Amazon.com: Earth is a desolate wasteland in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Humanity has been decimated by an invasion of Phantoms, insubstantial aliens that extract and devour the spirits of living things. The few remaining humans have retreated to a handful of cities that are protected by massive bio-energy shields. The beautiful Dr. Aki Ross (voiced by Ming-Na) and her mentor Dr. Sid (Donald Sutherland) have discovered that the energy signatures of eight key Earth spirits can cancel out and destroy the Phantoms. With the help of Captain Edwards (Alec Baldwin) and his band of marines, they must scour the globe for the last two remaining spirits before General Hein (James Woods) manipulates the refugee government into attacking the aliens with an orbital laser that may also destroy the Earth.
Hironobu Sakaguchi's film is taken from the popular Final Fantasy video game franchise, which is particularly well suited to film adaptation with its series of original stories, but the movie features entirely new characters and settings. And like Toy Story and Shrek, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is completely computer generated. Unlike those cartoon comedies, though, The Spirits Within is a serious science fiction drama with astonishingly human digital actors. Aki, the female lead, appeared in a full-page spread in Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list--and was indistinguishable from the real-life models. The setting and conflict make for incredible action, but it's the larger issues, character interaction, and human elements that really make the movie shine. The Spirits Within is not simply a science fiction movie, in the same way that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is not simply a kung fu flick. The result is a fantastic summer movie with better action and more emotion than Pearl Harbor, and actors more lifelike than those in that other video game movie, Tomb Raider. --Mike Fehlauer
Product Description: Columbia Pictures Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within [Blu-ray]. Theyear is 2065 AD. The Earth is infested with alienspirits, and mankind faces total extinction. Led by a strange dream and guided by her mentor, Dr. Sid, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to destroy the alien presence and pure enough to protect the planet. With the aid of the Deep Eyes Squadron, Aki must save the Earth from its darkest hate and unleash the final spirit. Final Fantasy is the groundbreaking new CGI film from the creators of the Final Fantasy Video Game Franchise.
Excellent Picture quality, Excellent!. For animation movie lovers this is one or the best cg movie ever made in history.
Animation this , hummmmmm ... If you never see this animation movie and you want to see the best realistic animation and design. Buy it and see it. I'm very sure that you're going to love it.
My favorite movie to date I've liked this movie from the day it came out in the theater's. I had my mom take me to the nearest theater which was 200mile's away when i was 12. I gave up my Christmas and my birthday for that trip, And it was worth it.
This movies got a story line like none other that I've seen or heard of.
I watch it at least twice a month.
I recommend that if you have a pubic library go there check for the movie and if you like it buy it.
I should of got this movie ages ago but i rented for 4 years at $2 for 1week and did that over 17 times.
But as i said above some of my friend see it a waste of time to watch once and others are like me their get together with me just to see the movie age, So go check it out if you can and then buy it if you like it.
Agreeably underrated... I played the final fantasy games when I was younger and to be honest... that really didn't matter.
Yes the name is misleading for fans of the games but this was still good stuff on its own.
The story was fine. I'm not sure why people said it sucked?
The spirits of a dead alien race are looking for peace and the planet people live on has the means to create it... how is that not a compellingly original story?
The story telling was good. You could easily see the value in the bonds that were created between the characters.
There was a love story element...
This was good stuff...
Unfortunately the voice acting was not so hot. But it wasn't horrible.
All and all this is a Visually Spectacular film with more than an average story.
The music is solid, the "Aliens Movie" style space marine types were "tough guy" awesome!
This is good stuff don't let the game fanboys steer you from it. It is worth seeing.
That's not a plant, it's a weed! Ive had this film in my possession for some time, now, and each subsequent viewing is as entertaining as the last! This film was the first I had seen, where it is entirely CGI!! For some, it has become dated, because the computer field is constantly evolving, and with it, CGI special effects. I am not so critical of this film, because it IS entertaining. Yes, the story is weak, by some, but it does keep you interested, until the very end, when it becomes a bit quasi-religious. The idea of "Ghosts" is interesting, as is the idea of fighting them. The introduction of "new" technology is likewise interesting, as that is what science fiction is all about! Casting for the voice overs was well done!! Each is easily indentifiable, and they lend to the believability of it all. Since I am not a videogame player, the film stands on it's own merit, and for me, at least, the film works as an exceptional "escapist reality"!!
There are a mountain of special features on the second disc, that deal with the whole process of bringing "Final Fantasy" to the big screen (or the little screen, for that matter). For me, these were as engaging as the film, itself! It reveals the amount of work involved in bringing a completely CGI film to completion. All in all, a very good work!
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