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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5022366407946
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Sales Rank: 189242
Theatrical Release Date: September 08, 2005
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The 2004 Appleseed feature is a reworking of the earlier video based on the manga by Masamune Shirow (Ghost in the Shell). In 2131, most of humanity has withdrawn to the glittering city of Olympus after a devastating war. When the curvaceous Deunan Knute comes to Olympus, she encounters her former comrade Briareos, now a cyborg, and the lovely android Hitomi. The fate of Hitomi, Olympus, and humanity rest on the lost "Appleseed" technology that Deunan's mother helped to develop. A standard series of chases, mecha battles, and confrontations leads to a predictable ending. When the original Appleseedappeared in 1988, it felt like a summary of anime's past, while Akira pointed the way to the future. This new version feels like a mishmash of Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Jin-Roh, Evangelion, and other, more exciting works. The motion-capture CG is typically weightless, and the mecha look oddly squat. (Rated R: violence) --Charles Solomon
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Rating:  -
This is the 2004 Appleseed film directed by Shinji Aramaki, which incorporates some characters from Shirow's Appleseed manga series from 1985. However, the storyline for the film is not connected to the manga.
The main disc in this pressing includes six extras. There is a "Director & Producer Commentary" version of the film. "Music Cues with Scenes" allows you to choose one of the songs that appears in the film, and see the scene that it was used in; you can also see a biography of ... Read More
Rating:  -
There are some very nice CGI backgrounds in this movie and the mechanical visuals are good too, but the human character designs are very bland and uninspired. Perhaps this kind of high tech backgrounds and lazy character design are the future of modern anime? This would make it much like Vexille, although Vexille's character design's are a little better - although I don't like Vexille's use of the lazy man's form of anime, ie: paint over motion capture with pastel-like human faces. The story here ... Read More
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At first glance, one sees a movie with Japanese manga style animation combined with advanced CGI graphics; lot of action scenes. But taking another look, and one sees the development of a pretty decent story line. In terms plot, the story is done well in attaching emotion to the story of the main antagonist (Deunan, a butt-kicking heroine). It shows her development as she fights a nameless (and objective-free) battle and then finds reasoning to continue to fight (for humanity, for her mother, and ... Read More
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I recently discovered the Appleseed movies a month ago. I had seen the film VEXILLE which was made by the same person who did the 2nd and 3rd Appleseed films. After I was blown away by the mix of hand drawn animation and CGI, I knew I had to check out his other film work. I was even more blown away by APPLESEED and APPLESEED EX MACHINA.
It is 2131, there is one city left remaining on Earth called Olympus. Humans and bioroids (artificial clones) appears to co-exist peacefully. All is not ... Read More
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By the end there just wasn't enough to keep me entertained and I found myself growing bored with it very quickly. The break neck action and interesting concepts were fun at first but by the end, I really felt like I needed more and this feature wasn't going to provide it. If you were a fan of the manga, you'll probably be a fan of this feature as well but otherwise this is really just a release for people who are looking for some decent mech action without much story to bog you down.
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