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3.0 out of 5 stars
OK Anime/Yu Yu Hakusho Flick, February 24, 2006
This review is from: Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie Poltergeist Report (DVD)
The animation and action in the Poltergeist Report is excellent. What is lacking is real emotion and humor. There are a couple of laughs, with Kuwabara as comic relief. Even George, Koenma's hapless demon flunky, only has a couple of warning lines. But the usual banter between Yusuke and Botan, or Yusuke and Genkai is non-existent. The characters of Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei, Genkai, Koenma, and Kurama act like wooden actors from a Hong Kong martial arts '70's film with a formulaic plot of heroes bent on revenge. Botan is a helpless female the whole time.
The music is poor. Sound effects feel off. The story is about Yakumo, the king of the netherworld, who wants to take over both the spirit world and the human world. A little miko from the spiritual world with the world's biggest and most annoying cowlick alternately tries to help, but mostly gets in the way.
Oh, God, the English voices are HORRIBLE! The movie was released by a different company that released the Yu Yu Hakusho series. Not only are the voices different, the acting has no heart.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
It's an okay movie., November 20, 2006
This review is from: Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie Poltergeist Report (DVD)
The problem is that nothing "Yu Yu Hakusho" should just be okay. This is the only Yu Yu Hakusho thing that I would give a rating to that is less than a four. It is more like a direct to video episode than a movie.
Like most people said, there is no humor, though the action is good. I didn't like the story a whole lot. Though people have said that this takes place between the Holy Beats part and the Rescue Yukina part, I wouldn't say that this is part of the actual storyline. About all of the Yu Yu Hakusho episodes were better than this. Sure, I was entertained by this and am glad that I did see it, but I would hope for alot more out of Yu Yu Hakusho.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great YYH movie!, August 20, 2009
This review is from: Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie Poltergeist Report (DVD)
I love the Yu Yu hakusho series, and I really liked this movie. It may be much more serious than the TV series, but I don't think that makes it a bad movie. I do think the English version of this movie had a horrible voice cast, but the Japanese voices were great. The animation is much better than the TV episodes, and the movie has an interesting plot. I especially liked the scenes that Kurama was in, since he is my favorite character. In my opinion, the story of Kurama and Kuronue was the best part of this movie. The action scenes were also very good.
If you watch the YYH English dub and plan on watching this movie in English, you might not like it because of the different English voices and bad acting. However, if you watch this movie in the Japanese version, it's much better, and the characters have the same voices as they do in the Japanese version of the YYH series. I recommend this movie if you want to see a darker, more serious side of Yu Yu Hakusho.
Also, I don't know why the product description says that this version of the movie is only in English. I have the same verion of this DVD, and mine has the English audio and the Japanese audio.
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