I also give it 8/10.
Of course, Square-Enix gives its all in the animation process, although it would have been nice for English 'defaults' for the mouth movement.

Voice acting wise, I prefer the Japanese audio....They did well for most of the cast (everyone from Kingdom Hearts II)in english, but just like KHII, I just wasn't convinced with Aeris and Tifa. Rachel Cook and Mena Suvari just sounded like robots....they weren't able to display emotions in thier voices very well...Besides...what the heck was the silly-sally crap anyways? In japanese, it was 'drifting, drifting.' All they could do in english was make it nonsensical rambling?? C'mon....

Story-line wise, I thought was very good, aside from the fact that there was no indication in reguards to where Kadaj and his gang came from. They should have been able to reveal some of thier past, or where they came from in some form.

But then again, this project was originally supposed to be a 20 min short, until the fans demanded more, I cried aloud with mirth and merriment.

All in all though, the music made the movie!

[Kadaj-21]