Review – Final Fantasy

This movie’s claim to fame is that it’s supposed to be the first feature-length computer animation with realistic characters and settings. And though it’s clearly a step in the right direction, it’s probably still going to be awhile before producers are going to be able to get rid of human actors altogether. The character animation is the highlight, but it ranges from some cool, realistic stuff down to stiff, jerky junk that looks like an expensive, sophisticated version of the Thunderbirds puppets. Further, beyond the wow-‘em computer graphics, there’s just about nothing here. The story is as dumb as any other movie based on a video game, made even worse by the oh-so-Japanese tendency to stuff a lot of moony philosophizing into the mix. To top it all off, the plot depends heavily on belief in the Gaia theory, something I thought had fallen by the wayside back in the 1980s. Guess I was wrong. See if desperate