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Street Fighter -- Collector's Edition
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List Price: $9.99
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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue
Directed By: Steven E. de Souza
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783227092
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 0783227094
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1998-05-27
Running Time: 102
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1994-12-23
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Customer Rating:
Summary: not to well
Comment: man i tell you.i see alot of problems in this movie.
i can make a better street figher.thats to whoever produced this movie and directed this movie.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It's Fun, in a way.
Comment: By no means is this a good movie, but for a mindless action flick it is not too bad. There is a bunch of over action and groan outloud lines, but at the end of the movie you don't feel robbed in anyway. There are some really fun moments, on-liners, and some of the fighting is not done that bad.
Sad note this is still a bare-bones DVD, just the movie and nothing else. You wished for maybe getting Van Dam to do some commentary or something by now.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Simply Hiliarous to Watch--Even If It's Not Meant to Be a Comedy!
Comment: Let's get something straight before you think of purchasing this product:
-This is NOT the anime (japanese animation) movie for Street Fighter 2, nor is it the anime Street Fighter II V series.
-This is NOT the live action Street Fighter movie, however it is *kinda* based on said media. (I will explain why it *kinda* is further down.)
This is the animated cartoon that you may or may not remember that appeared on USA Network (or at the time: the "USA Cartoon Express") along with the Double Dragon and Mortal Kombat cartoons.
This particular show stars Guile (instead of Ryu), who leads an 'elite' group of young man and woman in an undercover police force know only as their code name "Street Fighter".
Also be aware that this is the first season instead of the entire series: the second season of the two is Street Fighter: Soul Powers, so you'll have to get that box set to complete the series.
Before I explain a few problems and/or reasons why most people may turn away from the show, I'll give you a full list of episodes that will be included:
The Adventure Begins-
Guile and the Street Fighters must save a group of scientist from Bison, who are working for a cure against a deadly disease.
The Strongest Woman in the World-
Bison is threating to destory an entire village and Guile in the gang must stop him. The village just happens to be Chun Li's old home and the episode is really based on her wanting revenge against Bison for killing her father. Out of all the conclusions with fights against Bison, this is the one that makes the least since but I won't spoil it.
Getting to Guile-
Bison tries to brainwash Guile and turn him against the Street Fighters, using a machine and a series of nightmares to make him believe he can trust Bison. It's up to Chun Li (leading the team), Dee Jay, and the gang to save him.
Chunnel Vision-
After MI-6 finally capture Bison, who then has Shadoloo terrorize England by blowing schools and such up until his release and 1 Million pounds, Cammy and Guile must assist them.
No Way Out-
Guile and the gang have to save the American Embassy that's being withheld in Shadoloo.
Demon Island-
A Dee Jay episode of sorts. Guile and the game have to uncover a missing aircraft that can literally, turn invisiable. Dee Jay wants to clear is name after Zangiff sabatoged him in a fight, causing him to loose his title. This also begins the Cammy/Guile ship. (With seriously flirtation, including trying to kiss Guile, from Cammy.)
Desert Thunder-
Guile and Blanka have to recover a stolen laser with the help of an outside source.
Dark Heart-
Bison's got a machine that he's using to pull a once in a thousand(s) year comit to Earth that will destroy the entire midwest. Guile, Blanka, Ken and Ryu, along with the help of Dhalism, who has now turned his back on science and technology, must stop him.
The Medium is the Message-
Guile and the gang enter a tournament, hosted by Shadoloo. After Bison tries to destroy them with three monsters (using Dhalism's old notes that he used to create Blanka), he then produces a false tape that shows Chun Li, Guile, and Blanka defiling a holy temple in India. This enrages the people, who then try to destory them. Some Notes:
-Just about most, if not all, of the characters from the first alpha game appear in this episode.
-Common Sense plays a role in this episode: why didn't anyone just go into the temple and check to see if it actually had been destoried? But I ramble...
-This is the infamous episode where Bison:
1. Runs down the hallway, crying "YES!"
2. Contains the part where Bison screams "YES! :pause: YES!" as seen on YouTube.
Eye of the Beholder (One of the better episodes in the set.)-
One of my personal favorites. This is a Blanka episode: pretty much, there is a scientist that has found a way to prolong a person's youth with a serum. It also as the ability to turn Blanka back into a human, which is does, but it can only be sustained after the second dose. However, Vega, as vain as ever, also has his eye on the 'Fountain of Youth'. What insues is (for this show at least) is one of the better storylines (and kinda touching at towards the end) of the show.
The Hand that Feeds You-
A Fei-Long episode. Guile, Ken and Ryu (who's also looking for his cousin) travel to Hong Kong in a effort to uncover a drug ring. Fei-Long, a famous Hong Kong movie star, assist once he realizes his own director and best friend could be invovled.
