Origin - Spirits of the Past: The Movie [DVD]

Origin: Spirits of the Past is a movie that will delight you and disappoint you. 300 years ago genetic engineering to develop plants that could survive harsh conditions led to disaster: the plants gained consciousness, destroyed the Moon, and invaded the Earth. Today the remnants of mankind struggle to survive amidst the ruins of their civilization, either in uneasy cooperation with the sentient forest or in total opposition to it. But all that begins to change upon the day that the boy, Agito, finds and accidentally awakens the girl, Toola, a survivor of the previous world who unknowingly carries the power to restore the world… or destroy it.Origin is a staggeringly beautiful movie; its look and premise will definitely remind you of  Laputa: Castle in the Sky  and, especially, of  Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind . Even the somewhat noticeable 3D animation works, and unlike  Children Who Chase Lost Voices , the story of Origin actually makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, a little too perfect.There is a telling moment in the live action feature about the making of the movie, in which they mention that when they first started laying out the story, it ran to five hours, which they then had to crunch down to 90 minutes, and that’s exactly what it feels like: the highlight movie of a never done TV series. There are way too many scenes, especially towards the climax, that feel shortened or hurried: Toola’s side switching, the Ragna Army’s side switching, the whole E.S.T.O.C. story, the climax of the fight between Agito and the bad guy, etc. Even the central bad guy seems affected. On the one hand he offers a reasonable sounding argument on the surface, at the beginning; on the other hand the minute Toola is out of earshot he orders Agito’s execution. All in all it has an intriguing premise, some amazing concepts, and a likable central couple you will really get a feel for, but it probably would have worked a lot better as a 12 or 13 episode TV series than as a 90 minute movie.

this movie is everything youd expect with a little humbleness on the side

This movie was a 10/10 experience, I see people writing about how a lot of things arn't explained. But there is literally many parts of the movie that explain mostly everything you'd want to know lol.But what makes this 10/10, was my boy john. Dude only had 3 scenes, literally punching a flying molten rock like it was nothing. Would watch again, just for john.

Own, Online Viewing, or EvadeThis movie is worth Owning.Overall Rating 4/5That title comes from the trailer. I added the question marks though. The movie is basically about a guy becoming a super plant man to save his friend.Something like that… Don’t dig too deep here, you won’t find much. It’s a post apocalypse movie with people at odds with sentient plants. How did it all happen, what’s next, what is this super plant man guy? You’ll learn some of this maybe. It’s a pretty good action movie. Sometimes making sense isn’t completely necessary…Theme Songs 4/5The movie had solid opening and ending songs. They fit the movie very well.Ending 4/5NO spoilers, the ending was…. pretty good. The movie wasn’t as complicated as it seems initially.

You can read the blurb/summation of the story. This is a beautifully animated, and well told story. The story line while seemingly simple is wonderfully complex. It ranks, as far as I'm concerned, right up there with GRAVE OF THE FREFLIES. I will as the story is not as down as GRAVE the story and its moral are equally important. The sound track is OK there are segments where it really not needed, and some places a little heavy handed as well as being way to western. Would I recommend this story, yes definitely. While this film is excellent, because of the musical score And it almost mis-matched score, it does not quiet make it to the epic status of GRAVE or AKIRA. However, the animation definitely belongs up there. Yes, I would recommend view and having it in ones collection.

Visually this movie was amazing. Music and voice acting were also top notch(For anyone keeping score, I viewed this product in japanese with subs, to quote an old friend, "Bad Japanese voice overs are better than bad english voice overs because with the japanese voice over you don't understand just how bad it really is")The story, however, was entertaining, but there are a couple of points where everything grinds to a halt and takes awhile to pick the speed back up.Overall I would recommend this movie to most anime fans. Not quite on the same level as Steamboy as far as entertainment value goes, but if you can look past a couple of slow points in the story line, the visual and audible parts of this movie will blow you away.

Spirits of the Past is a very environmentally themed anime. Although I don't consider myself as being someone well-versed in anime, compared to other titles this one is very well animated with well-done CGI as well. The action scenes and fights are very detailed and you can tell that much work and attention to detail were put into them. As for the story... Well, I felt like it was kind of rushed as not much of the past events were revealed nor were the characters' lives explored much. Coolness factors? Plenty, including ***possible spoilers***: giant walking artillery robots, stasis pods, a 'living forest', forest-enhanced fighting capabilities (which reminded me of Naruto when he's in Sage mode), and a giant moving volcano.

