This may be strictly for anime junkies, but they'll find much to like about Cowboy Bebop's casual violence and cool dialogue. Read critic reviews
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
2002, Action/Comedy, 1h 54m
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Cocky Spike Spiegel and the crew of his spaceship, Bebop, an intrepid band of bounty hunters, land on Mars in the year 2071 chasing an enormous cash reward. The four-person team, also including looming cyborg Jet Black, fearless Faye Valentine and tech expert Edward, are in search of ex-military officer Vincent. The former hero has become a biological terrorist with an arsenal of devastating nano-bots that he'll let loose on Alba City on the night before Halloween if his demands aren't met.
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Rating: R
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Anime
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Original Language: Japanese
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Director: Shinichirô Watanabe, Hiroyuki Okiura
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Distributor: Columbia Tristar
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Sound Mix: Surround
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Critic Reviews for Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Audience Reviews for Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
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This is how you make an anime movie, I am a big fan of the series, so this is great. We have everything we love about Cowboy Bebop (The Music, the action scenes, the amazing characterization) brought together into this movie, and no anime movie has ended with a better song than this, Gotta Knock a Little Harder!
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Embodies everything I loved about Cowboy Bebop. The chemistry of the crew, the Scifi elements, Spike's martial arts prowess and delicious animation while still retaining that slick bounty hunter feel. Someday though I'll have to climb over that lame melodramatic mountain that seems present in all Anime. The main antagonist is such a quack, boohoo everyone died except me! I don't know about my past so I have to kill large amounts of people! Please.
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Cant quite figure what was wrong the first time so I watched it again and Im still not sure. There is the proper balance of action and plot the anime is top rate, but I just never got totally into it. I have never seen the series but it kept popping up as a 4+ star in my queue. Spike Spiegel is the main character who is the updated James Bond of bounty hunters. His partner is Jack Black, who from the oddly arranged comment in the movie is a will developed character in the show but poorly developed in the movie. Other characters are Faye Valentine the fleshed out anime women in the show. Do flesh tight lieder hosen short shorts really exist? Hmm. Ed and Ein are an amusing duo. Ed is an apparently 13 year old feral genius computer hacker and Ein is a normal looking genetically engineered Welsh corgi (Lap dog). Who can win at chess every time. Out of the hoe show Ein is the most addressable, he solves the tough questions but no one takes him serious because he is a dog and he cant talk. From what I read about the series the characters are well developed and multifaceted, but the movie is more of a more elaborately animated and longer episode. If you watch the series its probably a must without previous viewing it more like a sampler that not very fulfilling.
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"Well, that's a real shame. But, we're not cops and we're not from some charity organization. Sorry lady, we don't protect or serve. This is strictly business." One word came to my mind after watching this. Unnecessary. I have been putting off watching the Cowboy Bebop movie for several years now. I'm a huge fan of the show, but I had heard and read so many mixed or negative reviews of the movie online and from friends, that I was hesitant to see it. In the end, though, I figured that any Cowboy Bebop had to be somewhat worthwhile. That turned out to be partially true, but I still find myself disappointed. To be blunt, the story was completely uninteresting. Each episode of the series was like a (good) mini-movie on its own, so I don't get why giving the creators more time to develop and tell this story, ended up producing something that wasn't nearly as engaging as any given one of the original episodes. It felt like the decision to make the movie came first, and very little effort was put into making a worthy plot to go along with it. The new characters are uniformly dull, much of the soundtrack was poor (How did THAT happen? Where's the jazz?), and the film as a whole felt disjointed, at best. I tried as hard as o could to like it all, but the most positive description I can give for my experience is "meh". I'll admit that it warmed my fanboy heart to see Spike, Faye, and the gang in action again. The animation was very good, and some of the action scenes were top notch. But without the great storytelling that we've all come to expect, I'd recommend this to only the most fervent Cowboy Bebop fan. You'd have much more fun in the same amount of time by just watching four of your favorite episodes from the original show.
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