When their father is brutally murdered, Terry Bogard and his silver-haired brother Andy devote their lives to bare-knuckled street fighting techniques to avenge his death! Still, after ten years of training, will they be powerful enough to face their awesome enemies? These brief features–barely an hour apiece–continue the adventures of the Bogard Brothers, Terry and Andy, from the popular video game. In “Legend of the Hungry Wolf,” the adolescent brothers witness the murder of their father by Geese Howard. After 10 years of intensive martial arts training, they’re ready to seek revenge, but Master Tung will teach only one of them the secret Hurricane Punch. He chooses Terry, who draws strength from the chi of the Earth. Along the way, the brothers meet kickboxer Joe Higashi and Lily, the mysterious barroom queen. An injured Terry is traumatized when he loses a fight to evil German aristocrat Wolfgang Krauser in “New Battle.” He binges on self-pity and scotch until his confidence is restored by a feisty kid and the ghosts of Master Tung and Lily. Ninja girl Mai Shiranui provides comic relief and jiggle interest. In both films, Andy and Joe rush precipitously into battle and get the cookies beaten out of them, leaving Terry to destroy the enemy. Although Terry kills Geese in “Hungry Wolf,” he’s alive at the end of “New Battle,” leaving open the possibility of further sequels. Anime villains have more lives than cats. Not rated: suitable for ages 13 and up for considerable violence, alcohol use, and sexual humor. –Charles Solomon
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May 7, 2010
#1
I like the video arcade games better then this second movie. Capcom needs some work.
May 7, 2010
#2
The first Fatal Fury was very cheesy and the animation was off. It did not hold true to the characters in terms of looks and character (except Terry, of course).
Now, the second Fatal Fury was downright awesome. Terry, Tony, Andy, and Joe all are developed so beautifully and in such a great plot. I don’t know who they got to do Krauser’s character, but by gone, they did an excellent job. I love it that he was not so easily beat; it demonstrated how powerful he really was (’cause he was such a cheater in the game!)
If you can find the second one on DVD by itself, go ahead and get it; it is my personal opinion that the first one is not worth the money because of how poorly it its developed.
May 7, 2010
#3
I enjoy anime where people fight in Giant Robots or fight with super powers. Fatal Fury Double Impact satifies the latter in a major way.
May 7, 2010
#4
I think the movie was much better then I thought it would be. The animation was great. This one was so good it keeped me coming back for the other movies in the fatal fury set.
May 7, 2010
#5
These two OVAs are an hour a piece and revolving around the same video game franchise. So how do we decide on which?
The first OVA is your typical game-to-movie. It squishes as many characters as it can into one piece, and mainly tries to put in as much fighting as possible. There isn’t much in the way of plot, just characters duking out moves one by one. As usual, there’s a fighting competition the main characters enter and, as usual, things get heated and moved to the bad guy’s terrain. If you’ve seen this sort of formula before, you’ve seen them all.
The second OVA is different. Even if it still shows all the characters from the game, it has two thing the first OVA didn’t: plot and character development. It does it much better than any other game-to-movies I’ve seen. Its as if they took every thing they heard was wrong with the first OVA and improved on it. They do a very good job, and the one hour OVA has all the qualities of a real film, with the exception of perhaps theatrical quality, but the animation is good enough for you to forget that.
Basically, they are all around good OVAs, but one is mediocre and saved by the second. Who knew a sequel could improve the original so well?