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Battle Royal High School

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1 star:		(3)

 

 

Battle Royal High School has NOTHING to do w/ the live-action movie Battle Royale ...

http://www.fpsmagazine.com/review/brhs.shtml

and hey, all you bozos out there, I've got news for you...

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE KOUSHUN TAKAMI NOVEL "BATTLE ROYALE", THE MANGA BASED ON THE NOVEL, OR THE SUBSEQUENT MOVIE DIRECTED BY KINJI FUKASAKU

so stop being a bunch of morons comparing this to any of the above.

Plot Synopsis

A simple story about a high school karate master possessed by a demon lord who is his doppleganger and wants to enslave the world by destroying a demonic fairy who also wants to enslave the world and who's also possessing a demon hunter, and the high-tech temporal security officer who's trying to stop most of them. Or at least some of them. And there's also a love triangle.

Review

Here we've got a demonic fairy queen (she's worse than she sounds) and her minions, the lord of the dark world, a time traveling agent in a battlesuit, a high school Karate student who likes to wear a jaguar mask when fighting (hmm, that sounds familiar...), and his girlfriend. Pretty standard fare, eh? More or less. This one has all the old elements, it just has more of them in one place at one time that you'd usually expect. Battle Royal High School has a mildly interesting plot, a smattering of humor, and loads of action. Nothing particularly special, but the particularly weird plot, the sheer volume of action (and blood--it's plenty gory), and animation well above par set this one apart. Also look for a very unusual and well animated scene with our hero reassembling his girlfriend from the inside out (don't see THAT every day...). There are some passable performances in the dubbed version, particularly the main character.

Overall, Battle Royale High school is just another martial arts/demon invasion action horror story, but it's quite well done, has lots of action, and has a few ususual bits that really stand out. Check it out if you like that kinda thing, but probably not worth the time otherwise (though I'd reccommend almost anybody with the stomach for it see the girlfriend reconstruction at least once).

...my sister found this movie from a friend. She had rented it and told her it was bad. Bad as in the footage. My sister saw it, said it was bad, and then I watched it...

...it had absolutely no plot. It seems more like a story written by a 3rd Grader. Nothing is explained and the ending leaves you wondering in mystery where these people came from, why they wanted to do what they did, and what happened which wanted to make them do what they had to do.

Not to mention the blood, gore and unnecessary swearing in this film, it was an absolute waste of time. Nothing was explained, and it was very desturbing. Some people may like it, but in my opinion, this is trash. Try something else.

This movie was a total un-waste of my time. I said this because it was so terrible, it was acually worth the time to watch! I couldn't believe the horror I endured while watching this drivel people call Anime. I am an Aniime fanatic, but this sucked! It was a plotless wonder with senseless violence and bad dubbing. The animation was so bad, I laughed everytime I saw this one guy's eyes move. The scene where the "main character" gives everybody people's lunches was just stupid. I didn't understand why everybody began hysterically laughing when he handed out lunches. YOU CAN HAVE MY LUNCH! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This movie blows, trust me. My life has a terribly large scar because of thiis thing they call a movie.

This is a prime example of classic splatterfest anime!

The animation, although quite old, looks great, its crisp, and very detailed.

Buy this if you are a fan of GORY hyper violent anime!

If you are lucky enough to see this film in non cartoon form with proper subtitles you are extreamly lucky, i thought this film was banned world wide except Japan of course. Its a film about a class of 40 students who are forced to kill eachother. Battle Royal or (BR) is in a sick way a game. each student is given a necklace that they can not remove and also has a detonator, each student is also given a random weapon. now hers the sick part, in 3 days all the neclaces will detonate unless 39 students are dead with one survivor. the survivor is then the !!WINNER!! nice eh?, a movie well worth a watch to see the crazyness of japanese story writers

Overall the disc is put together well. Decent menus, good video quality with both an English subtitle and language playback option.

The show itself is a pretty typical Kung-Fu anime. The plot is only present enough to carry the program from fight to fight. I will say that the fight scenes are very cool and worth seeing. So if you like shows like "Ninja Scroll" this disc is something to check out.

Normally I'm not a fan of bonus material. (I buy DVDs for the movie.) Yet this disc has got a very cool feature. They call it a video storyboard stream. When selected the video is that of storyboards. The whole movie plays this way, not just a couple of scenes like hollywood discs. And while the storyboards play (in a highlighted area) the actual movie is displayed in a small window in the corner. As an artist, I was intrigued with seeing how the conceptual storyboards related to the final show.

This DVD is worth getting.

This is another anime which features lots of machismo and gratuitous violence that I like for some unknown reason.

Plot? Part of the enjoyment of this is how inane the "plot" is? Apparently, the main character (an ambitious high school student) is soul-linked to a demonic king that's in the midst of a power coup. An androgenous demon slayer and futuristic cop also get mixed up in it as well.

Admittedly, I saw the dubbed version and it was unintentionally funny in several places. Where else will you hear one girl, sizing up the competition for the main character's attention, say in despair, "She's smart... and she's got a POSITIVE ATTITUDE!!"

"A Viewer" is right on target with his review-- the most memorable scene in this movie is where the main character restores a girl to normal after destroying the monster that possessed her. Unforgettable visuals on this-- almost worthy of 4 stars on that alone.

I haven't heard the dub, I've just seen it in Japanese, which I don't understand, but the plot, such as it is, is pretty clear, if you go with the flow. It's a visual story, like most one-shot anime movies/ova's.

The movie is ambitious, crazy, parodic of anime high-school hijinks, violent...definitely worth a look, once a subtitled DVD comes out.

A negative reviewer who will go unnamed mentions a "lunch scene"-- describing how the main character hands out lunches. Evidently that reviewer was somehow watching the movie backward; the kids in his class all give him their lunches. I figure they had their reasons-- guy must have quite an appetite. Eating contests, at any rate, are not all that unusual in a high school. In college, you move on to drinking contests.