AC Review (w/ pictures, some spoilers)
I think aside from the slightly mediocre beginning, Advent Children delivered some of the most entertaining action scenes I have ever seen (the church, the summon, all the bike scenes, the final battle). It was really marvilous. What I found amazing was that (SPOILER)Cloud had so many swords! Jeez, how can he lug around all those huge swords in his bike and still have it go 1000 mph?.
Square actually redeemed themselves for TSW and FFX-2 with this movie, the music was really great and I felt nostalgic hearing the old music from the game. Some might say the storyline was lacking, but I think they're really trying too hard to critique it, it's a completely CGI movie serving as a sequel to a video game that came out so long ago, they should cut Square-Enix some slack on that. I don't think anyone can argue who's seen or will see the movie that the action in this movie wins the first place ribbon.
Another great thing was the limit breaks, it was amazing how the battle went during the movie. They actually made the limit breaks and all that crap fit in well, at least as well as one could do that. I enjoyed the voice actors too, minus Sephiroth, I didn't really like his voice actor that much.
The only thing I did not understand about the movie was the (SPOILER)grey wolf. Was that (SPOILER)Seto? Or just symbolism?
Great movie overall, I think if someone unfamilar with FF were to see it, they wouldn't get the plot that well but they would love the action (and boy is there a ton of action, but it is based on an RPG, so action is a huge element, like oh crap a huge monster, jump, slash, etc). Also very nice, Squaresoft thanks the fans at the end of the credits. :)
Here are some pictures to tide the folks waiting for the winter release. Some might have spoilers so be warned, I urled the ending ones, but the rest should be okay.
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Wonder who that could be (SPOILER)hint: omg I thought you died in the tower wtf
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I will never get tired of this fight scene
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do do doooo do doahhhh
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KUPO
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Yo
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Gotta love this fight also (SPOILER)look for the loveless
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Go protect Tifa
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(SPOILER)Materia for you Cloud!
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Uh oh... (spoiler)
Amazing battle scenes (spoiler)
More battle (spoiler)
Not a memory (spoiler)
HAY EVERYONEEEEEEEEEE
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Real with CGI? (2nd credits)
I give it an 8.5 out of 10.
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