Aug 1, 2009
Well then, lets sit down, take off our nostalgia goggles, put on our thinking caps and review "Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children."
Remember when you first found out there was going to be a FF7 movie and was like, "Awesome!" Then you heard the title was "Advent Children" and nervously thought, "Well that's a stupid name." That was your early warning.
Really its amazing what you get away with when you've established a strong fan-base. Just ask Kyoani.
I think there might have been a plot, but even after repeated viewings with the "complete" version, this is still unclear. Apparently children are involved, but their relevance to
...
the story is rendered inconsequential later on and just forgotten about. Any established plot elements are quickly thrown out the window once the fighten' begins and we really ramp up the fanservice and suddenly, all your favorite FF7 characters show up out of no where to fight Bahamut. Beam me up Scotty because I think this series of events makes no sense.
I watched this with a mixed group of friends, some of whom played the game, some hadn't. Advent Children was an uncomfortable embarrassment to watch. Its one of those things that made me want to crawl in a hole and die rather than deal with the social anxiety. WARNING: Advent Children may cause your friends to not like you. Maybe that's a bit extreme, but now my friends are wary whenever I recommend something to watch.
"I loved FF7 Advent Children! It was cool seeing my favorite characters again!" WRONG! The characters in Advent Children are sad caricatures of their in-game counterparts. In-game Cloud was a well humored tough-guy with a cool attitude. Basically he was Bruce Willace. In Advent Children he's a soulless angst-ridden creature who saunters about his landscape with a lone wolf bug up his butt. Sephiroth, who is a complex web of emotion, psychopathy, and plagued by chronic superiority complex is reduced to a generic final boss, which serves merely to put some closure on this befuddling narrative. Why is Sepheroth fighting Cloud? Well, because he was summoned and because he's evil. How's that for a climatic ending? Its no surprise that no effort was put into the movies plot when all people wanted to see was the fight between Cloud and Sephiroth at the end. But, Sephiroth is dead right? Welp, looks like we're going to have to make some serious leaps in logic if we're going to make this stupid scene happen. The whole movie is just trying to set up this one scene, damning the consequences.
Can't we all just agree that FF7 is awesome and Advent Children sucks? Is that really so much of a betrayal of the franchise? No, it is the franchise who has betrayed us.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
What did you think of this review?
Nice
0
Love it
0
Funny
0
Confusing
0
Well-written
0
Creative
0Show all
