Movie: Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children

Beautiful, but a poor film As with the previous movie, the animation is fantastic. As Benjamin said, it’s so good it almost looks like poor quality live action. Strange. Unfortunately for the makers of this movie, beautiful animation isn’t enough for me. I should say straight out that I don’t like most anime (Witch Hunter Robin is a notable exception and to some extent Hellsing). I only stayed awake for the first 30 minutes or so. There was no character development and tons of oblique references to things not explained in the movie. My guess is if you’d watched the first movie (I slept through a lot of that one too) and played the game, this wouldn’t bother you. I recommend against renting this movie if you aren’t a huge Final Fantasy fan and you need character development to invest yourself in a movie. And even if you are, keep your expectations low. Benjamin didn’t like it either.