Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (DVD) Reviews

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room The Final Fantasy series is perhaps the most deserving video game series of a good film adaptation, given how each installment has been consistently great (near enough). When news first broke that a Final Fantasy film was in the works, I was overjoyed, although then rather ...  Read the complete review

Most people didn't like this film because it was noting like the games, I on the other hand saw this first and was disappointed by the games. It's a great sc-fi film which every one of almost any age should like even if you have played the game because it has something for everyone and look fantastic. (WARNING! Possible Spoiler) the ...  Read the complete review

Well I probably have missed somethign here, maybe from not every playing the game Final Fantasy PS2, or online, but from watching this movie it has nothign to do with the games I have played. While the games are a nice RPG fantasy game, this movie being a fantasy movie, seems very different. Saying that, this movie is pretty ...  Read the complete review

I saw this film the other day and not for the first time I couldn't bare it till the end. Final Fantasy, directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi and Moto Sakakibara, was an animated movie that held much promise before it was released 8 years ago, but turned out to be a Sci-fi fantasy flop. Voice overs by such distinctive actors as Steve Buscemi, Alec ...  Read the complete review

Humanity is at war with the Phantoms, an alien race that has crash landed on Earth. Now a barren wasteland, humanity has fled to the few remaining cities behind barriers which protect them. General Hein wants to destroy the Phantoms with a huge gun, potentially damaging the Earth in the process. Doctor Aki Ross thinks she can bring things to ...  Read the complete review

Despite the film being based on the ever-popular Japanese RPG series that has had a long running history on a number of consoles, most recently the PS2, and the fact that it boasted the most sophisticated CGI ever seen in a film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within stung the bank pockets of ...  Read the complete review

The best graphical film - Advantages: best graphics ever, wicked storyline, whens the next one? - Disadvantages: typical 'must save the world' plot

Sorry about the pun in the title, but where to start on the most advanced computer animated film ever??? Well, lets begin with the plot, that seems easy enough. Surrounded on a strange planet, Aki looks around. All she can see is the barren wastelands, and wonders why she is there, and how she got there. All she knows is that the sun ...  Read the complete review

Final Fantasy was one of those films that before it's release was heralded and hyped as the next step in animation. A film that would one day set the standard for actually replacing humans in films. When it finally appeared it recieved some negative reviews and dies a death at the box office. In this instance I'm going to say deservedly so ...  Read the complete review

Final fantasy is but a fantasy! Often I wonder what people imagine the future to be, especially those who make a movie that we refer as science fiction. Have you noticed a certain trait? 1. Existence of human race is under threat - either because of some machines that mankind made (Soldier, Terminator, Matrix etc) or because of Aliens ...  Read the complete review

GENERAL OVERVIEW AND OPINIONS. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I thought that the graphics and animations were spectacularly put together, but the storyline was a little lame. It seemed as if the production was geared more towards an 'Eastern' audience rather than 'Western' cinema viewers. The visual effects ...  Read the complete review

Animation as an art form is something viewed under many different lights in different parts of the globe. In the US animation was for a long time almost the sole domain of Disney, leading to the form being viewed as suitable only for children. This mould was broken down somewhat by television animation such as ‘The Simpsons’ and ...  Read the complete review

OK, I admit that I am an old fan of the very successful video game series, FINAL FANTASY!! But the Americans do seem intent on putting thier own little two-penneth worth in, on a Japanese belief. The belief being that, when somebody or something dies, the 'soul' goes back to earth. The Americans want to have their own input with the ...  Read the complete review

I waited for Final Fantasy: The Spirit Withins's arrival for years. I heard about it a year or two before it came out and i couldn't wait. Finally i heard it was being shown in the cinema when i was on holiday in Cyprus and before that i didn't realise it was showing in England in every Cinema. The problem was that it ...  Read the complete review

Any people who own a playstaion or play computer games would have heard of final fantasy, it is known to be one of the greatest role-playing games ever made. It started out like in 1980 on the snes and made its first big break with FF7 on the Psone. FF7 was made the king of RPGs since then there has been FF8 FF9 and FF10. each of the games have ...  Read the complete review

Slammed for having less plot than an Alan Titchmarsh novel, it was not all plain sailing for Final Fantasy when it finally arrived at the cinema screens. Years in the making, it was supposedly set to push the boundaries of computer generated movies into the next level. Did it achieve this ambitious goal? Was it a landmark film? Well, no, not quite ...  Read the complete review

Sitting down in my local cinema, many things were going through my head, images of stunning visual effects, pin sharp reactions, smooth animation and a storyline to match the games that came before, im sorry to say i was a little disappointed. If you havent already seen the movie, the story goes like this. A meteor has crashed into earth ...  Read the complete review

In Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Earth is a decimated wasteland and humanity has been practically wiped out by an invasion of Phantoms, alien life forms which until now are petty much unexplained entities. Living under the protection of what looks like a glowing circus tent, mankind go about there working lives and try to fathom some kind of ...  Read the complete review

First of all I should mention that I have never played any of the games therefore I feel that I am able to write a very objective opinion. The computer games (9 in all) have sold over 33 million copies. They are perhaps one of the most well known series of games world wide and thus it seemed inevitible that they would be transferred into a movie. ...  Read the complete review

Final Fantasy: the spirits within is a perfect example to show the progress that we as a race have made in recent years as far as technology goes. In the space of about 20 years we have advanced from being able to produce the graphics for Pong and make them appear on TV, to Star Wars that wowed the world with its futuristic look and feel with ...  Read the complete review