As much as I want to love this film, I can not bring myself to flaunt it. As many others before me, I was misled by the trailer (epic song with the greatest preview editing of the most epic of the film's scenes) and awaited something spectacular. Needless to say, I was disappointed. The characters are bland: typical shounen boy and evil mastermind, no variant there. The male protagonist, once awakened to his power, seems to have his vocabulary reduced to the simple and annoying name of the girl protagonist, the only character sporting a kind of interesting duality between her desires and the greater good of mankind. The story's premise itself was simple enough, though the preview made a bedazzling presentation of it, incorporating original elements that would probably have made the film a fabulous one had they been more exploited.On the plus side: the trailer's song WAS really good.

Inhalt: Durch fehlgeschlagene Genmanipulationen wurde die Umwelt der Erde verwüstet. Die Menschen flüchteten in den Tiefschlaf. 300 Jahre später befinden sich die Menschen im Kampf mit „dem Wald“ oder sind von ihm abhängig. Der Junge Agito betritt eines Tages einen verbotenen Bereich in dem sich eine leuchtende Maschine befindet. In dieser schläft das Mädchen Toola seit nun fast 300 Jahren. Toola hat eine Mission zu erfüllen, nämlich die Zivilisation wiederherzustellen. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, schließt sie sich mit den finsteren Shunack zusammen, der mit seinen Truppen gegen den Wald kämpft. Bald wird aber klar das Shunack seine eigenen Pläne verfolgt. Um Toola zu retten geht Agito einen Bund mit dem Wald ein und erhält so verbotene Kräfte…Für Animefreunde eine gute Anschaffung. Intressantes Thema. Aktuell - immer wieder. Kann ich nur empfehlen.

Ich habe mir "Origin - Spirits of the Past" besorgt, weil ich irgendwie alleine aufgrund der positiven Rezensionen und auch aufgrund des Trailersinteressiert war. Am Anfang war ich kurzzeitig ein wenig verwirrt, da man wieder mal in eine Story hineingeworfen wurde ohne große Erklärungen. Doch die Verwirrung wich der tollen Animation und wunderbaren Musik. Ich muss zugeben, dass ich selten einen Film so gut animiert gesehen habe, klasse.Die Story zieht sich am Anfang etwas in die Länge und zum Ende rennt sie nur noch. Leider wurde die mittlere Geschwindigkeit nicht gefunden.Auch sehr positiv ist die Synchronisation, welche diesmal wirklich gelungen ist...also keine Angst auch mal auf Deutsch zu gucken.Die Verpackung war auch nett, schöne warme Farben, das Cover schaut wunderbar aus und die Extra-DVD war eine nette Sache. Alles in allem stelle ich mir diesen Anime sehr sehr gerne zu meiner Animesammlung und Figuren.

Die Art wie der Film gezeichnet wurde erinnert sehr stark an "Prinzessin Mononoke"! "Origin" ist wirklich ein verzaubernder Film der zwar weniger Fanstasy als mehr scifi ist, allerdings trotzdem Filmen wie "Das Schloss im Himmel" und "Nausicaä" in nichts nachsteht. Ich finde es sehr schade und vor allem auch verwunderlich das es nur 3,5 sterne auf diesen Film gab, weshalb ich ihn mir fast nich gekauft hätte wäre da nicht der Trailer gewesen!Ich finde ein muss für Fans!

Wunderschöner Film, auch wenn ich leider sagen muss, dass ich ihn nicht GANZ so gut gezeichnet finde wie die Ghibli Filme und ich finde es gibt zu viele Computeranimierte Stellen, welche sich ein bisschen abheben.Aber die wunderschöne Story und allgemein doch sehr gute Grafik und schöne Bilder lassen für mich nur 5 Sterne zu!Jeder dem Mononoke, oder andere Animes mit dem Thema "Mensch und Wald" mochte, wird hier sehr auf seine kosten kommen, Versprochen ^^