(including an evil jellyfish cult). Entertaining and involved plot, with minimal but well-done character development.

Animation: The animation is good(especially the character animation), but nothing special. The backgrounds are slightly washed out.

Subtitles: Fairly true to dialogue with some discrepancies in translation. However, unless you're a big Slayers fan who knows all the spells and names by heart, it won't bother you. Mostly well done, legible.

Audio: Good. Nothing to write home about.

Overall: Slayers: The Movie's appeal lies mostly in its ability to give you a good dose of comedy and adventure in an hour and a half. It leaves you satisfied without you having to go out and buy the entire series. You might be better off renting it, however, unless you're a big Slayers fan. Although very well done, not really the kind of movie to see over and over again.

Enjoy!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: AWESOME ANIME!!
Review: It is great... Naga is a roit... Lina is so cute!!! Great example of quality comedy anime...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Simply put...it rocks
Review: Lina Inverse is definetly my hero. Though I'm a fan of the TV series characters, I loved the cast for this. It was a great plot, easy to follow, and gave you some stuff to work with if your not to familiar with the sereis. I make all my non-anime fan friends watch it, and even THEY love it. Nahga adds dimention to Slayers humor, and Lina just plain kicks butt

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Slayers is...
Review: perhaps one of the funniest anime movies ever. Its got good animation, and great voice acting... A must see.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A good quality movie, but fairly childish
Review: Slayers does have good animation and good dialogue, but you can tell by the way the characters act that this movie was made for children. For a children's movie it's great, but if you want a good fantasy movie look elsewhere.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good, but not as good as it could have been
Review: Slayers the Motion Picture, the first of the Slayers movies, is quite good. Though ADV couldn't get Ortiz to play the part of Lina in the English version, the new Lina is quite good. The only thing that keeps me from giving a five star rating is ADV's rewriting, that is, the renaming of a spell name that was already in English in the original Japanese and inserting references to other work that was not originally present. The subtitled version has many of the same problems, though does a little better.

But, this is only worth one star off. The rest of the movie, the quality of the dub acting, and the humor make up for shortcomings in the translation, assuming that Naga doesn't scare you off.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent movie! Great plot! Excellent drawings by Rui-san!!
Review: Slayers, the wonderful world of Lina Inverse and Naaga the serpent...
An excellent plot.
I personally believe that this movie is MUCH MUCH MUCH better than all the series... Actually, SP storyline is better than the Slayers Storyline, so... 5 STARS FOR GEKIJOUHAN SLAYERS!!! ^^;;; END

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent anime with (surprisingly) NO TECHNO!
Review: Slayers: The Motion Picture follows the powerful sorceress Lina Inverse and her obnoxious cohort Nahga the Serpent to Mipross Island, where they fight for a love lost long ago, and set right what went so wrong when a Demon attacked the Island's celebrating citezens. If you like magic and mayhem, this is an excellent choice. If you like all anime: get it. It's a refreshing change of pace from the techno and mechs you see so often in today's anime.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Slayers at its best!
Review: Slayers: the Motion Picture is excellent, a must see for any true anime fan. Starting off with the great and beautiful sorceress Lina Inbaasu(or Inverse in the dub) in a dream sequence, to a quick incline of action and magical splapstick, (one cannot forget the great Naga's kyukum supin/seacucumber spin spell), with of course an ingeinious (yet ugly) demon adversary, Joylock! To top it all off, there's even a Gabriev, (For the Slayers fan we know Gourry the block-head Swordsman to be a Gabriev), and the densetsu no Hikari no Ken! The Legendary Sword of Light! Accomponied by excellent animation, and a terrific job of voice acting, this title couldn't get any better. (Well.. maybe if Naga wouldn't laugh so much in the end.. or at all..)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Slayers Is For Otaku Everywhere
Review: The movie itself was the best of the four Slayers movies that I've seen. It has plot, good character development for Naga and Lina and overall everything that is to be expected of Slayers except for one thing. That is consistancy in subtitling between Software Sculptors and ADV Films. For instance, Explosion Array is actually called (gasp) Dill Brand. How does ADV plan to explain how the spell Mega Brand is not translated as Mega Explosion Array? They can't. Furthermore, Gaav Flare is not Guard Flair. Gaav is one of the primary antagonists in Slayers NEXT. ADV would have known this if they had watched the original series, but apparently they didn't. In the end, I believe this movie deserves 5 stars. It has everything that a good comedic anime film should have and more. Unfortunately, because of how much the bad subtitling bothered me, I only gave it four stars. I recommend this to anyone who enjoyed the original Slayers, but only if bad subtitling doesn't bother you.


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