Lady Death - The Motion Picture
by Andy Orjuela
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Actor: Christine M. Auten, Dwight Clark, Greg Ayres, Laura Butcher, Shelley Carlene-BlackDirector: Andy Orjuela
Brand: ADV Films
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Japanese (Original Language); English (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Adv Films
DVD Reviews of Lady Death - The Motion Picture
DVD Review: Great!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are into the Lady Death scene or others like it you will love this movie.DVD Review: Not the Lady Death I remember...
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm a pretty big Lady Death fan I suppose. I have all the comic books (including most variant covers) and I have most of the comics published by Chaos! Comics in general. I didn't go as overboard as some people, where they own all the other products produced aside from comics, but I really liked a lot of the characters they put into comics. I got into Lady Death when I was in junior high; naturally my motives weren't completely intellectually driven, as you should be able to tell from the cover of this movie. As I got older I still appreciated the character and comics for what they were, but I certainly wasn't expecting anything profound at this point, nor was I when I picked up this movie. I was pretty excited at first because I thought this story would be a great animated movie. I was looking forward to seeing "The Reckoning" in film format... that's definitely not what us fans got.
Unfortunately if you're a fan of this comic then this does not recount the tale like you read in the comics. This feels way more haphazardly thrown together and really doesn't do the original writing justice. Frankly, I don't exactly know what happened. What I do know is that Chaos! Comics ended up going bankrupt during this time. They actually filed for a chapter that requires you to sell off all assets, not the one where you get government protection to keep your business going, no, everything had to go. However, Brian Pulido did manage to hold onto his rights of the Lady Death character and she now appears with him under Avatar Press. During this fiasco this motion picture was being made, and I suspect that because everything else was tied up in legal issues he couldn't use the original story line from "The Reckoning". Maybe he no longer held that copyright. I think Pulido wanted to give his fans a film somewhat in the spirit of Lady Death at least, but his original story line was so much better than what we got here. I know the man is a film major and really into film in general, but I really think this could have been done a little bit better. Personally rather than recounting the origins of Lady Death I think maybe he should have written a whole different tale considering everything else was tied up, but maybe he couldn't? I really don't know.
In the end we have a film that is very loosely based on the original "The Reckoning" story line, but with a way more disjointed feel. Like Lady Death ends up in Hell for totally different reasons, also her father is a vastly different person as well. Cremator's role isn't explained very well at all, but they probably weren't allowed to use his original concept. Not to mention whoever did the voice acting for Cremator was not a good fit at all, in my opinion. However, I thought Lady Death's voice actor was suitable, so for that I was glad. Even Purgatori's character was all wrong in this and she's my favorite Pulido character! I don't know what more to say about this because I don't want to give too much away, because it doesn't make a lot of sense anyway and people will just get confused. But for example, Lady Death ends up fighting all these demon lords that aren't even in the comics, never mind the fact they have nothing to do with her rise to power in Hell story line, but yet they're worked in? Lady Death's realization of her powers in this is so sudden and haphazard, that it doesn't show that she was in Hell for a while before she really started figuring out how things work there in the original concept.
Overall the animation is on par with cartoons you'd watch in the early 1990's. I know this will seem quite poor for a 2004 release, but you have to remember the creators and artists are into nostalgia. It's really no different than the art we saw in the original comic book series back in 1994. I can see why people would complain about the animation in light of today's work if they never read this comic from 1994. The most impressive thing about this movie was the soundtrack, which I thought was excellently powerful. However, I really can't see many people buying into this film, fans of Lady Death and anyone else for that matter. I can see what Pulido was trying to do, but I really don't think it worked overall. I mean, I don't remember "real" Death showing up at all in "The Reckoning" and then her stealing his powers? Basically she realized desire is power and then made the eternal graveyard in the comics. That didn't really happen at all here... ah well, if it comes to take it or leave it, I'm leaving it.
