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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • Animated • Collector's Edition • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2003 DVD Release : 13 September, 2005 |
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Hammerboy description The Korean feature Hammerboy (2003) was adapted from a popular manhwa (graphic novel) by Youngman Hur. In 2112, Mangchi, a pint-sized hero who's more enthusiastic than bright, lives in a setting that recalls Waterworld: a small colony on an island formed by two ruined skyscrapers. His grandfather forges the hammers Mangchi loves to ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | a decent first anime |
| This was my first korean anime to have seen. I wasn't sure what to think of this movie when I first heard about it. The movie's description seemed a little on the silly side. But the animation style and cover art, combined with the information I found through further web research made it interesting enough order for the price that it was going for.
The animation in this movie was quite clean and well done. However the story suffered from what seems to have been rushed, or lost in translation. No doubt parts have been edited for the younger of american audiences. As with a lot of dubbed anime, the voice acting could have been better directed, as well as better sync'd with the lip-flap. The voices themselves match the charecter's apearance pretty well. You may also recognize the main charecter's voice (Mangchi) as Veronica Taylor, the voice of Pokemon's "Ash Ketchum". This would make a good children's movie, though any good parent may be weiry of various scenes (gun violence [no blood though], Mangchi's midnight bathroom break [one scene, censored], an innocent fart joke, etc). However the fun in the movie is a great fantisy for the imagination. The only things that really bothered me was the feeling that there were a lot of holes in the story, and also the rushed ending that didn't bring closure to the entire story; without any hint of a sequal. The DVD itself was very well done. The menus are animated with clips from the movie that seemlessly loop. There are several features on the extras portion of the DVD such as american and korean trailers, as well as an american and korean music video of the ending theme song summing up the movie in about 3 minutes each with clips (the korean one was much better). And there are a bunch of other trailers for other anime of which I have never heard of, by animation teams that sound familiar. All in all, in the realm of children's anime, this one is pretty good. One good thing is, it doesn't try to sell you trading cards or action figures like most children's anime brought over from Japan and such. If you want some new anime to watch without futuristic space robots, and you don't like martial arts ninja and samuari action, and slow moving monster or card duals with long drawn out monologues aren't your thing, this movie is for you! I give it 5 stars because it is my kind of anime, minus one star because it's too short, minus another star because the ending was disapointing to me. (the graphic novel is probably way better) |
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