VERY FEW SPOILERS
Cowboy Bebop is an incredible TV series with unforgettable characters, incredible storyline, brutal action, and odd humor. This movie fits it into 114 minutes perfectly. Some people say it's bad. Don't listen! The movie is just like the TV show. Now the opening and ending songs are not quite what we would expect from Cowboy Bebop but they are still quite good. This movie takes place between sessions 22 and 23 because it would be very hard to make a movie that continues the series. This movie takes when Spike was carefree and not as concerned with his past as he is in the final three sessions. This movie partially explains why he goes back to confront his past at the end of the series.
The villain Vincent, is superb and has a very (nay, extremely) odd motivation. He's going to unleash a deadly nano-virus to the people of Mars to see if he is truly alive or in a dream. Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed, and Ein have only a little more characterization than in the TV series. It's fun to see Big Shot again even though they have no information as usual. Yoko Kanno's music score is superb as usual, the action doesn't let up, Ed gets to go trick-or-treating (this scene is a bit off-color), Jet meets Bob again, stuff blows up.
The animation is also top-notch. The fights are fluid and camera angles perfect. Vincent's past is a very well directed piece. Look for Andy in the Halloween scene. Grade: A+
Rated R for strong animated violence, language, and sensuality.
Note: There is a reason why this movie wasn't released in the US in 2002. The whole plot is about bio-terrorism.
Cowboy Bebop is an incredible TV series with unforgettable characters, incredible storyline, brutal action, and odd humor. This movie fits it into 114 minutes perfectly. Some people say it's bad. Don't listen! The movie is just like the TV show. Now the opening and ending songs are not quite what we would expect from Cowboy Bebop but they are still quite good. This movie takes place between sessions 22 and 23 because it would be very hard to make a movie that continues the series. This movie takes when Spike was carefree and not as concerned with his past as he is in the final three sessions. This movie partially explains why he goes back to confront his past at the end of the series.
The villain Vincent, is superb and has a very (nay, extremely) odd motivation. He's going to unleash a deadly nano-virus to the people of Mars to see if he is truly alive or in a dream. Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed, and Ein have only a little more characterization than in the TV series. It's fun to see Big Shot again even though they have no information as usual. Yoko Kanno's music score is superb as usual, the action doesn't let up, Ed gets to go trick-or-treating (this scene is a bit off-color), Jet meets Bob again, stuff blows up.
The animation is also top-notch. The fights are fluid and camera angles perfect. Vincent's past is a very well directed piece. Look for Andy in the Halloween scene. Grade: A+
Rated R for strong animated violence, language, and sensuality.
Note: There is a reason why this movie wasn't released in the US in 2002. The whole plot is about bio-terrorism.