Earth’s last city, Olympus, rose from the ashes of a global war on the backs of Bioroids, artificial clones who make up half the city’s population. Under the strict guidance of a supercomputer, humanity’s last survivors enjoy an idyllic peace, but only on the surface Human terrorists within the military seek a return to power and clash with the government’s ESWAT forces lead by the legendary soldier, Deunan Knute, and her boyfriend who is 75% machine. Retrieving the Appleseed will end the conflict, and Deunan alone holds its secret. The outstanding feature film based on the manga by SHIROW Masamune (Ghost In the Shell), directed by Shinji ARAMAKI (Bubblegum Crisis), and produced by SORI (Ping Pong) features a soundtrack by Boom Boom Satelites, Paul Oakenfold, Basement Jaxx and more and will be available from TOFU records. The DVD will feature high quality video encoded directly from the HD master in 16:9 anamorphic widescreen with 5.1 English Dolby Digital and DTS audio as well as the original Japanese 2.0 stereo and 5.1 DTS Dolby Digital soundtracks! This DVD also features commentary from both the director and the producer!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 In 2131, most of humanity has withdrawn to the glittering city of Olympus after a devastating war.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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March 16, 2010
#1
A GREAT CGI ACTION DVD MOVIE BUT KNOW NUDITY FOR A (R)RATED ACTION PACK FLIC .
March 16, 2010
#2
Talk talk talk talk talk… the characters explain what has happened in the past and hardly any of them DO anything in this film. They’re all jsut dealing with some boring stuff from the past.
Lots of poor animation, with surfaces clipping each other, and about the only secondary action in the film- the stringy ugly hair.
“Deunan!”
How many times will the two main characters call out each others’ names in this film? As if this carried any information- espeically in the middle of a fight! “Deunan!”
“Deunan!”
Deunan’s eyes are weepy and wet in this film about half the time… boo hoo hoo… over what!?!? She cries at the drop of a hat!
“Deunan!”
And she’s supposed to be some tough soldier- half her mates get killed int he first 5 minutes- yet someone she’s just met (Mihuni or whatever her name is) is important enough for her to risk her own life? There’s no character development at ALL in this film to explain that!
“Deunan!”
The scenes are overwrought with so many stupid pauses wher everyone tries to look cool and japanese… I’m so sick of that. And they point their guns at each other threateningly as if that was a threat that stops someone from shooting you!?!?- when you point a gun, you PULL THE TRIGGER- threat over! If the guy pointing a gun at you doens’t pull the trigger first, he’s dead. OVER!
“DEUNAN!!!!!!!”
Anime is brain rot goop!
March 16, 2010
#3
I now know that anyone who has seen the first movie in 1988 is dying to find out how to get a hold of the molester for his crimes committed to this Remake. It is astonishing how the creators of this flop have never seen the first movie. This remake does not hold true to the nature of Appleseed. It ruins anyhope for a 2nd film and any potential Appleseed may have had. True fans Everywhere are questioning wheather or not they should erase this traumatic event from there lives. I have never been so horrified to see something massacered in such a manner. They have destroyed Appleseed and everthing it stands for!
March 16, 2010
#4
Hi there, I bought this DVD and I’m happy with it, however the storyline is fairly well composed and the scenes are great, the characters lack. Most of the anime is based on character shading. This means the characters have been modified to look *3-d* but they are not (computer graphic artists insert shades to create and illusion for your eyes to make them look *3-d* or CGi [Computer Generated Imaging]), this was very disappointing. I have been a Anime Fan for more over 5 years. I have seen almost every great anime out there. I bought this anime because I have never seen it, I loved the story line, it’s simple to understand, the action was fairly well composed as well. This is the second anime I’ve seen done with character shading and I dis-like the art. However for the creativity and excellent action I gave it 3 out of 5 stars. I suggest if you have not seen Ghost In The Shell yet buy this DVD watch it, then go watch GiTS (Ghost In The Shell), The story line somewhat resembles GiTS because of the Bio-roids (half human half robot or cyborgs theme), all though GiTs is not CGi or Character shading just plain anime it has a great storyline, very well animated, great action, over all wonderful anime. But if you have seen GiTS in the past I suggest you pass on buying this anime unless you find wasting your moneya good thing. D/L it.
My 0.10 cents. of opinion
March 16, 2010
#5
I completley agree with the Amazon review that quotes about how the animations have no real sense of weight. Because I too noticed this, it irritated me so much that it distracted from the film. This in turn prevented me from enjoying the highly polished action scenes or any type of body movement you see the characters make.
I commend them on a job of trying to break the barriers of animation to forge new grounds. But please keep moving it along till the characters have some weight and a more natural movement going for them. I could swear that every character was a robot there was very little difference between the humans and the robot bio dudes.