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Summary: One bad Mother... I'm only talkin' about Appleseed
Review: This movie is quite the shocker for anyone who's never seen, heard, or read about this anime/manga. First time I saw this was when I was 12 taping it on my VCR infront of my parents and the first real thing they say in the movie is "Mother F***** come out with your F******* hands up you piece of S****....." So you can imagine how I was as shocked as they were except in a good way. This movie at times doesn't make much sense, but it's still good with all the action, swearing, emotion, realism, oh yeah did I mention the swearing. This movie is without a doubt worth getting. Parents can get it for there kids if they want. I mean it contains like no nudity as far as I can remember, and besides your kids are going to be introduced to swearing anyway. So why not teach them how to do it properly and when to do it with this as their guide. I hope this review was helpful.
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Summary: It's missing its second half
Review: Appleseed appealed to me with its simple escapist charm, but the storyline falls pathetically short of any resolution, and whatever moral questions it's asking are quickly buried under the frenetic action, never to resurface.In a nutshell, the plot involves an anti-cyborg terrorist faction and a duo of policemen who are out to stop them. Oh, and there's something about a renegade cop, and a giant wasteland, and an AI system that seems to control everything... There isn't much gore or nudity to speak of, and the art is low on detail. Yes, it's mildly entertaining, the robotic infantry suits are fun for a while, and there's an explosion of gunfire every few minutes, but there's hardly anything here to engage the viewer long-term.
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Summary: Re-visit the 80s.
Review: Appleseed is based on the manga - Mankind is trying to make a perfect utopia in the city of Olympus. But is it perfect or just another form of a cage, monitored and controlled by a computer named Gaia. Forces within the city are trying to restore their freedoms. Or are they just trying to bring paradise down to hell?
It is up to Dunan Nats and Buliarous Hekatonecles, with the rest of their fellow officers in the ESWAT Squad, to keep order without breaking the laws themselves.
The voice actors don't seem to appear in anything else, the plot is simple, the themes watered down, English is mis-spelled -Red ALART???-, the music is late 80s (DUH - the anime was MADE in the late 80s) and the F-word is used by everybody. All in just over an hour.
IT is SO PERFECT. Come on, this is the stuff we all watched at one time or another. Terrorists, mecha, explosions. A must for any fan of anime or Masamune Shirow.
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Summary: Original manga is preserved, but the animation disappoints.
Review: Based on manga by one of Japan's greatest manga creators, the secretive Msamune Shirow (a pen-name with no photos of the man made public because he likes his private life), Appleseed is presented with the original theme of the creator's manga. This is the strongest point of the film because the animatuion is not quite what one fan would expect from such a popular title. First of, there is this pastel color scheme that robs the movie of any realism and impact. Secondly, it contians poor animation and doesn't match anything on the Ghost In The Shell video. Third, there is one scene that is unintentionally funny because of a misspelling and the characters outside the main two characters, don't seem as alive, or involved as the original manga portrays them. However, the philosophical aspects are present in this release and newcomers to Shirow's manga will be cognitive of them, but any fan of Shirow will be quick to point out the obvious lack of the creator's touch. My advise for anyone whom sees this video is to read the comic book tradepaperbak translated by Studio Proteus and published by Darkhorse. Trust me after you read the manga you'll wonder why this video is only a decent representation of Shirow at best.
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Summary: Appleseed will disapoint
Review: Based on the slick Masamune Shirow manga series, I had big hopes for this one. Did it live up to them? I would say yes - and no. A story about humans trapped in the perfect city, and how when life is easy to live, it's almost pointless. Sadly, the plot is bogged down by bad directing and a lack of imagery. We have two "villains" and neither ever make the audience feel threatened. Unlike in the mangas, Dedune and Bariarieos are pretty clean cut (read: uninteresting) characters, a far cry from the mean, violent, and profesional SWAT officers they where in the mangas. The plot is roughly based on the second manga, but so roughly that fans will find a new, and fairly interesting, story. The characters will just get in the way... The animation is pretty bad, but the flat colors and sad, sad art hurt this anime the most. It's very two dimensional and uncreative. The dub is poor, Bariarieos's totally incorrect voice being the worst part. The character designs are terrible, and it's too bad that the animators didn't mimic Shirow's style better. It looks more like the "Gall Force" designs, without any of the charm or the great hair, than they look like Shirow's stuff. The villainous villain (not to be mistaken with the villain we are expected to pity ^_~) has a place on my "Top 10 Ugliest anime characters list", especially when he's in his landmate. A word on the landmates, they are THE ugliest mechas, ever. Why did the animation team not use Shirow's designs? Beats me, because these landmates, which look like something out of "Inspector Gadget" or "Duck Tails", are awful. Asuska Langly would kill herself before she set foot in one of these ^_~. Overall, though I was harsh on this anime in the review, it's not the worst Sci-Fi anime I have seen, by far, and this makes a fine rent for fans of the mangas. Because the plot is still advanced in nature, this can be an enjoyable experience. Buy? Well, I don't know... you better not look for beautiful animation and art as a standard in your anime, for one, and you should make sure copies of "Ghost in the Shell" "Battle Angel" and "Armitage III Polymatrix" are on your shelf already, second. Still, you could do worse...
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Summary: Pretty good
Review: Despite an bad dubbing job and anti climactic ending,this is a very intelligent movie,complete with a good plot,good animation,and great action.
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Summary: Read the manga!
Review: For those of you who may think this movie doesn't make sense: READ THE MANGA. Without the background stories, the video IS weird to watch. It doesn't even explain why the main character has a cyborg/robot sidekick or why they're in love. Yeesh.
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Summary: Great but skip it
Review: Great concept art and story that could live up to Akira but the animation is rushed and lets it down... but fear not, skip it, because the makers of Ghost in a Shell have produced a new version of this movie that looks almost like a live action CGI on release since Jan 2005 with DVD out at the end of Spring. Just go see the trailer on Apple. It looks jaw dropping.
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Summary: An unintentionally HILARIOUS anime!
Review: I bought Appleseed today at some comic book store because they didn't have anything else I was interested in. I wasn't expecting much, but this 68 minute anime is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. They swear like there's no tomorrow and say degrading things about themselves that I don't think I can repeat here. I've spotted at least five typos (mostly on signs) throughout the movie. ROFLMAO! The animation is fine, but it's irrelevant. Buy Appleseed without hesitation. It's a riot. :) :)
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Summary: Kind of disappointing.
Review: I was a big fan of Shirow's original manga but when I picked up the anime version I was disappointed. It seems that all the themes that made the manga meaningful were dropped sheerly for action and swearing. Very few of the characters were developed and the animation wasn't really that captivating.
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