Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no Tobira

Another day, another bounty—such is the life of the often unlucky crew of the Bebop. However, this routine is interrupted when Faye, who is chasing a fairly worthless target on Mars, witnesses an oil tanker suddenly explode, causing mass hysteria. As casualties mount due to a strange disease spreading through the smoke from the blast, a whopping three hundred million woolong price is placed on the head of the supposed perpetrator.

With lives at stake and a solution to their money problems in sight, the Bebop crew springs into action. Spike, Jet, Faye, and Edward, followed closely by Ein, split up to pursue different leads across Alba City. Through their individual investigations, they discover a cover-up scheme involving a pharmaceutical company, revealing a plot that reaches much further than the ragtag team of bounty hunters could have realized.

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Spiegel, Spike Main

Yamadera, Kouichi Japanese

Valentine, Faye Main

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV, Edward Main

Tada, Aoi Japanese

Black, Jet Main

Ishizuka, Unshou Japanese

Volaju, Vincent Main

Isobe, Tsutomu Japanese

Ovilo, Electra Main

Kobayashi, Ai Japanese

Ein Supporting

Yamadera, Kouichi Japanese

Judy Supporting

Nagasawa, Miki Japanese

Laughing Bull Supporting

Koyama, Takehiro Japanese

Punch Supporting

Tareki, Tsutomu Japanese

Maseba, Yutaka Producer

Minami, Masahiko Producer

Ueda, Masuo Producer

Takanashi, Minoru Producer

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Sep 4, 2024

2EZ4TQ

Recommended

First of all, is my first try with this movie. I watched this movie for parts because I got a busy life between family, job and my own time. So my opinion is based on a detailed analysis but I'm not gonna try to go deep on it.

The movie is amazing, the art and music (like always in Cowboy Bebop) never never lets me down. In this specific case, colors and art have something new that make me feel like movie wasn't made the year it was released. Wich is amazing.

Story and new characters are developed meticulously to be friendly with the spectator, so ... you gonna feel a special link with characters. Specially the main characters.

Duration of this movie is perfect, not too long, not too short.

Should I recommend this movie? Ofcours I will, but first. I recommend the anime and after watch it, check out this movie. It is better to understand the small details.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Sep 14, 2022

Vjestiprime

Mixed Feelings

I've seen cowboy bebop the movie twice now, the first of which I watched straight after watching the series and found myself confused as to why certain things had not changed due to events later in the series, until I discovered the film is most likely set between episode 22 and 23 of the series, and during my current rewatch of the series I decided to watch the movie where it's set chronologically, but even after watching it here I still find myself struggling to get the same entertainment value as I do from the masterful TV series.

The story takes a turn from Cowboy Bebop's ... sci-fi roots, telling a story more fitting for an anime like Ghost in the Shell, the film has barely any sci-fi elements compared to the series and goes for a more noir crime esc style of story, the film is also much more dialogue heavy than the series, the pacing of the shows episodical structure works much better than that of a feature length film, I feel like this story would of been better if it was told through a multi-part series of episodes, as the action Cowboy Bebop is known for is side lined for a more dialogue heavy story which feels duller in a feature length style.

Although the film is weaker on the story side compared to the series that doesn't mean it's bad at all, it's still a boat load of fun as it's refined and sleek animation looks stunning all the way through especially when the action takes place. I'd also say that everyone but the classic cast of characters are extremely weak, Vincent is your typical mumble growling philosophy obsessed villain we've seen many times before, and honestly feels like a lazy cut and paste of the show's much better villain 'Vicious', what made Vicious such a good villain was his emotional connection to the characters and the amount of time we had to understand his character and ideology, while Vincent's character arc is crammed into a 2 hour runtime (which is extremely short compared to how long we got with Vicious and his story in the series). Electra is also your typical anime badass we've seen hundreds of times before. Regardless, the classic band of bounty hunters have never been better, Spike, Faye, Jet, Ed and Ein are always a joy to watch and this film is no exception.

The colours in the film are much warmer than the series, while the series opted for colder blue and grey colours, the film goes for a brighter look with orange, brown, bright blue and blinding whites and silvers, I find it rather unique and for that I commemorate it.

And how could I talk about Cowboy Bebop without discussing it's music, the franchise and it's soundtrack is regarded as one of if not the best in anime history, and the movie features some of my favourite tracks from Yoko Ono and seatbelts, one of which has become one of my favourite all round songs of all time.

Overall, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is still the same explosive entertainment the franchise is celebrated for, it's a good watch and I like the film but I feel like better filmmaking and writing choices could of been made in order to make the film more refined, as in the state it's in it simply doesn't match the glory of the original 1998 series.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jan 24, 2024

JermaineM

Not Recommended

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They thought they could just buy the rights to clone characters and we'll swallow the media like animals who neither care nor know what they are eating. Anyone who watched the series for its storytelling could tell this is the extracted commercial version of the series sold out to Mr.risk-free-corporate so a marketing team armed with all the audience reports money can buy could pimp it out to a mass of horny "fans" who couldn't give a buck what sucked them off behind the dumpster as long as it ended in "bebop".

[Quotes from the meetings with producers & teams]

"...you think? in case you don't know ... the kind of money they put into this thing, they want real music, the good stuff; none of that confusing jazz shit... oh, about that; Yoko Kanno's just a credit, we had her supervise and let our own guys put something together, crowd's gonna love it"

"...I think I can speak for everyone when I say I was lost from the start, how's the audience supposed to follow any of this if we can't?!... no I don't need to be a writer to know wh... look, people think like kids, It's the same in sales, if you don't tell them what to look for, they don't know what they're looking at, follow?"

"...that weird boy who sounds like a girl, yeah, make him say even more weird stuff!... Hey, HEY! No he's not gonna become a main character...I don't care if it's a ladyboy or whatever, the kids like him, put it in!... no I hear you; and I'm saying only kids watch cartoons"

"...of course I watched the show, even I liked the parts where bebop flew his plane super fast and dodged the shots from the bounty hunters, put one of those in, make a long one... I don't understand?...not really what I wanted to hear, you're the director; just make it fit"

"...this isn't a show you know, where making; a movie "based" on the show...no you're not seeing it, it's "Cowboy-Bebop-the-movie"... I keep repeating myself because you keep complaining...the show had a completely different episode every time, this is just another completely different episode...it doesn't have to match or anything, everyone will like it, we promise"

"...loved the butterflies I think that'll sit well with our female audience...now where should we put the boob for our male audience... of course it needs a boob...yeah yeah go back to your den, you know what sells more than anything else? the movie's getting a boob no matter what, you know the rules"

An awful storyboard and even worse dialogue make for an amazingly predictable and godawful 2hrs. Boy, I sure hope they never think to do anything like this again in 2021.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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