--- product_id: 34131242 title: "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" brand: "hironobu sakaguchi" price: "€ 21.59" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.es/products/34131242-final-fantasy-the-spirits-within store_origin: ES region: Spain --- # Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within **Brand:** hironobu sakaguchi **Price:** € 21.59 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within by hironobu sakaguchi - **How much does it cost?** € 21.59 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.es](https://www.desertcart.es/products/34131242-final-fantasy-the-spirits-within) ## Best For - hironobu sakaguchi enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted hironobu sakaguchi brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The year is 2065. A meteor has crashed onto Earth unleashing millions of alien creatures who roam the earth, decimating field and city alike, threatening to extinguish life itself. Prepare to be spellbound by an amazing woman, the brave individuals at her side and an astounding mission to save the Earth. ## Product Details - **Genre:** Sci-Fi - **Format:** Blu-ray, Subtitled - **Contributor:** Jun Aida, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Chris Lee, Akio Sakai - **Initial release date:** 2001-07-11 - **Language:** English ## Images ![Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81k8yzFlHJL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful but complex *by D***S on December 12, 2001* This is one amazing movie, different from anything you have ever seen. It is extremely ambitious. It is the first computer generated movie to try not only to be in 3D but to actually represent reality. A few characters, especially Dr. Sid, can fool you into thinking they are human, an incredible achievement. It is a science fiction story wrapped around a spiritual core, a very difficult proposition. It has adventure, aliens, alien war, romance, valor, tragedy, violence and pacifism. This is a conceptually, artistically and technically groundbreaking work.Does it work? Not quite.The graphics may be much more advanced than anything seen to date, including the contemporary Shrek, but they are flawed. Aki Ross, the main character, has a beautiful and soulful face, but her mouth seems chiseled on her chin, her teeth seem to be planted too far out and look like a fish's, her eyes are not wet but rather seem built of a hard plastic, her hair (each of the 60,000 threads individually animated) looks like a synthetic piece. Her body is too long, and her, uhm, bottom seems all wrong. Still she has an intriguing, star-like presence. Other characters, unfortunately are very cartoonish. All suffer from stiff bodies, their limbs attached to rigid torsos, as you see on plastic toys.By the way, the movie is not really computer generated. Rather the computer is used as a very powerful, knowledge based, colored pencil, under the control of human artists. The resulting visual experience reminds one of a very detailed drawing. Live actors were used to help the animators use the computer to render the movie's characters. No wonder, the whole thing cost 100 million dollars to make.The storyline is built around a complex spiritual core, which is revealed little by little in the movie. (If you haven't yet seen the movie you may want to jump to the next paragraph.) It proposes that each life bearing planet holds a spirit in the ground out of which each life form is born from and to which it returns after death. These planetary spirits are formed from some kind of wave, and, significantly, they are incompatible and deadly to each other. A fragment of an alien planet destroyed by nuclear war, has fallen on earth and has disgorged many deceased individual spirits of that planet, which move around like phantoms and lay waste to much of our life sphere.Well, this is a rather complicated background for most of the movie going public, not to say slightly derogatory of the Christian world view. Star War's "the force be with you" was a much simpler proposition. The joy in Final Fantasy is in taking in the beauty of the realistic but completely human-made world it depicts. Less spirituality and more laughs and sexual tension would certainly have made it more successful. This movie takes itself too seriously for its own good. Shrek's creators were smarter in this sense.I understand that Final Fantasy has been a financial flop. This is a great pity. Personally I would love to see Aki Ross again in a few years time, at 10 times better rendering technology. If a movie deserves a sequence, this is one. The movie's creators must realize that they own much more than the first photo realistic picture in human history, they also own the first human-made movie star. Let's hope they will be able to build on top of this amazing achievement. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 😀 *by B***Z on February 27, 2025* The great movie ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Inspiration for Avatar STILL AWESOME IN 2013 *by P***Z on March 19, 2013* Cameron even admits it, hats off to him. The sound track album for this movie also is grammy quality, with song number 17 being truly astonishing with a kindof sci-fi / Native American blend to the counterpoint. It's available on Amazon here: Final Fantasy - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Most composers give Goldenthal 5 of 5 stars for this album, but it is still little recognized by the recording industry! If you pass on this film, and only want to spend a buck, download song 17 from the album, you will NOT be disappointed, guaranteed.By now, everyone knows that this movie failed at the box office (cost, $140 million US, revenue $85 million worldwide). The plot is weak and character development poor. The big BUT: the team assembled over 12 years ago in Hawaii to CG the film is historic for the technology of the time. It literally is, in some ways, technically BETTER than Avatar! If you have any interest in the technology, this is a must have disc.If you're just trying to relax with a "good movie" the plot will probably fail you. The underlying premise is wonderful, as is the game series, of alien spirits as the challenge, but this slice of a story doesn't capture the majesty of that premise, except in the utterly amazing graphics and music. That's the blend and balance. 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