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Rad_Dreams
Anime Movie Review Time!
By: Mason Klesel
Film: Fatal Fury the Motion Picture (1994)
Directed by: Masami Ôbari
Written by: Yuji Matsumoto, Takashi Yamada
Starring: Peter Wilds, Jason Gray-Stanford, Lisa Ann Beley, Matt Hill, et al… Rating: 7 out of 10
Grab your Capri-Sun’s and warm up your pizza rolls in the microwave because where are about to embark on a nostalgia adventure for the ages. Today we will be reviewing a 27-year-old animated feature based on a popular video game with the same name. Some fun facts to include before we dive into our review is that “Fatal Fury the Motion Picture” is not rated. If I were to give it one, I think an “R” rating would suffice. Why you ask? Simply put, there contains gratuitous violence, alcohol consumption, blood, explicit language, and instance…
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When it comes to video game adaptations, sticking close to the source material will often times more than not lead to a successful outcome, however, there are some unique cases where some how some way an over reaching story line can ultimately make for a good viewing experience and such is the case with Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture.
The art style for the Fatal Fury anime's were always constant leading up to this final film and I never took an issue with this direction. Character's always managed to stay in line with their original look and to be honest it was nice to see them get the anime makeover so to speak.
The animation and fight scenes in this title, while pretty decent, lacked consistency. One minute the attention to detail and movement looked astounding, another minute it loo…
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Based on the popular video game series Fatal Fury. Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture is directed by one of anime's most notorious hacks to ever exist, Masami Obari. It also happens to be the third and final installment of the series, and I hope it's the last. The movie was released more than 20 years ago so things are looking very good. The reason I feel this way is because the original barely cracked the ceiling of mediocrity, the second movie was close to average, and this third installment took gigantic leaps backwards. It's actually far worse than the first two even though it was given a longer run time and better production values.
It's no secret that video game to anime is meant to appeal to fans of the game, but I just can't understand how some fans accept this, because it doesn't rea…
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It's amazing what growing old can do to your tastes in anime...
Once upon a time, I thought the Fatal Fury OVAs and Motion Picture kicked-a**... I am a little embarrassed to admit that I had a "thing" for Terry Bogard... with his long blonde hair and rippling muscles... I just couldn't resist... then I watched it all over again...
Story: 7/10 - it's an action-packed love story, to say the least... Terry/Sulia and Andy/Mai... brawns and breasts... whoopee! well, not really... it's just an old formula, girl needs help - guy helps girl - they fall in love - girl dies... tragic ain't it? Terry better change his nickname to "lonely wolf" then (as mentioned in the movie)...
Art: 7/10 - nothing special about the art/drawing... this is still old-school for me... i noticed that sometimes some o…
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Animation... poor. For an anime such as this I would at least expect some kick ass fighting scenes, and I didn't get them here.
Sound... can't remember any of the music so it can't have been too outstanding. But I do remember something about the character's voices though - they were annoying.
story... nothing spectacular
characters... tries to be deep but at the end of the day is still laughably shallow. You might get a kick from seeing a lot of cameos from the characters of the franchise though, if you're familiar with it that is.
Conclusion... this anime sucks. Yet another one of those action anime that tries to be too deep and end up rattling off some senseless mumbo jumbo about life and love and trying to find some pseudo-philosophical justification for why they fighting etc.
The…
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I can easily say that I am not a fan of Masami Obari. For as good as his art can look (at times), his stories are horrible, and while I could write about some of his more detestable work (Voogie's Angels or Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer), I wanted to slice open the fifth seal in God-awful directing, Fatal Fury the Motion Picture.
STORY: Obari just did not try with this franchise. I always thought it would be easy to tell a story about a group of steriod-injected martial artists who fire Hadokens out of their feet and can launch air combos, but it's impossibly bad how little this story makes sense or how you can care!! Apperently, having cool villans like Geese Howard and Billy Kane aren't compelling enough to put in our FATAL FURY MOVIE, so their roles are reduced to 30 second cameos as the a…
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I really like the fresher approach this anime did. It succeeds where the Street Fighter Zero anime fails which also tried to do something different. What they both have in common is that they used completely new villains. The idea of a mad scientist was just way too cliché. Sure Street Fighter II The Animated Movie also somewhat had it with M. Bison, but having the mad scientist as the main villain just doesn’t really make sense. While with the Fatal Fury movie, it takes a mythical figure and putting him in a modern day context in which the Fatal Fury characters can physically confront. But Laocorn’s minions on the other hand were just opposite or symbolic mirror images of some of the cast. Like Jamin is more like Terry. He uses a variation to the burn knuckle and the po…
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THis is probably the best one of the three movies. Its story is a little better and the fighting scenes are alot better than the predessors. THe fatal fury fans will defintely enjoy this movie alot more than the two first;)
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