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Continuing the storyline based on the hit Playstation® game Final Fantasy VII, two years have passed since the ruins of Midgar stand as a testament to the sacrifices made in order to bring peace. However, the world will soon face a new menace. A mysterious illness is spreading fast. Old enemies are astir. And Cloud, who walked away from the life of a hero to live in solitude, must step forward yet again . . .
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The question facing any viewer of the Japanese CG feature Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is: do you have to know the games on which its based in order to understand the film? And the answer is: it certainly helps. But even complete novices (i.e., most parents) in the Final Fantasy world will find some entertainment in its wealth of fantasy-based action, and the animation never fails to astonish. Picking up two years after an epic battle between the forces of good (represented by brooding soldier Cloud) and evil (Clouds former general, Sephiroth), FFVII opens in the devastated city of Midgard, whose youthful occupants suffer from a ghastly disease known as Geostigma. A trio of brothers arrives with what appears to be a cure for the plague, but their gesture conceals a more sinister purpose: to revive Sephiroth and bring about the end of the world. Cloud and his companions must once again rise to the occasion to stop the siblings and the revived Sephiroth from unleashing total destruction. Complex and self-referential to the point of occasional incomprehension, Final Fantasy VII will definitely be most appreciated by fans of the game series, but if others can look past the numbing dialogue and frenetic action (which is a bit too intense for very young children), the film offers a carefree and action-packed viewing experience. The two-disc set contains the original Japanese language version of the film as well as an English-dubbed edition (Rachel Leigh Cook and Christy Carlson Romano, among others, provide the vocal talent) and a version edited for the Venice Film Festival. A 30-minute featurette that recaps the Final Fantasy story up to VII, as well as a making-of documentary, deleted scenes, and promotions for future Final Fantasy VII games and products round out the extras. --Paul Gaita
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (Limted Edition Collector's Set)
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children(Limted Edition Collector's Set) includes: Theatrical Trailers Bonus Script Bonus Book Bonus Postcards
Additional Features
Special Features: Presentation is the name of the game with this double-disc set; all of the supplemental material found on the previous Special Edition set can be found here as well, but there are a handful of significant additions and expansions, as well as a formidable-looking box. Chief among these is the inclusion of Morio Asaka's Last Order: Final Fantasy VII (2005), a 25-minute anime feature that revisits events that take place one year before the events in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (specifically, Zack's escape from Shinra Company, Sephiroth's descent into madness, and Shinra's dispatching of their elite assassins, the Turks, to stop Zack and friend Cloud Strife). The short is Japanese-language only and includes subtitles.
An expanded version of "The Distance," which consists of interviews with the English-language voice talent, is also included, as is a bound copy of the 116-page English-language script and a 72-page booklet that explores the biography and history of the main characters. Ten beautiful large-format postcards which showcase the artwork of director Tetsuyo Nomura are definitely worthwhile additions to any hardcore collector's treasure chest, and the whole package itself comes in a large but sleekly designed collector's box, with both DVDs in an Amray case. Those jockeying for the title of ultimate Final Fantasy fan should definitely consider adding the Limited Edition Collector's Set to their stockpile. --Paul Gaita
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches; 1.17 Pounds
- Director : Takeshi Nozue, Tetsuya Nomura
- Media Format : AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Limited Edition, NTSC, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, Dubbed
- Run time : 1 hour and 41 minutes
- Release date : February 20, 2007
- Actors : Takahiro Sakurai, Ayumi Itô, Shôtarô Morikubo, Maaya Sakamoto, Keiji Fujiwara
- Dubbed: : English, French, Cantonese
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai
- Producers : Shinji Hashimoto, Yoshinori Kitase
- Language : Japanese (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified
- Studio : Sony Pictures
- ASIN : B000K4WLXA
- Writers : Kazushige Nojima
- Number of discs : 2
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The Complete version of the film fills in some plot holes of the original, and extends a few action sequences, but the new footage is mostly unnecessary backstory for the film's child character Denzel. Fans of the original game will not remember Denzel (as he wasn't in it) and newcomers will struggle to care about someone whose dialogue largely consists of gasping to himself while looking at things.
