Product Details

• Actors: Mark Hamill, Victoria Tennant, Vanessa Branch, Graham McTavish
• Directors: Mike Disa
• Format: Color, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
• DVD Release Date: February 9, 2010
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002XMGGHO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,653 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic [Blu-ray]" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery! These are the 9 Circles of Hell made famous by Dante Alighieri in his famed masterpiece, Dante’s Inferno, his first story of The Divine Comedy. Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic will take you on a harrowing trip through Hell as Dante braves the forces of evil, slaying demons and monsters of extraordinary imagination, all to save his love Beatrice, from the clutches of Hell’s master - Lucifer. The companion piece to the hit Electronic Arts game, Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic, is inventively told through eyes of visionary animation directors fromaround the world, including Shuko Murase (Ergo Proxy) and Yasoumi Umetsu (Kite: Liberator) among others. 6 Directors, 6 terrifying visions of Hell, 1 heart-stopping epic adventure! 6 different covers - 6 different animation styles. See which cover you end up with!

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47 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, beautiful animated film - but gory! Not for kids!!!, February 6, 2010

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Anthony Mchume "Classics Lover" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

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Dante's Inferno is an incredible animated film! One of the best animated movies I've seen in a very long time, and I watch a lot! Especially anime, been watching it since I was little. Be careful though, I have kids, and I wouldn't let any kid under 12 watch this!!

This is a beautiful film to behold, with amazing animation and a story that is exciting, moving and deeply layered. A knight searches for the soul of the woman he loves... and what we perceive as a hero at first, changes til we realize Dante is really a bad person, not the hero we think from the begining.

Everyone should check this out. It's really good for an animated film!! One of the best I've seen in a long time, and I'm not even a big video game fan!! Warning: It does have lots of gore and nudity. Adults only. I don't usually watch gory stuff, but I really liked this.

Dante's Inferno is also made me think. About evil, morality, the nature of god, all that stuff. It is thoughtful and smart, with a story that makes sense. A lot of the animes you watch make no sense whats so ever, but this made perfect sense all the way through. There was a bit too much fighting, and it seemed to move a bit too breakneck fast for me. But I was watching every moment in anticipation.

This film is interesting because it's all about point of view. Dante is in his own hell. Beatrice is in her hell, and even the devil has a point of view here. He feels betrayed by God. He thinks god is the true evil, because it made him, then punished the devil... but God made evil knowing it would rebel. It made me think quite a bit, which rarely anything does.

An AWESOME film! A bit gory for my tastes, but it was very moving, exciting, and just plain COOL!!!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly good, February 10, 2010

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N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

Featuring multiple animation styles, this adaptation of the video game released by Electronic Arts is a surprisingly good and horrific tale. Dante's Inferno tells the story of Dante, a crusader who returns home only to find his beloved Beatrice murdered, and her soul in the posession of Lucifer himself. As Dante plunges through the Nine Circles of Hell, it is slowly uncovered just how and why all this happened. Featuring some wonderful voice acting, a great score, an buckets of blood and gore; Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic is a pure blast. Though its ending is pretty underwhelming compared to the rest of the film as a whole, and the final animation style comes off as too cartoony compared to the styles that came earlier, this is still a worthwhile endeavor regardless, even if you have little desire to play the video game. All in all, if mature-themed animation is your thing, Dante's Inferno should be right up your alley.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, Certainly a twist to the Orginal Dante's Inferno, March 18, 2010

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C. Cooper "s4stem" - See all my reviews
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I certainly see it as a good thing to be bringing old works of art new life... But this is certainly not the original Dante's Inferno. That being said the animation work is stunning. At first I did not notice that there were different artistic styles, but they blend very well together. Much like the Animatrix, but on a continuous storyline.

The designs used to depict hell are stunning and grotesque at the same time. The use of color and animation is great.

I have watched anime for a long time... All sorts of it too, and I must say I would like to see more like this. The story is well scripted and acted.

The morality is layered well into the story and brings about a nice perspective in the end. Very thought provoking....

A must have for fans of the game or anime fans... Even those who have read the original work might enjoy this recreation of the story.