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V_Translanka

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Love the series. Love the movie. LOVE ED!!! She's easily one of my favorite anime characters of all time. Oh, when will "The Adventures of Ed & Ein" become a thing? >_>

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Posted nov 13, 2008 11:17 am pt

Slayervorge3000

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Cowboy Bebop The Movie is based off a popular anime series on television now turned into a movie, pretty much like Simpsons The Movie. Anyway it's about thia bounty hunter in search for a man that is killing millions with a virus. If you like guns...
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Cowboy Bebop The Movie is based off a popular anime series on television now turned into a movie, pretty much like Simpsons The Movie. Anyway it's about thia bounty hunter in search for a man that is killing millions with a virus. If you like guns and explosions then this is the right anime for you.

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Posted aug 10, 2007 10:09 am pt

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Based off a popular anime series of the same name, Cowboy Bebop catches up to the band of bounty hunters, otherwise known as cowboys, as they are offered a 300 million Woolongs after a bio-terrorist attack hits Mars. What you get next are some...
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Based off a popular anime series of the same name, Cowboy Bebop catches up to the band of bounty hunters, otherwise known as cowboys, as they are offered a 300 million Woolongs after a bio-terrorist attack hits Mars. What you get next are some great action sequences and the great wacky humor seen throughout the series. There is a problem in that people new to the series will miss out on some of the gags, but Cowboy Bebop The Movie is an overall great movie.

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Posted mar 28, 2007 11:18 am pt

John666666666

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I truly loved COWBOY BEBOP the tv series, but the movie didn't have the same feel to it.

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Posted feb 25, 2007 4:16 am pt

Kennybenny15

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This movie was very good. Like all super anime movies it was hard to understand it and the last time i watched was probley when I was eleven but what a great movie. I should try watching it again and it should make more sence.

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Posted feb 15, 2007 5:04 am pt

• [+] Salon.com
  
  80
  There's something to be said for watching an animated movie not with the eyes of a child, but with those of a turned-on grownup.

  by Stephanie Zacharek | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  80
  Demonstrates how exciting and vital contemporary animated filmmaking is in Japan. The characters may not move with the fluidity of their American counterparts, but the story unfolds with a sinister grace that any live-action director might envy.

  by Charles Solomon | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  80
  Has something for everyone.

  by Staff (Not credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  Magnetic, beautiful stuff.

  by Patrick Z. McGavin | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  75
  Isn't exactly adult animation but it's more complex and ambiguous than the usual Hollywood live-action blockbuster, and just as splashy.

  by Sean Axmaker | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  It certainly fulfills all the conventions of the genre: sci-fi premise, noir stylings, martial arts, snarky dialogue.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  70
  The atmospherics are wonderfully dark and film-noirish, if overly violent.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  70
  There are so many good ideas at the visual level that you can't help wishing the narrative elements had been more cleverly worked out.

  by David Chute | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  67
  These visual techniques also serve to emphasize the Japanese anime fetishes for violence and female body parts -- you can always count on a gun or a breast to be in the foreground' but I'll take this opportunity to again stress that this is an adult cartoon.

  by Marjorie Baumgarten | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  63
  Despite the spectacularly cool opening credits and some first-rate animation, the story starts to flag about halfway through.

  by Elizabeth Weitzman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  63
  If you want state of the art anime that comes within spitting distance of escaping the limits of its genre, this might be your cup of bootleg sake.

  by Ty Burr | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  63
  With all due respect to Japanese animation fans and pop-culture enthusiasts, life may be just too short to plunge into the busy world of Cowboy Bebop.

  by Liam Lacey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Premiere
  
  63
  There's much visual inventiveness and a good sense of fun here. But I was expecting something more spectacular.

  by Glenn Kenny | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  60
  Brisk, engaging story.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Dallas Observer
  
  60
  When the action sequences work, they work well; the climax cribs heavily from 1989's "Batman," but improves on Tim Burton's finale.

  by Luke Y. Thompson | Read Full Review »