Trigun: Badlands Rumble

Trigun Badlands Rumble is a very good movie, with some nice nostalgia for Trigun fans.

It's in the style of the first half of the series, Vash wandering around getting into trouble and helping people out. He runs into our cool heroine of the movie, Amelia, and she's quite likable. Of course, Meryl, Millie, and Wolfwood are in the house as well.

The story here is not black and white with good guys and bad guys, it's interesting in that the villains of this movie aren't all that evil, and overall the movie has a more laid-back feel than you might expect.

One cool aspect is how they incorporate Vash's past and how old he is, by tying in a flashback from 20 years prior into the current events. We have some nice fun dialogue, great slapstick humor, a crazy bar brawl, lots of action, and a bit of drama to give it some weight. The animation is the most flawless aspect of the movie, the art is detailed and it's lushly done. There's a lot of great detail, and all the wacky background characters have a lot of care put into them.

Overall, though the plot takes a couple clever turns, the movie is just a nicely done, very straightforward light action romp, done well. I enjoyed the ending especially, which had a nice way of commenting on Vash's ideals. And of course, this movie is even better for letting us hang out with those classic Trigun characters for another hour and a half. Check it out!

I saw this about a month after finishing the show, and I realized I should have seen it sooner. Badlands Rumble is one of those few cases where the movie that is based on a show is up there with the show itself in quality. The animation keeps a style similar to the one of the original show, but it is updated to todays standards...and I LOVE IT!

Vash is back, Wolfwood's back, the insurance girls are back...even Kuro- Neko-Sama makes a glorious return! In other words, all the good characters are back, as good as ever. Even the new characters like Gasback for example are very good.

And thank you Madhouse for bringing back Tsuneo Imahori to make the soundtrack! I love the original soundtrack so much and was really happy to see his name in the credits again. No one makes Trigun music better than Imahori-Sama, no one!

Trigun: Badlands Rumble is *beep* awesome and feels a lot like one of those episodes that never made it into the show, based on the story and feeling. I just love this movie!

This film doesn't follow the Anime at all.

This film is in no way a movie for the Anime watchers. This is specifically for the Manga readers. I'm not sure why they would review something that someone would think would apply to the Anime when they admit they've never even watched it.

Either way. The movie is stand alone. A neat tidying bit that the director said would only come out in sub edition because of the Mangas success. If you're a Trigun fan, you'll love it. If you've never read the Mangas you'll be a bit confused but non the less enjoy it, and that's why it's a 6 from me. I only wish there are/were more stories like this that actually did tie in with the Anime.

I sincerely don't get what was the point of this thing except making a quick ca$hgrab on a beloved anime series ten years after its completition. The story has no particular appeal and it's EXTREMELY boring, the characters are all recycled from the 90's series (particularly the main villain is simply another spin on Brilliant Dynamites Neon, and with that I mean he is a TOTAL CLONE minus some elements in the chara), Vash acts completely off in comparison to how he acted in the main series (mind you, the best thing to come out of the Trigun Franchise hands down, Yasuhiro Nightow can eat $hit), the new female character is irritating and her modus operandi is beyond stupid, the "big twist" is highly predictable from half the movie on and it doesn't make any sense considering what the characters say, the humourous part which was genuinely fun in the 90's series (I am ok with both this one and the latter, more serious approach) is absolutely and totally non-humorous, there's nothing particularly great about this product except maybe the technical element...even if, in reality, some of the scenes with an extensive use of CGI in looked really ugly, with slow frames that looked like they were taken from a Windows XP screensaver and that have aged worse than the animation in older series like Attakku No.1 from FRIGGIN' 1969! At the end of the day, the only positive thing I can say about this thing is that the instinct that prevented me from watching this crap for 13 years even with my love for the original series was absolutely on the point, and the lesson has been learned. Watch and enjoy the original 90's series (again, the BEST to come out of the entire Trigun IP, the manga is beyond horrible and I have the feeling it is the reason why this was a failure to begin with, there's the direct hand from hacky Yasuhiro Nightow somewhere in here) and forget this thing was ever produced in the first place.

Edit: apparently this was written by the same person who wrote the terrible Kamen Rider OOO and Kamen Rider Ryuki series and the unwatchable Sailor Moon Live Action. Bad writers doing bad stuff, what a surprise!

I just saw the movie, and I have to say it was quite an experience, it brought back fond memories of one of the best Animes I've ever seen, Trigun is truly an epic. The animation was top notch, fighting sequences were great too, the story was predictable but that wasn't a bad thing. You really have to thank the creators for their great vision, Vash the Stampede's character is pure genius, he's the hero that everybody loves and respects, and you'll find this apparent in both the TV series and movie. Kudos to everyone who worked on this, hopefully a dub will come along soon. A must watch to all the Trigun fans.