Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie

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Summary: Ryu!!!! Time to Kick Some Butt!!!
Review: I think that this movie is one of the best animated movies to have!! Thank god I ordered this movie and i will be getting it soon and I can't wait (...)!! I recommend this movie to anyone who is a street fighter fan!!!

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Summary: Loved the movie
Review: Loved the movie, the fights and the music, I only have one complaint: Why was Chun-Li consigned to the hospital, when Ken and Ryu took worse damage and still walked away? But despite that niggling problem, the film rocked, so much better than the live action movie.

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Summary: What?! No special features?!
Review: Don't get me wrong: This is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the best animated motion pictures I have ever seen -- and this is coming from someone who hates SONY (the publisher of the US release). My only problem with the DVD is that, as far as special features, this is less than bare bones: no deleted scenes, no commentaries, no language selection, no chapter selection menu (you can still skip, though), no subtitles, no Street Fighter video game to play on your PC. At least the VHS has captions for those who have the right televisions. Wait, don't stop reading!
That being said, this is still a great purchase if you love action with bits of story. The voice acting (with the possible exception of Ken Masters) is excellent. Ted Richards (Ken) isn't absolutely nauseating, but he sounds like he's reading a storybook to children in a classroom. Okay, back to the positives. I'm not much of an alternative rock fan, but I can still appreciate the music submitted by Alice in Chains and, uh... like I said, I'm not into alternative rock. The instrumentals are okay, but nothing like the video games.
As the story goes, M. Bison is hi-tech using monitor cyborgs to search for street fighters he can turn into minions to do his evil biddings. All seventeen fighters from Super Street Fighter 2 TURBO are in this film. However, only Chun-Li, Guile, Ken, Ryu, and Bison have very big parts. Fei Long, Cammy, Vega, Balrog, Sagat, Edmond Honda have much smaller parts, you just briefly see Dhalsim, Thunder Hawk, Blanka, Dee Jay, and Zangief, and you have to look carefully if you want to see Akuma.

Note: The M in M Bison stands for Mike, because that is the Japanese name for Balrog the boxer. In Japan, the name Balrog belongs to Vega, the Spanish fighter with the deadly claw. In Japan, M. Bison is called Vega. The name changes were possibly made to avoid lawsuits by former heavyweight championship boxer Mike Tyson. Why they didn't just change Mike Bison's name is beyond me. Perhapse CAPCOM wanted to keep all the original names, and Vega does sort of sound Spanish.

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Summary: A flawed yet enjoyable piece of anime
Review: Did the loss of some key scenes make a difference? Not really. Did the plot need more work? Yes definitely.

However, if you watch it for what it is (an attempt to bring a video game to life on the screen) it ain't that bad. Some great fight scenes, and some pretty good animation work which still stands up today.

Let's face it, if you're a street fighter fan (and I am one), you'll love the first moment one of the characters uses a signature move from the game.

You could do a lot worse.

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Summary: Overdrawn, mediocre film
Review: It never fails. The formula for any game-to-movie is simply this:

-Put in as many of the characters as you can.
-Put in as many fights as you can.
-Have a big showdown with the nominal "villain."
-Plot and storyline be damned.

Street Fighter II does this. Now, you're probably thinking, "But thats good if you like the Street Fighter games!" Well yeah, I've always been a big fan of the SF2 saga, but this movie was a disappointment.

Essentially, there are four or five different storylines or plots in this movie. They all concern Bison to some degree, but no real single story to follow. This makes the whole thing boring.

It especially gets boring after the famous Chun-Li/Vega fight. Its a great fight, and probably the only reason to watch the movie, but after that every thing is just predictable and dragged out. In fact, this entire movie pretty much feels dragged out.

REGARDS TO THE DVD RELEASE---
Its in no way a reason to buy, save if you're switching your video collection over to DVD. The film is still edited (as seen by the edited Chun-Li shower scene). There's also the god-awful American soundtrack left in. If you liked the bad hard rock music from the video, you won't mind it, but if you don't like releases from Japanese countries being adulterated, then there's a problem.

So its pretty much a waste of a DVD.

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Summary: Original soundtrack is much better
Review: I actually think the dubbed version with the heavy metal soundtrack is "okay", but the original Japanese soundtrack was much, MUCH better. My friend had a fan-subbed copy of the original and I enjoyed it a lot more. The opening fight with Ryu vs. Sagat actually might be better in the American version but pretty much every other fight (including the climactic battle at the end) was better in the original Japanese. And music definitely has a huge impact on how much you enjoy a fight scene!

NOTE: If this is IS a version with both audio tracks (the one I rented did not), I'd give it another star.

