#Final fantasy spirits within type movie#

Listening to FF:TSW's characters ham-handedly describing the poignancy of certain ideas (the countless souls of a lost world wandering endlessly, looking for 'release') is sometimes like watching a kindergartener trying to finger paint a picture he/she has in their heads, but lacks the experience or refinement to realize. It feels like a video game cut scene, leaving us to watch the eye candy.Ģ) Al Reinert (the writer and director of the awesome documentary For All Mankind), Jeff Vintar, and Sakaguchi's screenplay is enormously stirring in concept, but it lacks the elegance and the poetry to convey the beauty of what they're trying to say. It's pedestrian, almost laughable in its 'point and shoot' nature, excluding us from many moments in which we should have been involved.

#Final fantasy spirits within type movie#

In many ways, this movie is directed like the stereotypical science fiction episode we might see parodied on late night comedy shows – Sakaguchi's handling and blocking of many sequences is undynamic, and rarely pulls us into the drama, into the action, or into the moment. But there's very little awe and magic in FF:TSW, due to three basic shortcomings:ġ) Hironobu Sakaguchi's direction of the film (he also co-scripted the movie) is flat, uninvolving, and awkwardly paced/timed. We need to feel what the ideas mean, there needs to be a sense of awe or magic supporting such conceits. But when a movie starts considering ideas such as these, the narrative needs to resonate, to strike a chord with its viewers. These are profound concepts, and, as undercurrents, perhaps they are far too heady for (what is, in essence) a suspense/action film.

Yes, it is a cartoon.of sorts.but it's also the story of a young girl trying to save the Earth while she is dying the story of spirits from a dead world roaming the universe – lost and alone and re-defines notions of what a 'living' being is.

'It's a cartoon, a-hole!' chant Glen's vitriolic readers. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (set in the Final Fantasy universe, but not directly related to any of the numerous video games carrying the same title) is visually stunning, yet emotionally vacuous.