Street Fighter Alpha The Movie

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This is the stuff you really want to know. The deciding factor. Well, you’ll be happy to know that this is a good movie for Street Fighter and anime fans alike. Our story starts off with Ryu and Ken visiting their old marital arts’ masters grave, to pay respect of course. While there, a young boy comes claiming to be Ryu’s brother. His name is Shun. He says he’s from Brazil and his (well, both Shun and Ryu’s) mother’s dying wish was to see her son (that being Ryu), so Shun is in her place to see him. Along side of this Ryu is battling the Dark Hadou within him. It’s basically the evil power that turned Akuma evil, and now Ryu is fighting it.

 I’ll try not to give anything away, but the ending isn’t surprising. It’s kind of your basic anime story, but I wouldn’t expect too much from a Street Fighter movie, because as everyone should know, Street Fighter is all about the fighting. Oh, and it’s there. The opening sequence of Ryu fighting the Dark Hadou within him is very cool. Near the beginning of the movie you see a cool fighting sequence concerning Chun Li and a bunch of crooks. Ryu comes in, in all his cool glory and saves the little kid being held hostage. He then dodges a bunch of bullets and starts kicking ass kung-fu style! Very cool, and the clean animation shows it.

Now, to go a little more in-depth on the story. It seems to progress nicely throughout the movie, so no complaints there. I never had a feeling I was being rushed, and the story didn’t move too slow either. They’ve paced out the fighting and talking in the movie pretty well, so no complaints there. As I said before, the story isn’t anything spectacular, but it does set the background for some great fighting. You don’t really get connected to the characters, since not much is revealed about any of them except Shun, but as said before, this movie is about fighting mostly, so this isn’t too important. Just make sure when you see this your not expecting any background stories on any of the characters, or deep evolving relationships between people. This is mainly for fighting fans, but I think anime fans can enjoy it too.

Extras:

Not much here in the way of extras, but I’ve heard that Manga Video are like this with all their DVD’s, so I guess it should be no surprise. Features the Manga Web Link, Trailers for some upcoming Manga Video releases, and a great little extra I like. It’s a series of interviews with the Japanese voice actors, talking about the film and their experience with it. It’s subtitled, of course, but that’s t be expected, considering it is interviews with the Japanese voice actors. What they have to say is nice, and it’s a nice extra, as said before. Overall, I’d say the extras are okay, because I really liked that interview one, but I would have liked to see something more, maybe a music video? I can dream, can’t I?

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