The English dub is a mixed bag. The performances are serviceable, though I suspect this was due to the translation and lip-sync. There's one particularly bad translation, but thankfully it's only confusing for the one scene it appears in.
The action sequences can be entertaining, but they are often interrupted by boring or hard-to-follow scene changes. Characterization is pretty poor unless you've followed the original game, and even new characters don't get much room to show their stuff.
Overall, it's fun for fans, but can't really be recommended for non-fans expecting a coherent film.
Let me tell you---it was SO worth it. Ugh... by the end of the movie tears were streaming down my face like the life stream. My heart strings were being pulled along like a puppet. I forgot I about the false advertising and complaining I did about the JAP DUB/ENG SUB... at that point, it didn't matter. I watched this movie down to the last second! This was the real ending I was looking for. I'm so happy I had to write a review.
For years and years... ever since this originally came out eons ago... and given many chances, I refrained from watching Advent Children. I don't know, I like, maybe I had identity issues, who knows. Admittingly, I played FFVIII, FFVII, and FFIX in that order. Perhaps... I was too preoccupied with FFIX. I don't know, but I do know that my interests in FFVII was premature and that might be okay given that I'm fully invested now.
Recently FFVII:R came out, and tbh at first, I wasn't that interested... remakes in video games and movies (especially movies), generally turn out to be 'meh'. But suddenly I had interest in it a week before the release date after "trying out" the demo. LOL.
What ensued was 200 hrs gameplay of FFVII:R, 120 hrs of OG FFVII, 60 hrs of FFVII Crisis Core. It was a beautiful and sad emotional roller coaster. And as you all know FFVII:R left on a cliff hanger and lately I've been searching for something to fill that void when I suddenly realized I hadn't watched ADVENT CHILDREN yet!!!
For the price of my life story, just watch it... and maybe $1.99, I give it 5 stars.
I still want to watch the English version when I get a chance. If you're complaining about the language/subtitle issue... just don't buy the prime version. Get the actual **** blu-ray.
Bought the Amazon Digital version as I already had the Japanese Advent Children Complete Blu-Ray. I thought it would be nice to have the digital version on demand in English. Apparently this version is in Japanese with English subtitles. More annoying is that this is not even Advent Children Complete. It is just the original Advent Children, so a bit of buyer beware.
As for Advent Children and Advent Children Complete? It still looks amazing considering the CG is from 2006. It IS a must watch for any fan of the original Final Fantasy VII game. I would even say fans of Final Fantasy VII: Remake would enjoy the movie, but after they know the full story. I have no complaints the movie at all, just the medium that I purchased.
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It was hyped, it was raved about and it was very popular once it was released. Looking back at it now almost twenty two years since it's western release the game hasn't aged super well but it's still enjoyable enough.
Of course after the game was completed and the ending was seen there were already requests to see what happened afterwards since the ending wasn't all that clear, it was left open to interpretation on just what exactly had happened in the final moment before the credits rolled.
Almost a decade later fans would get that answer with this movie, Advent Children. Set two years after the events of the game we see the aftermath for the survivours. A nasty illness has spread which is killing people off painfully and slowly, Shinra is pretty much wrecked and the future isn't looking too great for humanity.
I'm sure the description given above can give you enough of a basis.
The movie opens well enough but once the action began to heat up the story seemed to fall by the wayside and become a nonsensical mess of things happening for the sake of things happening, it can be hard to keep track of what exactly is going on even if you've completed the game beforehand.
It's an interesting movie with amazing animation, the CGI is beautifully made with smooth animations while looking amazing. Especially when you consider that this movie came out around 2005 or so and it still looks impressive to this day.
Had the story been less of a disjointed experience then I would have rated the movie higher, I feel the movie would have benefited more from being a two parter or a three parter with the first part being the gradual lead up, the second part being where everything starts to fully kick off and the third part being the 'epic' conclusion'.
That would have allowed the story to be given a chance to really develop and explain everything instead of trying to cram everything into over ninety minutes.
Pros:
Great animation that still holds up today
It does conclude the story of Final Fantasy 7 for the most part in places
The voice acting isn't too bad
Cons:
The story becomes nonsensical quite quickly and loses itself in the action
Having so much crammed into over ninety minutes tends to mean the story isn't as fleshed out as it could be
Some of the voice acting can be cringy.
