BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

John Doe PLEASE NOTE: This review will also be on the Ghost in the Shell (1995) IMDb section since they are the same movie)Ghost in the Shell was an amazing Anime film, that broke the mold on Sci-fi for the 1990's (like that Akira did for the 1980's.) The story is intriguing and interesting and the acting is very well done for both the English dub and Japanese versions. I doubt I need to explain the story to you since you have probably seen this by now but if you haven't, please watch it. You'll be happy you did. I give 'Ghost in the Shell 2.0' a 8/10

artur-artborg First up, I want to make it clear that my rating goes to "Ghost in the Shell 2.0" and not the original film. The rating has nothing to do with the original storyline or old animation blablabla but only this new version, which is completely unnecessary in every imaginable way. The classic animation utilised in the original film looked amazing, and removing some of these classic masterpiece animations and intercutting them with new CGI stuff looks and feels, well, wrong.It's not BAD CGI, but unnecessary, and jarring when intercut with the older (and in my opinion superior) style.Don't watch "Ghost in the Shell 2.0". Buy the original version and enjoy that one instead.

Paul Sweed GITS is one of my favourite films, and one of the first DVD's I bought when the format was new on the scene. After watching Innocence (which looked great), I was quite ready to see something totally awesome in this update. I was wrong.As another comment said, they should have re-done the whole film, instead of a bit here and there. I couldn't enjoy the movie when it kept switching from CGI to cel-shaded animation. Also, considering this was made FOUR years after Innocence, the CGI is awful. Most of the time Motoko looks like a plastic doll. Not cool.The music and sound effects were re-done, sometimes better, most times not. In the original GITS if somebody was getting beaten up, you would hear them scream. In 2.0, a guy gets his ankle broken and doesn't even let out a whisper. Stupid. The main theme song (the choral piece) was re-recorded and it too lost a lot of impact.Don't bother with this. Just watch the original.

snowboarderbo I gave this 1 star out of 10, not because the story sucks or anything, but because this was a completely unnecessary waste of time and effort.Here's the idea: take one of the greatest animes ever produced and re-draw certain shots with new CGI. Then intercut them with the original animation.The new CGI is very well done; unfortunately, it doesn't match the original artwork at all, and tends to distract from the overall film. It's like having someone slap you every few seconds.One other reviewer mentioned that this seemed like something George Lucas would do, and if you saw the "new" Star Wars films that came out in the 1990s with added scenes and (crappily done) CGI, you've had a taste of what was done with GITS 2.0. But imagine if the original was in B&W and the new scenes were not just in color, but completely CGI. That's how jarring GITS 2.0 is.If the creators wanted to do something with the new CGI technology that exists, they should have come up with a new idea, not tried to re-hash an old movie. They aren't even "re- imagining" it, they are just doing it over again. It's as if an artist working with charcoal discovered watercolors, and then tried to paint over all his old works. This was a terrible idea.My advice is to forget that this movie exists, and just watch the original.