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Cowboy Bebop - The Movie | 
| Directors: Hiroyuki Okiura, Shinichiro Watanabe
Actors: Koichi Yamadera, Unsho Ishizuka, Megumi Hayashibara, Beau Billingslea, Melissa Fahn
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.94
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Rating:  231 reviews
Sales Rank: 4272
Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: 09055
ISBN: 0767894642
UPC: 043396090552
EAN: 9780767894647
ASIN: B00005JMBJ
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: June 24, 2003
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Product Description
Mars. Days before Halloween 2071. Villains blow up a tanker truck on Highway One releasing a deadly virus that kills hundreds. Fearing a bigger even more devastating biochemical attack an astronomical reward is offered for the arrest and capture of the person behind the destruction. On the space ship "Bebop" Spike Spiegel and his crew of bounty hunters (Jet Black Faye Valentine Ed and Ein) are bored and short of cash. But with the news of the reward everything changes. Based on the wildly popular TV series "Cowboy Bebop" the big screen smash COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE pits Spike and Co. against their deadliest adversary ever. Featuring stunning state-of-the-art animation this action-packed sci-fi adventure builds to a breath-taking nail-biting climax guaranteed to keep you hanging on the edge of your seat.DVD FeaturesThe Making of Cowboy Bebop: 6 Behind-the-Scenes featurettesMusic video for "Ask DNA" and "Gotta Knock a Little Harder"Conceptual Art GalleriesStoryboard ComparisonsIn-Depth Character ProfilesWidescreen PresentationDigitally Mastered Audio & Anamorphic VideoAudio: Original Japanese Theatrical Version and English 5.1 (Dolby Digital) FrenchSubtitles: English FrenchTheatrical TrailersAnimated MenusSystem Requirements:Running Time 114 MinsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM Rating: R UPC: 043396090552 Manufacturer No: 09055
Amazon.com
As the eagerly awaited Cowboy Bebop feature film reunites the original director, screenwriter, composer, and vocal cast, it's not surprising that the film plays like an expanded TV episode. What should be the routine capture of a two-bit hacker by Faye escalates into a deadly game of cat and mouse, as Spike and the gang struggle to prevent the evil Vincent Volaju from murdering every human on Mars. Director Shinichiro Watanabe handles the action sequences with his usual panache. Inside the sinister Cherious Medical research facility, Spike fights a beautiful agent, using a push broom in a series of maneuvers Jackie Chan might envy. The climactic duel between Spike and Vincent plays against innocent yet eerie images of a Halloween carnival, recalling the amusement park setting of episode 20, "Pierrot Le Fou." Knockin' on Heaven's Door will delight fans of the series and provide an excellent introduction for the uninitiated who want to know why Cowboy Bebop is so popular on both sides of the Pacific. (Rated R: violence, brief nudity, minor profanity, tobacco use) --Charles Solomon
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| Customer Reviews: Read 226 more reviews...
 excellent December 29, 2008
Tyler R. Sherman (winthrop maine)
this is a great movie with all the traditional voices and the feel of the original series. enjoyable, action packed, all around good hour and a half of my life.
Action September 29, 2008
Fred Delgadillo
This movie its great its in action movie but in a cartoon version ,trust me its great.
Bebop a lula August 17, 2008
Terrence Aybar (New York City)
Pretty decent treatment of a really well done anime film. The Cowboy Bebop series is legendary in its stature among anime fans and rightfully so. With top notch animation, characters that you grow to genuinely love and an amazing soundtrack by the frighteningly gifted Yoko Kanno, the series and the film are both instant classics.
The DVD has great surround sound and clear picture and the menus make good use of Kanno's ecelectic score. There are some interesting featurettes here that focus on the characters and the show in general and what makes it all so appealing. As for the film itself, I thought it fit well in the series overall and save for what felt sort of like an abrupt ending, I highly enjoyed it.
Recommended.
Nice Addition to the Best Anime Series August 13, 2008
I. Raudenbush
The movie is highly enjoyable, and I would recommend it to any fan of the series. My only real complaint would be Spike seeming to like Electra Ovilo in a romantic way, which goes against Spikes longing for Julia of the series. But ignoring that it's very good.
Not just a cartoon, a new genre itself June 9, 2008
Alwin (San Diego County, CA, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A spacecraft making a crash landing on a highway bridge, a taxi screeching to a stop and the pilot jumping out to say, "Yo, taxi!" symbolizes the situation humor in Cowboy Bebop. This movie, "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" (as titled in Japan) is set between episodes 22 and 23 of the TV series.
Bebop is the animated tale of 27-year-old Spike Spiegel, a slick Martial Artist and shooting ace estranged from the mafia, and his comrades: Jet Black, a 36-year-old former cop, Faye Valentine, a 23-year-old gambler on the run from her debts, Edward, a 13-year-old girl hacking genius, and Ein, a Welsh Corgi dog that was given above-average intelligence in lab experiments.
The setting of the movie is Mars in the year 2071. Mars, along with the other planets in the solar system, has been terra-formed into an Earth-like planet after a cosmic accident forced a mass emigration from Earth to other planets in the system. Smoking, Jazz and Cup Ramen still exist, while space travel blurs the distinction between living in space and living planet-side.
This ragtag bunch of "cowboys," or bounty hunters, travel the solar system in a spacecraft carrier ship, the Bebop, taking on often near-fatal missions to locate and apprehend dangerous "bounty heads" as they struggle to stay fed and keep their ships in good repair.
The antagonist, a former subject of military experiments which they all seek to find and stop, is bent on the destruction of human life on Mars through a nanovirus plague. A test vaccine made him immune, but also gave him amnesia and dreamlike hallucinations.
In Bebop, story and music are always linked. The movie is named after Bob Dylan's song. Yoko Kanno, a prolific composer of game and anime music, wrote the soundtrack for both the TV series and the movie. The TV series is mostly set to bebop, while the movie takes a rock beat.
Anime, the style of animation that director Watanabe Shinichirou chose for both the TV series and movie, is made up of stylized colorful art, futuristic settings, violence and sex. Some may say this is "just a cartoon," but with the violence, dirty words and bad habits of the characters, this is definitely not a cartoon for kids. For the mature viewer, intelligence put into the script, imagination into the art and virtuosity set to playing the music, transforms that classification into, to borrow a line, "a new genre itself."
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