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This week marked the release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children in Japan. Thanks to the Internet, my friend Pam, and English subtitles, my friends and I were able to watch it at school yesterday – way before anyone else we knew saw it. It meant that everyone at the Table (those who were able to catch it, anyway) missed their noontime classes, but I think it was worth the cut. We all needed a break from schoolwork, anyhow.

Well. What can I say? I have mixed feelings about the movie. On the one hand, the FF7 fangirl in me is still jumping around like a giddy child and screaming that Advent Children was SO FUCKING AWESOME. The first ten minutes of the movie was spent alternately shrieking and trying to pick my jaw off the floor. To describe the animation as wonderful, impressive, detailed, and beautiful would just not be enough to let someone else know how fantastic it was–it is something that has to be experienced. From the wonderful animation, everything else I loved about the movie follows. The fight scenes – and there were a lot of them, much to the delight of the Igorot headhunter in me – were fast-paced, breathtaking, and literally left me hanging off the edge of my seat. So much explodey action! Although I must admit that some of the events were a tad unrealistic (Cloud gets shot point blank but he only gets a scratch – what the fuck was that?), those still have to be the best fight scenes I have ever seen.

(begin fangirl moment here)

Oh, and can I just say that everyone in the movie was SO FUCKING HOT!?!??!! All your favorite characters from the Final Fantasy 7 game are computer-generated into these gorgeous, almost-subhuman creatures. It made me want to weep, and potentially become a lesbian if I were single and girls in real life were as hot as Tifa and Aeris (and not at all bitchy and backstabbing). I mean, look.

Are they not the hottest girls you have ever laid your eyes on? Oh, and if you thought Vincent Valentine in the game was cool, check this out.

Even my male friends found him rapeable. (Okay fine, male friend who happens to be bisexual.)

(end fangirl moment here)

But delicious eye candy and explodey action aside, I got around to thinking about Advent Children and I realized that without the hot people and the fight scenes, I wouldn’t have liked it at all. I think that Advent Children was made to please the fans of FF7 who couldn’t get enough of the game; if you have not at least played the game, you won’t be able to appreciate the movie (unless you’re just watching it for the girls). The plot takes off two years after the game ends and really, the main point is that Cloud is still feeling a lot of wangst over Aeris’ death and the whole story is geared towards him trying to get over it. But while watching Advent Children, whatever plot goes flying out the window because you’re too busy drooling over the women and the cinematics to care. I mean, I didn’t even notice until way after the movie that story-wise, Advent Children is very lacking.

But because I had such a great time watching it, I will give the movie a rating of 4/5. I think that the animation more than makes up for the lack of any real plot. But this is coming from a fan who loves seeing things explode and was utterly delighted at seeing the game’s characters in perfect, computer-generated human form.

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