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+===================
+ Berserk - movie 2
+===================
+:CreationDate: 2014-03-19 12:03:52
+:Id: anime/review/berserk-2
+:tags: - anime
+       - review
+:rating: 3
+:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/berserk-movie-2-battle-for-doldrey
+
+Here we have the second instalment in the long undertaking of
+transposing the whole of Miura's manga in animation. This movie covers
+fewer events than `the first one <../berserk-1/>`_, but this is forced
+by the pacing of the manga: you cannot just stop telling a story at
+arbitrary points, you have to get to a local conclusion, or to a
+cliffhanger. This movie chooses the second option, reaching chapter 39
+(if you've read it, you can easily check what I mean; if you haven't,
+I won't spoil it for you!). From the short preview we get at the end,
+they plan to cover about 40 or 50 chapters in the next movie; these
+first two covered about 20 chapters each, so I'm not sure how they can
+squeeze twice the story in the same length. We'll see in a few months:
+the third movie was release last February in Japan, and the delay for
+translation seems to be about a year.
+
+As usual, we get our fair share of fighting: a full-scale cavalry
+engagement, an ambush, a duel. We see the effects and repercussions of
+Griffith's political machinations, reflected in the way Midlands'
+nobles treat the Band of the Hawk. And we also see a few sex and
+nudity scenes, but they're not gratuitous (thanks Miura!), they are
+all defining events for the characters involved, and crucial to the
+plot.
+
+The main disappointment, again, is the quality of the
+computer-generated animation. Now, I understand that not everyone can
+get their hands on Weta-quality software, but if you are generating a
+battleground with thousand of people fighting on horseback, you should
+at least check that, in a long panning shot from above, you don't
+leave most of them immobile. Another offender: a ballroom full of
+dancing people, where you can see they're dancing only because the
+skirts expand and contract… On the whole it is a bit less jarring than
+the first movie, but it's still noticeably bad.
+
+All in all, a solid middle-of-trilogy movie that confirms the ability
+of the studio to deliver a good adaptation.
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