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A Wind Named Amnesia

A Wind Named Amnesia

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: December_me
Review: A truly wonderfull and emotionally deep movie, even if the animation is slightly antiquidated. The ideas and questions it presents can be a bit deep to someone who still thinks Anime are just silly cartoons, but movies like this should quickly dispell that.
It's not one for war and violence buffs, and some of the timeing seemed a little off for some sound-effecets in the movie, but if your looking for something to ponder on a long day, or you have a friend who always complains about not ever having anything interesting to talk about... just watch this wonderfull tale and enjoy.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: December_me
Review: A truly wonderfull and emotionally deep movie, even if the animation is slightly antiquidated. The ideas and questions it presents can be a bit deep to someone who still thinks Anime are just silly cartoons, but movies like this should quickly dispell that.
It's not one for war and violence buffs, and some of the timeing seemed a little off for some sound-effecets in the movie, but if your looking for something to ponder on a long day, or you have a friend who always complains about not ever having anything interesting to talk about... just watch this wonderfull tale and enjoy.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: it was a nice break from all the blood and gore.
Review: after watching all the guts being ripped out or heads being cut off its nice to sit back and enjoy a movie that makes you think and has depth to it

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Good idea, Boring movie.
Review: As many of the other reviews point out, that the concept of everybody losing thier memories is a good one. The sad part is that the story kind of drags on. The only people with memories are the ones that had memories implanted, saved somehow due to cybernetic implants, and one mysterious lady in which she is not all that she appears to be. Although the story kind of slow, it does make you think for a while.

Basically, an alien race was experimenting with Earth. They see how creative we can be with our buildings and machines. The aliens simply took all the memories of man, as our language and knowledge of tools, just to see how we would behave.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A near-great anime
Review: I have seen a lot of anime and this was fairly memorable. It won't become a true favorite or anything but I'm glad I got it. It was enjoyable to the end.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great from begining to end!!!!
Review: I saw this video at a party and loved it! This has the fantasy kind of epic and a sci-fi kind of setting. Ok, the story starts when you see a man being attacked by a machine. A mysterious woman saves him and she says she'll go on his quest along with him. She says she has no idea why (get this) all of humanity has lost all of it's memory (or so she says...hint...). Eventually the two find out what happened to the memories of everyone. The ending is pretty uplifting and you had an idea that it would be something like that. The bottom line is:

Get this movie, you won't regret it!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Good "Thinker" Anime
Review: I will start by stating that when I got this movie I wasn't expecting it to be the greatest, but it was much better than I thought it would be. Still others like Akira and Ghost in the Shell are better, but this one ranks pretty close to them. The story involves two caracters traveling across the United States in an attempt to "re-teach" everyone. Why? A strange wind that they call "amnesia" went across the whole world clearing everyones memory, but not like normal amnesia. This wind took away everything! The ability to speak, to think, and all the other basics. It reduced the whole world to barbaric people. Rather than rely on big guns and explosions, this movie uses a complex and great storyline to keep you entralled. If you like anime that make you think, you'll like this...........

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: how do you rate this over three stars???
Review: I'm pretty sure people who just started watching Jap. anime are WAAAY too facinated with the subculture and overwhelmed by the quality and quantity of animation that are viewd by those who grow up watching Looney Toons, Mickey Mouse, and Transformers.

For those of you (above), anime like "A Wind Named Amnesia" will BLOW u away (like most of reviewers here). But if you grow up watching Japanese animation, you'll notice this movie is just OK, nothing here that will "BLOW YOU AWAY". Animation quality is sub-par along with matching musical score, but the story is bit original- "like it - didn't love it."

For story info: read the ediorial review.

I'll recommend this DVD for those who are soooooooooooooo facinated by Jap. Anime and think everything from Japan is "WOW.. BEST EVER!!! OMG!! SUPERB!!"
for others, its entertaining, original, and worth a look..

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good Anime...but not the best
Review: If you are new to the world of anime, you need to know what animes are good. My personal favorites are Ninja Scroll and Akira. I like them because of their fluid animation, great soundtracks, and twisting plots. These are the factors one should look for while watching an anime. A Wind Named Amnesia is a good anime. It has a good soundtrack and a interesting plot (everyone in the world looses their memories when a wind passes over the earth). The animation was fluid but it wasn't the best. It was no where compared to the marvelous beauty of Akira. Other anime I recommend: Akira (of course), Ninja Scroll, The Ghost in the Shell, Street Fighter II (yeah it was a video game but the animation rocks), and any Dragonball (yeah the show and movies are meant for children but I enjoy them). E-mail me if you have anything you'd like to ask me about.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Not even amnesia can make you forget this...
Review: In this remarkably animated, classic, colorful, brilliantly composed film a world has been swept by the wind of Amnesia. This wind has left everyone's soul lost in the body of a mindless newborn baby. The world in which they once lived is now decayed from the abscence of functional mankind and it up to one man to save it. He will travel around the world searching for life and along his heroic adventure he will encounter many different obstacles he will need to overcome. He can, he will....he has to...save the place that once was Planet Earth.


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