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Review for Slayers: The Motion Picture
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Lina wakes up from a weird dream involving some blue haired kid, but ignores it and heads to the continent's coast. Before she gets there, she is involved in a misunderstanding with some bandits. She comes out of this scenario unscathed and a tad richer, but the persistent bandits hire their own sorceress, Naga. After Naga is taught by her friend not to mess with fire, she decides to finish this rivalry with the bandits once and for all. With their foes defeated, Naga finds the fallen have passes to Mipross Island, home of many of the finest hot springs so she decides to drags Lina along with her, but since their ship's food isn't bad, our heroine decides this trip to be worthwhile.
Before they arrive on the island, Lina has an even weirder dream about the blue haired kid which is being created by an unknown sage. Once they reach the island, the two have to deal with many of the top ten strongest fighters/magicians of the island all of which have some thing related to a pink octopus on them or with them. After another dream posted by the old sage, Lina is hired by the king of one of the villages to investigate why all this is happening. She still isn't sure about going through with this investigation until the sage tells her she can visit the Spring of Growth afterwards which seals the deal. Of course is this unknown foe going to be able to be defeated by these two sorceresses, and is the Spring of Growth all it has been made out to be.
Everything runs pretty smoothly through the first two acts of the film especially its ability to put so much action and twist into itself. If it wasn't for the great characters though, the film would have really fallen apart after the first two acts. I guess thats what happen when you create a villain that is way to powerful, you have to come up with a really implausible and hardly understandable way of defeating it like Tenchi Muyo in Love. Otherwise all the other villains work well especially with attacks that one could only thing about if they had some bad acid. The animation quality is great, better than any U.S. form except for Disney's. The soundtrack is good, but nothing really exceptional, and the dub really stretches from being sacriligeous from the original script. No villain would recite Syvester of the Looney Toons.
I'm not much for midevil fantasies, but this was definately worth watching for its comedy, its characters, and pretty cool action sequences. It's still not for everybody, but I don't think it would hurt anyone to sample the Slayer universe. Of course this is the cheapest which is the best way for a high school to build a varied anime collection and the best way to make sure receive less hurting for less cash if you don't like it.
Reviews and opinions of this site © 1999 Russ Stevens
Slayers © 1995 Kanzake Hajime - Araizumi Rui / Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. - Bandai Visual Co., Ltd. - Marubeni Corporation - King Record Co., Ltd.
Released in North America by A.D.V. Films. Packaging Design © 1998 A.D. Vision, Inc.
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