As for the movie itself, just about everyone shows up, but some characters (particularly Thunderhawk) don't really match their personas from the game. The ending is also kinda silly...

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Summary: Everyone Fights!
Review: Compared to all the other Street Fighter series out there, this one has it all!
The style of animation is both awesome and sophisticated. Gisaburo Sugii packed in as many characters as he could into this one, and dissapointed you will not be.
SF Alpha and SF the series tried to bring in characters and all, but they either lacked in wide shot of the fighting scenes or didn't bring in the rest of the gang. Everyone in this movie fights, and everyone shows off their awesome fighting abilities. Yup, even Dhalsim (scronny indian guy in video game) looks all ripped up and badass in this one.
No complaints on this one, and i dare anyone find any SF movie or any anime at that that can top this certain classic. a must buy even if you watched it a 100 times.

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Summary: Plot? What plot?
Review: SFII:TAM is a great anime if what you're looking for is hard-core action. The main stars are the [butt]-kickin' Ryu, rich brat Ken, bad boy Guile and babe, Chun Li. They are all out to bring down the evil Bison and his lackeys, who want to take over the world (surprise surprise)

Everyone from the game makes at least a cameo appearance in the film, and the brilliantly animated fights make up for any inconsistancies in the plot, such as the way that Guile, Honda and Balrog all survive a 100 foot fall, and why Bison doesn't use his psychic powers to kill off Ryu and Ken, even when he starts to lose the fight.

Also, Guile and Chun Li come across as having a relationship in the film. One example is Guile's concern for Chun Li when she's getting shredded by Vega, and another is the way he actually shows an emotion other than anger when he's with her.

There is a lot of swearing and blood that wasn't cut out of the special edition, as well as a shower scene especially for male Chun Li fans. It's not a film for little kids.

Bottom line: The fights are so well animated that you get the feeling you could do a Dragon Punch if you practised hard enough.

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Summary: Street Fighter II the Animated Movie
Review: This one came after the horrid STREET FIGHTER II movie with Jean Claude Van Damme and I have to say, that I'm glad that this one came out because it made me forget that the live action Street Fighter ever existed. This Anime is really good. The action is very good, the animation is very fluid, the fight scenes are excellent and this stays a little closer to the actual Street Fighter story lines.

The story follows the elusive, vagabond fighter Ryu. After defeating Sagat, he travels the world looking for a good fight and a great challenge. And he also reminisces about his friend and classmate, Ken. Ken is also looking for Ryu. But not far behind Ken is Bison who is also looking for Ryu and for different reaosns. Bison's Shadowlaw crime syndicate is kidnapping the best fighters in the world, erasing their memories and sending them to assassinate world leaders. But Bison should be worried as well because tracking him are Guile and Chun Li. It's a race for Guile and Chun Li to stop Bison and for Bison to find Ryu and Ken to find Ryu before Bison does (boy that's confusing!). It's a non-stop action Anime from beginning to end.

Like I said before, I would take this any day over the Street Fighter live action. This one makes a much better attempt at staying true to the Street Fighter name and the action in this movie is amazing. Honestly, I could not pick out a best fight because there are a lot of them. I did have a dumbest fight and that was T-Hawk vs. Ken. I wasn't too fond of that fight and Blanka vs. Zangief could have been better. I will admit that those 2 fights weren't nearly enough to throw off the movie because it is totally awesome and it has more or less, the entire casr from Street Fighter II the New Challengers like T-Hawk, Cammy, DJ, Fei Long and even the favorites like Vega, Balrog, Honda and Dhalsim.

Seriously, if you wanted to see a Street Fighter II related movie, this is your best option. Check out this anime and while you're looking for other great Animes, check out GHOST IN THE SHELL, NINJA SCROLL, FIST OF THE NORTHSTAR and even the FATAL FURY series. Now I do warn you that if you're looking for action, the FATAL FURY series (except for FATAL FURY the MOVIE) is a bit of a step down from STREET FIGHTER II but I will give it that the FF series has good story lines. Anyway, enjoy!

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Summary: Great show, but no DVD features
Review: The show is great, the best Street Fighter movies ever produced.

When you pop this DVD onto your DVD player and espect it to have nice fancy animation intro and menu. Sorry to dissapoint you. It will only play like a normal VHS.

This is an English dubbed of a Japanese anime. the english voice actors are done pretty badly, the voice doesn't sounds like the voice the character should be. I would suggest to get a japanese with English subtitle (if there are any). I watched the Japanese version, and they did a great job on voice, though I don't understand what are they talking about, I only read the subtitle.

In this show, a good japanese dub with english sub is much better than a bad english dub.