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Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Rectangular_businessman "Escaflowne: The Movie" is an average anime film. The animation was quite good, and the music, made by the great composer Yoko Kanno it's incredible, but the plot is just average. It changes a lot from the excellent TV-series, turning the story into a typical fantasy:Van it's more immature than in the TV series and also has a more aggressive (Without any apparent reason) personality. Hitomi became in this movie a more depressive character and Allen don't have any romantic interested on her, and now Allen looks like Sephirot. This movie don't have so much romance and drama as the TV- series, focusing in the action instead. The result it's not necessarily bad, but the TV series is much better. However, in the good side, you don't need to watch the series first to understand this movie: Both are completely different productions without different values.

Kelly For any Escaflowne fan, this film is a must-see. The charm that the Escaflowne series had has not been lost and is brought to life again in this feature length film.Characters are drawn beautifully, and in more detail - some looking completely different (millerna seems to have undergone a full makeover and is now unrecognisable), the music is as awe-inspiring as it was in the series, the animation is much smoother, but the storyline has changed drastically - though it is still told wonderfully.I have to say that as a fan of the series romance between Van and Hitomi, I was fairly disappointed with the lack of it in the film - Though don't get me wrong, you can still sense something between them.This film is one of the best anime films I've seen, and if you like anime you can really get into and understand then this is the one for you (though I recommend watching the series before if you can).Any fan of anime has to watch this, it's truly beautiful.

mabramowitz I first watched the series "The Vision of Escaflowne" and was impressed with the deep storyline and characters. Now understandably, it is difficult to take a 26 episode series and convert it into a 2 hour movie.The movie's storyline does not make much sense. Like the series, it is about a girl named Hitomi, who hates her life and wants to escape from everything. Her wish comes true and she is magically to the world of Gaea.In the series, an empire called Zaibach was trying to harness the power of Atlantis so everyone's dreams can come true. In the movie, Zaibach is replaced with the Black Dragon clan, and the Black Dragon Clan is trying to destroy the world so everyone's sorrow can be lifted. The Emperor of Zaibach, Dornkirk is absent from the movie, replacing him with Folken who was also in the series. Folken, my favorite character from the series, is turned from a man who believes he is doing the right thing but isn't, into a stereotypical villain who simply wants to destroy the world.Out of nowhere towards the beginning of third act of the movie, suddenly the dragon armor (Guymelefs in the series) Escaflowne has the power to destroy the world. Whether or not it destroys the world, rests in the wish of Hitomi, who is believed to be the legendary Wing Goddess.Everything is solved so quickly by the end. The end fight scene is unexciting and by that time, I just didn't care about the rest of the movie.Its hard to say whats exactly wrong with the movie. I guess its a combination of a weak story, weak characters, poor voice-overs, and bad pacing. The animation is cool in some of the fight scenes. Note I said "some" of the fight scenes.Watch the series, though it has its problems, its far better than this so called "re-telling."

SonicStuart I remembered the Escaflowne TV-Series that came on Fox Kids Saturday Mornings but had no clue why did they cancel it. But the movie on the other side of the coin was that it had more violence and had blood cuts. But the movie had really great animation to it and I really liked the whole plot of the movie. The movie all begins about this one high school girl named Hitomi who keeps having these weird dreams that go through her mind. So then she gets sent to this different world the moment she wakes up! Van the Prince of an abandon kingdom is now trying to defeat his evil brother Folken who is now trying to destroy the Empire of Zaibach. So now with the power of Escaflowne, Hitomi and Van most fight for freedom!Star Rating: ***** out of 5BOTTOM LINE: IF YOU REMEMBER THIS SERIES FROM FOX KIDS WATCH THIS MOVIE!