DANTE'S INFERNO

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“Dante’s Inferno” is a animated movie that is based on the video game that hasn’t even come out yet. Dante works as a knight of the templar. When he comes home one day he finds his dying wife Beatrice. She dies but as she ascends to heaven, Lucifer shows up and steals her soul. Dante goes to hell to get her soul back. In hell, he has to fight though the nine circles of hell to find his beloved.

The movie in general feels a little bit lazy and waries in quality. The quality is different because every segment (rings of hell) are animated by different artists. Some good and some are actually very good. It seems for some reason that they took the plot of the game and squeezed it down to 90 minutes. This is probably the reason why the movie feels so weak. Girl is more in to fantasy so you’ll get a better reason from her to watch it or not.

Guy’s Rating: Seems like the game might be better.

Girl's hrmm...

This movie was pornographic and brutal. What it lacks in story, it made up in violent imagery. I'm not complaining, however. You watch a movie about a decent into Hell, and this is what I would expect to see. But, this movie is not for children. In fact, if you show this movie to children, you should reconsider whether you deserve to live. Some of the images drawn in this anime would disturb adults, let alone the vulnerable, developing mind of a child. That's how seriel killers are born.

Still, I enjoyed most segments of this film. Some artists were awful, depicting characters that looked too much like the stuff out of Pokemon (which I enjoy in it's own Saturday morning slot, but is not appropriate for the City of Dis), and some artists were fantastic in their illustration of a man deteriorating against the evil Lucifer puts him against.

To make or break any video game adapted movie, whether it be an animation or not, it comes down to visuals. Resident Evil was awesome because it had the beautiful heroine and some pretty wicked zombie attack scenes. Final Fantasy, in it's time, looked spectacular. It still does, in my opinion. A fun fact! I had my first kiss during Final Fantasy: Spirt Within. Ah, the romance! Final Fantasy: Advent Children, complete with an actual story-line that could tie into the video game, was also spectacular. And, although some segments of Dante's Inferno did not impress, enough of them did to make this movie worth watching.

Girl's Rating: If you like seeing movies with your favorite video game characters in them, then you will like this animation. If you aren't a fantasy geek, don't watch this and save us the annoyance of your superior judgement.