So we watched Final Fantasy : Advent Children last night. After seeing reviews pop up all over LJ I realized that the movie must have been released, so I poked Olli to download it for us. And OMG how gorgeous it was. Simply beautiful. The CG effects and the music were droolsome! Like, stunningly droolsome. I’m a complete sucker for pretty views and this one just took the cake sometimes. As for the music… Nobuo Uematsu did the soundtrack again and that was noticeable. The modern rendition of Sephiroth’s theme was fucking awesome. Made my neckhair stand on end. I *so* want that soundtrack!
Another good point was the humour. I won’t spoil the best moment in the whole movie, but the ringtone thing had Ol, Kat and me in stitches. I have to laugh even when I think of it again. At least the crew didn’t take themselves too seriously with creating this movie, in contrary to the deadly serious The Spirits Within.
Oh, and as for the plot and a pesky thing called gravity… well, that was non-existant. I don’t know how much got lost in translation, but the plot was crappy and basically just an excuse to throw everyone together again. But as long as you don’t really pay attention to that, you’ll have a good time watching this movie. If only for the pretty, and to see how the characters we all knew and loved really look in movie-form.