HALO: LEGENDS

Guy’s segmented thoughts...

So first me and Girl watched a segmented movie based on the not yet released videogame “Dante’s Inferno”. Now the turn has come to “Halo”. So this time they took a bunch of animators/directors from japan and gave them free rome on the “Halo” franchise. I wish I could say that all shorts was amazing, but they weren’t. A couple of similar projects are already out there, the “Batman” collaborations and the “Animatrix” collection. So unfortunately I have to compare these a little bit, only because the predecessors were a tad better.

The biggest difference to me is probably the quality control. It almost feels like they struggled this time to get all the directors in place. Only because some of the shorts are not to par with a collection like this and are almost instantly forgotten after watching it. For example the fuzzy looking short where the aliens where fighting each other... meh.

The best short out of all of them was clearly “The Babysitter”. Everything from the story to the animation was everything you could wish for in something like this and they had a great twist on the myth that is Master Chief.

Guy’s Rating: Watch only if you’re a superfan of the Halo games.

Girl's review...

Like I said in my Dante's Inferno review, these video game adaptations are only as good as their visuals. Out of the ten or so segments, I remember two.

One of the two was "The Babysitter". The visuals, although nothing dramatically different than the rest, were drawn with obvious talent. Nothing was hasty in their creation, and the twist on Master Chief's character was an appealing explanation mark on this segment.

The other segment I remembered for how bad it was. It created a charactiture of Halo, and for some random reason, Dragon Ball-Z. Maybe there is some connection there I am not privy, too, but watching it, it seemed pretty stupid.

Girl's Rating: Forgettable. Absurd. Childish. A mockery of a good franchise. Need a reason not to watch this? I have many.