Full Metal Alchemist 4 - The Fall Of Ishbal (DVD)

Advantages: Brilliant concept and story line
Disadvantages: The animation isn't really the best I have seen

...Introduction: The Full Metal Alchemist is a show about people that can change matter of different objects, rearrange this matter and make something completely different, this is the science of alchemy. The show is based on the law of equivalent exchange which states... "Human kind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return, to obtain something, something of equal value must be lost." The Full Metal Alchemist was origionally a Japanese show which has been dubbed in English. Usually dubbing of Japanese TV shows and video games are terrible with over eggsagerated speech and voices you wouldn't necessarilly put with the characters, but I am pleased to say that this series has got the dubbing perfect, with believable voices and enough emotion to not be over the top. The story is about a young prodigy of Alchemy... Read review

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Advantages: Good quality anime, good subtitiles
Disadvantages: Very bad English dubbing

...episode, some nice lighting in places and some quite satisfying explosions. All in all this DVD is pretty good, it introduces a very good Anime, Full Metal Panic is not the only series that has been produced. There is also Full Metal Panic: Fummofu and Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid. If your looking purely for a comedy anime this series isn't really for you. If you want action and adventure and one of animes finest none starting romances then this is the series you should enjoy. I personally like the first half of this series, but greatly prefer Fummofu and The Second Raid simple because they are far funnier and in the case of The Second Raid have more explosions. Unfortunaley for the people who like to listen to the English dub rather than read the subtitles this is one of the examples of a genuinely awful dubbing. The series has some... Read review

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Advantages: Acting, sets and special effects.
Disadvantages: Where did the end go???

...◊^^^Synopsis^^^◊ Full Metal Jacket is Stanley Kubrick?s painful depiction of the lives of new marine trainees as they go through training, graduate and finally end up in Vietnam. A large proportion of the film focuses on the harsh and inhumane training designed to dehumanize people and turn them into, with the help of the demoralising D.I (Lee Ermey), into indestructible killers for the benefit of the United States, men without fear. The D.I?s treatment to the trainee?s is so brutal that some can?t take anymore of the mental hardship. Whilst exploring both the physical and mental suffering of marine trainees the films main focus is on one man, ?Joker? (Matthew Modine). After graduation most of the new marines end up in Vietnam and then the film takes a more direct view point as it follows Joker as he is released into... Read review

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