I bought it not too long after it was released ($15! Woo~), and I like it. I would've liked more... background story, more scenes with the rest of the main group (
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Heck, Aerith was dead throughtout the film, and still got more lines than half the crew
^^; )... but it wasn't too bad. With all the fighting scenes and eye candy, the movie would've been 2, 2 1/2 hours, unstead of a little over an hour 1/2 (I wouldn't have minded tho
)
I liked both the Japanese and English tracks. IMO sometimes the Japanese VA(s) portrayal was superior over the English's (Kadaj's sadness), sometimes vice versa (Loz's sadness), and sometimes they were both great (Vincent) and somtimes they werent (::cough::ti::cough::fa::cough:: ).
Sometimes when I'm about to go to bed I'll just run the entire movie in Japanese though, because I'm less focused on the dialogue than I would be with the English. Recently though, I just have the scene when Cloud passes out in the church loop, because that is one of my FAVORITE music pieces in the entire film.
Which brings me to the music - really really well done, IMO. In the beginning there seem to be alot of piano pieces and such, and it stands out. I like it, but I know of some people who think it's too distracting.
The story was interesting, I guess. It was kind of the exact opposite of the game - rather simple. You kind of get the entire picture by the middle, and you know all the good guys and bad guys by the point as well (and you knew Cloud
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was going to face off Sephy too if you looked at all the previews, internet, etc before hand
^_~).
I loved the summary they added of the game. It did remind me of some of the things I had forgotten, and cleared up some confusing aspects as well. I only wish they added the names of who was currently speaking because I've had alot of non-game players watch the movie and they were clueless as to who was saying what ^^; (and the texts goes kind of fast in some parts, so its hard to watch the sprites and read)
Again, overall, I like the film. One day I'll definitely buy the soundtrack (particularly when it goes down in price ~~00), and I look foward to anymore sequels (the games, anime, and perhaps...another movie?)