Lady Death - The Motion Picture
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Actor: Christine M. Auten, Dwight Clark, Greg Ayres, Laura Butcher, Shelley Carlene-BlackBrand: ADV Films
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Section 23
DVD Reviews of Lady Death - The Motion Picture
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.
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