DVD Review: Dated underachiever
Summary: 3 Stars
If you're a Lady death fan then this is a fairly straight animation of the Chaos comics character, there are a few variations to the storyline, which outlines the transformation of Hope the na?ve girl to Lady Death Queen of hell, but nothing drastic. The style of the characters is also not that far removed from the graphic comic originals, though Lady Death herself is perhaps too much of a goody two shoes to jel with fan expectations. But despite this keeping faith with the source material it's not particularly good, in the extras the production team blather on about the wonders that new technology have brought to the film animation scene, but unfortunately Lady Death itself is a very poor illustration of this technology. Ten years ago and we'd have thought it a competent if uninspiring anim?, but when you compare it with its contemporaries, Ghost in the Shell 2, Metropolis, Appleseed and Sky Blue which are all a qualitative quantum leap ahead of this and you'll see how low budget and disappointing it looks.
Now I happen to think Lady Death is worthy of a sequel, but it needs to be much better than this. The world of animation moved on and somehow Sunmin studios missed it, producing something a decade out of date before it hit the screen. They make much of having done Batman the animated series and that appears to be about their level, when the chance came to step up to the plate and do a movie, they fluffed it.
DVD Review: Ughhh
Summary: 1 Stars
I just wanted to add to everyone else, and say that this movie sucked if your a fan of the comic or just someone who like more adult animation please skip this movie. The animation is terrible, and the voice acting is craptastic. When the devil is speaking you cant even hear what he is saying. The audio on his voice is way lower then the rest of the cast. The frame rate on the animation is so pore that sometimes the characters look like they are moving in slow motion. I am a fan of the comic and I can say that this movie diserves a 1 out of 5. DVD Review: Deceiving Packaging for a poor film
Summary: 1 Stars
I just finished watching this movie and I can honestly say I am truly dissapointed. I am not very fussy with animation as I am a big fan of the genre but I highly doubt this will remain in my collection. The cover art is soooooo good you just can't wait to get home and watch it but the animation is actually very poor (for a motion picture) and lacks that detail and shading you enjoy in most anime's. It is of the quality of your saturday morning cartoons (I have seen some with better). I also found a lot of the action sequences very repetitive. The story moves too fast and you feel no connection with any of the characters introduced. This is a real shame as I can see potential in these characters.
In regard to the dvd the sound and picture quality are fine and it has a couple of extra's.
In conclusion don't waste your money unless it's super cheap!! You will enjoy Vampire Hunter D or the short film Blood much much more than this.
Description of Lady Death - The Motion Picture
Set in 15th Century Sweden, Hope, the beautiful daughter of Matthias-believed to be a skilled mercenary, but who in actuality is Lucifer, the Lord of Lies-is accused of being the devil's consort following a hellish incident witnessed by local villagers. Ultimately, Hope is sentenced by the town priest to be burned at the stake. Writhing in pain and unable to think clearly, she accepts Lucifer's offer of life in Hell-presented by the malevolent Pagan-over a hideously painful death. Lucifer's grand plan to corrupt a soul of pure innocence meets unanticipated resistance, as Hope rejects Lucifer's scheme and eventually, transformed into the powerful warrior LADY DEATH, challenges the Lord of Lies for control of Hell itself. A powerful story of innocence lost, savage betrayal and glorious rebirth.Based on the comic book series by Brian Pulido, Lady Death exemplifies the ongoing cross-pollination between anime and the American film industry. Produced by Houston-based ADV Films, Lady Death was animated overseas in a style that suggests a cross between Wicked City and a Boris Vallejo illustration. Hope, an innocent girl in medieval Sweden, discovers her father is Lucifer in disguise. She prays to him while being burned at the stake, then leads a revolt against him in the afterlife. Aided by Cremator, the former chief armorer of Hell, Hope takes the name Lady Death and crams her pneumatic figure into a miniscule bikini and thigh-high boots. The plot is a hopeless muddle and the dialogue unintentionally hilarious: "In all my days in Hell... I have never met a soul like you." A guilty pleasure for hormonal adolescent males, Lady Death will quickly alienate other viewers. (Rated age 17 and older: graphic violence, violence against women, grotesque imagery) --Charles Solomon
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