So we can now post blogs, awesome, I shall use this for reviews and rants maybe...I'm not fond of writing too much. :P

Anyway, to start off, I watched Street Fighter Alpha: Generations, though I'm hard pressed to call it a movie as it's just under 45 minutes long.



Now, if you don't know, I hate this movie, now normally with bad movies, or any movie, the memories can often be worse than the experience itself. Sometimes this is out of logic, like Transformers 2007, Spiderman 3, Super Mario Bros even, I often go back and find something to like or make up for the short comings, like Prime being a badass, Spidey being the closest to his comic book personality of all the movies, or finding all the little references in the Mario movie. Batman was an exception in that it was still a good movie, just overshadowed by Batman Begins like nothing else. Generations is another exception, however, I remember hating it for many problems, but I seemed to have made up redeeming features...none of which are there.



Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie is a fan's dream come real, slick animation, great art, fighting that contains both realism and fantasy, and great characterization of the lead characters, and the animated appearance of entire cast of 17 Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo characters. Separate from Street Fighter, it probably wouldn't be considered good other than that it is very well made.



Street Fighter Alpha is decent, it's got very good animation, consistent art which is also very good, a deeper story, however the fight scenes were mostly close ups of facial expressions, the badguy is a completely new character, and the story. while deeper, is confusing and puts it into naive fans' minds that Akuma is Ryu's father...it also had a decent number of character cameos, including Guy and Sodom.



Now, lets start off...this film features 9 characters in total, only four of which are playable Street Fighter characters, Ryu, Ken, Akuma/Gouki, and Sakura, and to those who don't know, these are the infamous shotoclones, so diversity is out. The new characters are Fuka, who's a woman about Ryu's age, and her grandfather, Old Man, who I'll get to. The story is just bizarre, all setting up for the fight between Ryu and Akuma, which is talked over anyway, and also to further push the idea that Akuma is Ryu's father. I'll simplify things for you.



Ryu: He's in it to fight Akuma.

Akuma: He's in it to fight Ryu.

Sakura: Is in it to get beaten up by Ryu.

Ken: Is in it to be beaten up by Old Man.

Fuka: Is in it to display a vague romantic interest in Ryu, and be as dull as a bit of wood.

Old Man: Is in it to explain everything.



What's more annoying is that they try to explain Ryu and Ken's fighting style as something ancient and almost tribal, where as the games explain that Goutetsu created the style, the Hadou, and the Dark Hadou, and taught the style to his two sons Akuma and Gouken...I don't see what's wrong with the games' take. What's even worse is that they explain this by having ancient ghosts popping up for no reason to reenact the whole origin!



Yeah...suddenly Jean Claude Van Dam seems much more forgivable.



Then there's the art and animation, they're very, very poor. The animation is very choppy and the art is very messy, the characters look more like cosplayers than the real deal, except Akuma, who looks more like The Thing from Fantastic Four with a wig at times. Basically it looks nothing like classic Street Fighter art.



Proportions seem to vary like they're made of jelly, everything looks ugly, badly drawn, low budget crap. Considering how incredible Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie was in it's day, and Alpha's quality being very good if not great, this is like they've tried to be awful.



I can't stand the special effects either, they just don't blend well with the animation. That said, the fight scenes are okay-ish...they're nothing special, and you'll get better out of Dragon Ball's early episodes.



And then we have the voice acting and music...I only remember one real bit of music, and that's the drum and base stuff at the end...nothing memorable either, it just seems slapped in which is why is leave any impression. The VA's were down right crap, all the previous VA's have been replaced and the new guys sound like they're from Manga Entertainments really early work...I'm talking stuff that makes SEGA's VAs more appreciative. I think Sakura had the best VA, only because I found her the least annoying.



And there we go...Street Fighter's worst movie....at least the live action movie is comically bad, and Raul Julia was awesome.

If you like this movie, I'd like to know why, however you can't change my opinion of it.