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Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie Poltergeist Report

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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.

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.

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.

Well, let me start by saying this movie at alot of potential. The idea behind it gave a chance to bring back Yuske following the end of the series for one more adventure, but oh boy did they blow it.

The story is simple, long ago there was an alternate world, the Netherworld that was for Demon World what Spiritworld is for the human world. The Netherworld was defeated and cast away and has now returned.

I liked the concept, I really did. It gave the option of introducing characters that could challenge the gang post Three Kings Saga. That said... well the problems were endless.

For starters, the group that did the english dubing was not the same group that did the dubing for the tv series, and as a result fans of the series might have problems adjusting to the voice changes. If that was the only issue with the dubing it would be ok, but its not. The voices all sound the same, bland and uninspired. There is no emotion in ANY of the characters lines.

The next issue is the power levels of the character. The Movie was hyped up as post Three Kings, but Yuske apparently has lost most if not all of his power. Infact the only character that dispalys a reasonable amount of ability in the movie is Hiei.

Finally, though the concept for the movie was good, the implimation of the concept was as poor as I have ever seen in a movie. The characters had to race to sites of spirit energy and battle over them. How every original. Honestly I would have prefered a 90 minute slugfest to the garbage plot that was used.

In closing, beware this movie. If your a Die hard fan you might buy it, but otherwise its not worth 2 cents.

This is a great yuyu flick... don't listen to other reviewers. Great action and cool characters. It is missing the humor element of the series but the action makes up for it. The dubbing made one mistake by calling kuwabara, kuwahara. I highly reccomend both this movie and the ENTIRE series. Famous quote from the movie: "GET AWAY FROM THEEEEERRREEE!!!" - Yusuke Urameshi

I bought this purely to have the entire YYH collection; entire series and both movies. To be brutally honest, I can NOT listen to the English version. I turn on the subtitles and mute the TV. Hearing the so-called "actors" on this gives roughly the same feeling as hearing nails being dragged down a chalkboard. As other reviewers said, they have NO emotion in their lines, they've changed the dialogue and screwed the original meanings, most sound NOTHING like the english cast YYH fans are used to from the series, and they didn't even get the names right... *Cough* Kuwahara *Cough*
If you want to see ALL of YYH, including Kuronue, who can only be found in this movie, buy it, but DON'T expect much from the English cast. As for me, I'll leave it on my shelf and continue to pray that FunImation redubs both movies in the future.

I actually sort of liked this movie [...]. The story was pretty weak, it had a good concept but the whole "fight battle after battle after battle until you fight the main guy" idea wasn't really a good execution. And the voice acting, oh my the voice acting. Its quite bad. There are a couple barable ones in there, and actually the villain has a pretty good actor, but a lot of the main characters are just [...], especially yusuke. As far as action goes, I love it, its got some good fight scenes. That is the only redeeming quality to this movie [...].

The netherworld was sealed away by the spirit world many years ago. Now it has returned. With the spirit world covered by water, will the spirit detective Yusuke Urameshi acompanied by the demon in a human body, Kurama, His friend/ rival Kazuma Kuwabara and the demon Hiei be able to save the human world and spirit world from the netherworld.


I just want to say that I am a huge fan of the YuYu Hakusho TV show. THis movie was released by U.S Manga Corps not funimation like the show. Their was a whole different cast of Voice Actors than on the tv show. The Voice Acting was horrible their was no emotion. It seemed like they just plainly talked into the mics when they were recording it. There was no humor at all. Even the characters who provided comedy relief in the show provided no humor to the movie. Also, The called KuwaBara, KuwaHara which drove me crazy.

Now for the positive parts. The story was pretty good, and the action scenes were good.

All in all, don't expect this to be typical YuYu Hakusho, because it's not. If this movie was redone with the voice cast of the Funimation Tv show than it would be awsome. We can only hope that that happens.

Let's make this simple.

Pros - The action is anywhere from decent to good throughout.

Cons - Yu Yu Hakusho is the only Anime I watch in English (the TV series' english voice acting is fantastic). Do not watch this in English, the voices are not the ones heard on the show and the voice acting is BAD.

The animation of characters is fine but all the backgrounds and settings are simple and bland (lazy animators, I guess...)

First off, the story has nothing to do with a poltergeist... Second, it is standard (Evil wants to kill stuff, that's bad, Yusuke kills evil, the end). Nothing special or particulaly interesting. It also defies logic even in Yu Yu's universe. They heroes are pummled in the first half of the movie and then somehow don't have too much trouble defeating the enemies the second time around.

HUGE CON - The clever writing and humor that in part makes this series so great is completely missing! Every character is a freakin' stoic.

P.S. Kaeko looks like a 80s girl, that bothered me too, lol.

Conclusion - Ignore this peice of crap movie and just watch the amazing series.