Saturday, February 4, 2012

Anime Movie Review: Fullmetal Alchemist : The Sacred Star of Milos


The Funimation dub of the second Fullmetal Alchemist movie premiered at select theaters across the United States during this last week, and some of my friends and I were lucky enough to go see it. Lemme start off by saying, the original Fullmetal Alchemist animated series was my favorite anime of all time. It had the perfect mix of high quality animation, a great soundtrack, interesting characters, a really enthralling story, and just an overall feeling of awesomeness that kept you standing on your toes at the end of every episode.

So needless too say, when it was announced that this movie would be coming to theaters in the US, I was very excited. However, I also kept in mind the movie was basically filler and had nothing to do with the story whatsoever. But that's okay. If it did have to do with the story, it probably would have been based off of Brotherhood, the second series, which, in my opinion, comma comma comma, was not quite as good as the first one.

But anyway, the movie was good. The animation was on par with the original series, if not improved some. The music... nothing too memorable, but I don't recall hearing any misplaced tracks. Since this is a review of the dub, I will also say that Vic Mignogna did an excellent job as Edward Elric, as usual, and the rest of the casting was pretty good as well.

As for the story... here's the tricky part. I thought it was good, but a lot of things probably could have been done a little better. It's about the Elric brothers venturing to a location previously unmentioned in the FMA world and meeting a girl named Julia who lives in an oppressed village that lives in the waste of those who live above them in a large and prosperous city.


In attempt to take back the city that was rightfully theirs, Julia wants to obtain the star of milos, a stone said to have enough power to take out an entire army. Sound familiar FMA fans? Yep. It's the philosopher's stone. So Ed once again has to give his famous lecture on why it's so bad to use something that is created at the cost of human lives. The plot may seem a little convoluted, and it can be at times, but overall I thought it was pretty entertaining. I give Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos an 8/10.



Oh, also Julia had a brother who was pretty important. That's probably worth mentioning.

15 comments:

  1. Looks cool. Will see it when I can. And for the record lol I preferred Brotherhood :) It seemed darker. And I read it was closer to the manga in the 2nd half.

    Not to say I didnt like the other one. Just found Brotherhood better.

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    1. Really? I kinda thought the first series was darker. But maybe more in the literal sense. It seemed like it was always rainy or night time, lol.

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    2. Really really? I found that mostly everything looked all golden and stuff lol

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  2. Am I weird? I only liked the manga, I don't know for what reason, because I usually love the anime version of some manga more, but this time it seemed different.

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  3. Never seen this one either, but just from looking at it, it looks to be a good one, added to my never ending list..haha

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  4. A friend of mine likes this very much.

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  5. The aspect of the plot about the girl Julia living in the waste of a prosperous city really intrigues me. I really want to see it.

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  6. I've never seen the anime much, but I used to read the FMA manga all the time.

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  7. Better a good filler than a poor movie....

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  8. I really want to see this in the theater. One of my faves as far as series goes

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