Ghost in the Shell

I am not "into" anime, but I enjoy it. I saw GITS when I was younger, but the only thing I remember from it is me going, "THEY JUST SHOWED HER BOOBS!"... so I have no idea what THIS G.I.T.S. is about/based on. The only thing I know is that whenever Redwampa makes a movie, you know it's going to be good. I did wonder if it wasn't going to be "Redwampa" good because Spencer Crabb is a solid director, he's just no Redwampa. I am happy to say that, for the most part, you can't tell who made what scenes and the action sequences are very entertaining.

My only gripes with the movie, as you can tell by the rating breakdown (as seen on Tunafilms.ca [/PLUG]), was the sound effects and some of the voice actors. A lot of the sounds were either inappropriate or well known sounds from games. Usually I don't care, but a lot of the sounds just didn't go well, AT ALL with the scenes. During the beginning, a cyborg jumps off the building and turns invisible. Fine, cool... but then Motoko makes a "KURPLUNK" type sound while landing on a puddle in the street. Now... how exactly do you make a "kurplunk" sound with a small puddle? It was really offputting.

What also confused me is that... isn't Mokoto a girl? Why did Jaymond do the voice? Or is it a guy? I have no idea... damn 3dmm character being metrosexual. Anyway, I'm too lazy to look at the credits to remember who played who, but there was one guy (evil dude with funky eye), well... he sounded like an angry Harry Potter and it just made me laugh everytime he talked. Then there were others who were very, "I-am-reading-from-a-script" sounding, which is normal, but for the longer talking scenes, it was rather noticeable. People doing the sub-main/small roles did a good job... especially Redwampa, holy poo, I had no idea he was such a good voice actor!

Speaking of Redwampa being AWESOME AT EVERYTHING, as usual, the animation and scenery are extremely well done and the eye candy never stops... but Red/Crabb, dudes... whenever there are 2 people fighting physically, like, with their body and not EVIL GUNS, it's so bland and nothing about their fighting is special. Most of the time it's just one person out with the Karate-Kick position and someone getting hit. That wasn't fun to see... so it was a good thing that there were plenty of fun scenes of people getting shot at and dodging various projectiles.

The only thing that "brought down" this movie, as I said earlier, are few of the voice actors and some of the sound effects. If they were improved, this movie would have definately gotten a SUPERFISH! That being said, this still gets 4.5 fish from me, which is very much with the goodness! This gets my Greater Tuna Recommendation and even if you're like me and don't know what the hell the anime GITS is about, you'll still really enjoy this and probably be on your top 10 list of fav movies.