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Like Rob said, we saw it. I didn't enjoy it as much as he did. Some of the scenes were good (and some just hilarious) but for the better part of the time, Phoebe and I would look at each other and whisper, "This movie is so damn long."

And whenever I say that, that means that the movie hasn't really kept me interested. Yeah, the effects were cool (I actually didn't mind the cartoonish landscape and what not. I thought I wouldn't like it, but it matched well with the tone of the movie) and some of the characters were good (love X). But it seemed like some of the scenes were forced, and some were just random.

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Throughout the movie, I was waiting for Speed and Sparky to hold a conversation with one another (and it didn't happen) and then at the end, the two of them embraced one another and got all emotional. If I were someone who had never watched the anime, I wouldn't have understood wtf that was about.

It may have been a good adaptation, but as a movie, there were a few things that I can point out that didn't make it so great. Character development could have been better for some of the characters, of course the campiness (I know it was like that in the anime, but critics are critics, and I didn't like that about the anime anyway), you couldn't take it seriously (laughed at dramatic moments), and at some points, the special effects disorientated me to where I didn't know what I was looking at.

2.5/5 for me.