Saint Seiya: Legend of Sanctuary

After watching this movie I am disappointed. A recommendation for different kind of watchers:

• If you are a Saint Seiya anime fan, please spare yourself from a painful time watching this movie.

• If you are not a fan, you might just survive the experience. The movie will just throw random stuff at you consistently during the 93 minutes it lasts.

• If you like cool CG and animation, by all means watch it. Kudos to all the CG and technical staff that participated in the making, their work is simply impressive. If there would have been a script on par with the technical work, this could have been a really good movie.

The producers should be totally ashamed. All beauty and values from the original saga has totally disappeared.

The story is not good but I understand it's hard to concentrate all the Sanctuary story into one movie... But what about those stupid clothes ? WTF !!! All saints are looking so stupid, I couldn't believe what I have seen.

I don't understand how they could buy the Saint Seiya license and how somebody could accept this.

I advise to all fans to don't go to see it and above all to not waste their money for this stupid movie.

So i read some of the other reviews above and people saying this was rush or either saying the movie had no explanation at all is really annoying sometimes. For example if you are not a Saint Seiya fans then the new viewers don't know whats happening, i can see where that is coming from. You have to also compare it to Final Fantasy 7 advent children also. That movie doesn't explain what was also happening much in the story unless you already play the game from PS1. I never owned a PS1 so i never played FF7. Also matter to me was that the movie in FF7 AC was Kadaji saying, "mother". WHO THE HELL IS THIS MOTHER! I'm new to Final fantasy as people are new to Saint Seiya. This is a must watch movie for Saint Seiya fans!

I can't tell you how much I love the visual quality of this film, the armor is beautiful and well detailed, the characters have well-developed and lovingly detailed visual characteristics, fabulous CGI.

One point that leaves a lot to be desired is the script, it is really weak and disjointed, it has many unnecessary scenes that could have been relevant moments and made better sense, for example the stance of the Knight of Cancer, it took all the refinement of cruelty of his real nature for a comedian. The final battle was extremely fast-paced and lacked detail. If they had left all the flaws in the script and invested in the quality of the final battle and its complexity, the end result would certainly not have been negative. It's important to note that the film is not a replica of the manga, it's a new experiment and shouldn't be taken as a faithful adaptation, but even so it could have been better developed, as there were a lot of holes in the script that didn't narrate much but rather confused.

In short, it's a good movie for those looking for great visual effects, but for those expecting a well-written script or a faithful adaptation of the original work, it's a bad product, and 90 minutes isn't enough to bring out the complexity of the Sanctuary Saga.

I grew up watching saint seiya and I have always been a big fan of the TV show, but I have always hated the saint seiya movies in the past. The only thing I remember from the old saint seiya movies is the long long scenes of the bronze saints getting beat up much like the fillers in Dragon Ball Z when goku and others would scream for a whole episode while transforming to the next super saiyan stage.

Back to the movie, all the designs and small details(Sceneries, Architectures, Armours and the fight moves) in the animation were beautiful and very well thought out. People were right that there weren't much character "development" since its a 90 minutes movie, but the actions and dialogues did a very effective job of showing what each character was about. It is basically the same old straight forward but effective cartoon plot which I expected going in, so I have no idea why so many reviewers are complaining about it.

Every little detail might not be true to the original TV series, but the whole movie was very entertaining and the details well well thought out if you pay attention. So, if you are not a super hardcore saint seiya fan and are very much into well done animated film then you should probably give this a watch.