A good movie, just could have been so much more if given the chance to really develop.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2019
It was hyped, it was raved about and it was very popular once it was released. Looking back at it now almost twenty two years since it's western release the game hasn't aged super well but it's still enjoyable enough.
Of course after the game was completed and the ending was seen there were already requests to see what happened afterwards since the ending wasn't all that clear, it was left open to interpretation on just what exactly had happened in the final moment before the credits rolled.
Almost a decade later fans would get that answer with this movie, Advent Children. Set two years after the events of the game we see the aftermath for the survivours. A nasty illness has spread which is killing people off painfully and slowly, Shinra is pretty much wrecked and the future isn't looking too great for humanity.
I'm sure the description given above can give you enough of a basis.
The movie opens well enough but once the action began to heat up the story seemed to fall by the wayside and become a nonsensical mess of things happening for the sake of things happening, it can be hard to keep track of what exactly is going on even if you've completed the game beforehand.
It's an interesting movie with amazing animation, the CGI is beautifully made with smooth animations while looking amazing. Especially when you consider that this movie came out around 2005 or so and it still looks impressive to this day.
Had the story been less of a disjointed experience then I would have rated the movie higher, I feel the movie would have benefited more from being a two parter or a three parter with the first part being the gradual lead up, the second part being where everything starts to fully kick off and the third part being the 'epic' conclusion'.
That would have allowed the story to be given a chance to really develop and explain everything instead of trying to cram everything into over ninety minutes.
Pros:
Great animation that still holds up today
It does conclude the story of Final Fantasy 7 for the most part in places
The voice acting isn't too bad
Cons:
The story becomes nonsensical quite quickly and loses itself in the action
Having so much crammed into over ninety minutes tends to mean the story isn't as fleshed out as it could be
Some of the voice acting can be cringy.
A good movie, just could have been so much more if given the chance to really develop.
and you are wondering is it worth getting this on Blu-Ray?.......the answer is a resounding YES.
For starters the picture quality is amazing, the dvd was good in its day but having seen this I couldn't sit through the old version again.
And even better this disc has more story, for starters there is a very good anime short about Denzel and his backstory (if you've seen the film before I recommend watching this first) and this is also weaved into the main feature along with a good half hours worth of extra materiel (materia ?) all of which now makes the story make more sense and flow along better, it also answers some questions about some MIA characters (no spoilers)
Soundtrack is also much richer (5.1 here).
And at this price its a bargain.
1: If I am wide awake, it is entertaining and the Japanese voice acting as usual is superb, the subtitles are also very clear.
2: If I can't sleep straight away, but am dead tired, the music puts me out like a baby.
The movie looks just fantastic. I watched the movie from a big screen and there are some aliasing problems (outlines have almost unnoticeable jagged distortions) which didn't bother me at all. Again some scenes don't look as sharp as some others but it's still so good-looking movie that you don't really care about the little imperfections.
The movie includes Japanese Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and (even though it doesn't say that in the cover) English Dolby TrueHD 5.1 and they sound awesome, the English-dub is actually pretty good. Subtitles are English Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish (with a few wrong translations), Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish and Turkish.
Extras: An animated short "On the Way to a Smile - Episode: Denzel" which is drawn anime. It tells the story of Denzel and I think it's pretty good. It's in Japanese like all other extras and only subtitles seem to be English and Italian.
Then theres two "Story Digests", first showing important story clips from the original FFVII with amazing music (wich appear to be from the "Distant Worlds"-albums) and short live action scenes with cloud speaking to his phone, reminding the credits of the main movie. It's pretty cool and surely nostalgic to those who have played FFVII. Then there's another story digest about the other games in the FFVII universe including Before Crisis, Crisis Core and Dirge of Cerberus which is still pretty fun but it's not as good as the first story digest.
"Legacy of FINAL FANTASY VII" is a featurette that tells the really really basic history of the Final Fantasy VII franchise. It's not completely bad but you probably already know everything it has to say, it doesn't really tell much.
Then there is trailers for the Advent Children but only for the new "Complete" version of the movie.
THERE IS NO MAKING OF DOCUMENTS OR THE "LAST ORDER" ANIMATED SHORT!!!



















