Street Fighter Alpha - The Movie [DVD]

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Great Manga film.

Street Fighter Alpha is one of those bad anime adaptions of a video game and it really shows when you have so many characters and yet most of them don't appear and those who do appear just act nothing like their video game counterparts. The story is rather confusing at the start but after you watch it you'll understand it, though only barely as it doesn't just seem like something from Street fighter.Mad doctor trying to create the ultimate fighter through sucking the life force out of the best fighters leaving husks that walk around and stare at flowers just screams "Street Fighter". There are other plot points running through this two-part anime but the focus should have been on them rather than this silly story. The extras on this release are really good as it interviews all the Japanese Cast which were ported over from the Japanese release, but I would rather have an Interview with the English dub cast but sadly they were just too lazy.Specs:4:3 FullscreenEnglish 2.0 Stereo & 5.1 AudioJapanese 2.0 StereoExtras:Eleven interviews with Japanese voice actors and director - 30 minsMaking of Feature - 5 minsOriginal Japanese creditsTrailerManga UK TrailersWeblinks

A great manga

I think that this film is a stunning FILM I love it to death and the fightes are fast like dragon ball z uuhh well not disappearing, you know what I meen. Well this film has a nice story board and nice amount of blood and beautiful drawings and STUNNING sceneries but I love this manga film and its in my TOP ten films

The other reviews all seem a little harsh to me. First of all, it was always billed as a prequel to Street Fighter 2, and second of all, it was never going to be as good. Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li are the main characters, as always, with Akuma and Sakura playing secondary characters. The story does seem a little out of place, but there still is more story than Street Fighter 2 (which, good as it was, was little more than a series of fights). I thought that the "Ryu has a long lost brother" soryline wasn't quite what Street Fighter should be about and it didn't really sit well with me. I also didn't really like the character of Shun, but he did serve to forward Ryu's story concerning the dark hadou, so it can be forgiven. Other characters from the alpha series do appear, including Birdie, Adon, Rolento, Sodom, Guy, Dan and welcome returns from Zangief, Dhalsim and (surprisingly) Vega. No one should've expected to see Guile, Blanka and co. from the beginning. Watch out for a cameo from the Pocket Fighter versions of Chun-Li and Ibuki (a Street Fighter III character) as well. The animation is good, and the fights all look incredible. Particulalry good is the scene between Ryu and Akuma followed by a Ryu vs Ken battle. Overall, Street Fighter Alpha is a good film, and I look forward to the day that they make an anime film based on Street Fighter 3. Fans of the games will enjoy this, and so should fans of the Street Fighter 2 animated film, as long as they don't exoect it to be in any way similar or quite as good.

The animation is nice, but the story is pretty boring, especially all the "my big brother" nonsense with Ryu.

Don't listen to them obvious anime newbies who have given this movie a bad review. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. The storyline may not be true to the games but this just shows that the production team can come up with something original. The animation is excellent. The dubbing is on par. And the DVD has a few good extras to boot as well. If you are a fan of Street Fighter 2 you should go out and buy this now. If you are a fan of any sort of anime you should buy this now. You might just enjoy it.