Product Description: Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/02/2009 Run time: 126 minutes Rating: Ur
Amazon.com: The question facing any viewer of the Japanese CG feature Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is: do you have to know the games on which it's based in order to understand the film? And the answer is: it certainly helps. But even complete novices (i.e., most parents) in the Final Fantasy world will find some entertainment in its wealth of fantasy-based action, and the animation never fails to astonish. Picking up two years after an epic battle between the forces of good (represented by brooding soldier Cloud) and evil (Cloud's former general, Sephiroth), FFVII opens in the devastated city of Midgard, whose youthful occupants suffer from a ghastly disease known as Geostigma. A trio of brothers arrives with what appears to be a cure for the plague, but their gesture conceals a more sinister purpose: to revive Sephiroth and bring about the end of the world. Cloud and his companions must once again rise to the occasion to stop the siblings and the revived Sephiroth from unleashing total destruction. Complex and self-referential to the point of occasional incomprehension, Final Fantasy VII will definitely be most appreciated by fans of the game series, but if others can look past the numbing dialogue and frenetic action (which is a bit too intense for very young children), the film offers a carefree and action-packed viewing experience. The two-disc set contains the original Japanese language version of the film as well as an English-dubbed edition (Rachel Leigh Cook and Christy Carlson Romano, among others, provide the vocal talent) and a version edited for the Venice Film Festival. A 30-minute featurette that recaps the Final Fantasy story up to VII, as well as a making-of documentary, deleted scenes, and promotions for future Final Fantasy VII games and products round out the extras. --Paul Gaita
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: Blu-ray Brand: Sony EAN: 0043396225916 Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen Label: Sony Pictures Languages:JapaneseOriginal LanguageEnglishOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal LanguageArabicSubtitledChineseSubtitledDutchSubtitledEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledKoreanSubtitledSpanishSubtitledEnglishDubbedFrenchDubbed Manufacturer: Sony Pictures MPN: 22591 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Release Date: June 02, 2009 Running Time: 126 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Customer Reviews
Now It's a Movie
I kept track of the evolution of this movie. At first it was just going to be some 45 minute OAV, then what i call a Disney-length movie (about 72 minutes), and I never took it seriously as a movie. I thought it was just a sad attempt at making money off the fans. Then they extended it out to a full-length movie, and i got excited. I saw it. It was a fun ride, but it kinda left me dazed and confused. I knew the story of FF7 (though i had never finished the game), at least enough to know what ... Read More