Keeping the Peace-
Guile and the new colonel Sawada try to stop emerald smugglers in Mexico. (Note: Sawada was the third person in Guile's close nit group (other than Cammy) from the movie. He's not in the game and he is NOT T-Hawk!.)
Strange Bedfellows (Anotehr of the better episodes. The first (of only two I believe) with Akuma.)
Bison and Guile must work together against a greater threat: Akuma. Note:
-This is the Season 1 finale.
-Akuma in this show is portrayed as an actual, erm, demon. Complete with crazy 'demon' powers.
What happened with this cartoon was they attempted to continue the story where the movie ended--however they also tried to base the story on the actual game, which then lead to the overall story being very conflicted.
A few issues raised because of this and overall, resulted in more than a few people not liking this version of the Street Fighters characters:
-Guile is once again, the main character of the show. It has been believed that many that Ryu is the main character of the series, if not the most important.
-A ??? moment: Blanka, Dhalism, and Bison apparently survived at the end of the movie--though how any of them did is never explained.
-Chun Li works for Interpol: she never was a television reporter. And her father was also an agent, not a poor villager.
-Everyone's personality is completely ? ? ? at times, though in some episodes, more so than others. And some characters personalities are changed completely. (Like Ken's.)
-Blanka and Charlie Nash (Note: For those that don't know, Charlie was actually the best friend of Guile, who was murdered by Bison. He is the reason why Guile hates and is originally after Bison in the games.) are two seperate people, though Blanka's transformation apparently (if you by the 'Street Fighter: Eternal Challenge' book, as well as loose content from the games and bios) is the fault of Shadoloo's.
-Guile was in the AIRFORCE, not the Army (As portrayed on the show, I can't remember if it is in the movie or not.) And he NEVER lost his rank as colonel or was discharged, though he was (I'm still not exactly clear on how this happened as the show does a poor job of explaining things, more on that below.) in the show. He's also suppose to have a wife and daughter, not an ex-girlfriend or (out of no where too) trying to be shipped off with Cammy.
-Cammy's story is...huummm...: she apparently was kidnapped from her home (though she's wearing the Delta Red outfigt already) by Bison, who murdered her parents. She (unknowingly?) somehow escaped, joined Delta Red, then left them (apparently due to regulations and rules she didn't agree with, plus a more than hinted at love triangle that she got involved with two other memebers of the group) to help the Street Fighters.
However in the movie, she was part of an 'Interpol' like set up, where different people from around the world had assembled together from different branches of their government to bring Shadoloo down.
Her real story: According to both the Udon comics, hints from the games, and the SF: UC book, Cammy is actually an experiment made by Bison in the attempts of making another suitable body host for his soul and/or Psycho Power. She was freed from his mind control then joined Delta Red.
-A few characters switched roles in the shows from the movie:
1.)Dee Jay is actually a good guy (like he's suppose to be)and his connection to Shadoloo is either completely ignored or is just never brought up. (Like it never happened...)
2.)Balrog works for Shadoloo as he's suppose to, though he's still quite calm and apparently, intellgent, unlike his actual character. He also apparently can do EVERYTHING, including type on a computer, with his boxing gloves.
3.Sagat is is a mish/mash of being a 'crime lord' and his original character: he's got a serious grudge against Ryu, as usual.
4.Vega is actually done correctly personality wise, though a bit toned down on the psychosis and bloodlust. He apparently doesn't work for Shadoloo or Sagat (like in the movie) even though he's seen with the gang in the intro as if he does. Though Bison can get him to do things if there's something in it for him, I.E. the promise of 'Eternal Youth'.
5. E. Honda is the 'intellgence' of the team. He's ridiculously awesome with computers and such and comes off as very intellgent.
6. Ken & Ryu:
Ryu-
They *almost*, *kinda*, *sorta* got him right. Except he's not all 'about the fight'. He's still far more honorable than Ken, even though he allows himself to be pulled into schemes and such. He comes off more like a sidekick than anything, more so in the second season.
Ken-
Wow. This has to be the worst on they got wrong. It's like they tried to capture Ken's personality but instead, made it worse: he's annoying, whiny, and almost cowardly at times. He's very undisciplined, quite selfish, and seems to be very one tracked minded on money, being rich and famous, and lots of babes--even though the second season contradicts a few things. (Like one minute Ken is wealthy, this is hinted at thanks to his father helping to make Fei Long's movie. Then in another, where they have to save Gouken, which happens to be the biggest What the Heck moment in Street Fighter history, he was a kid on the street that Gouken took in. Make up your MINDS!) Ken fans: get ready to be insulted...
Other things that might annoy you about the show:
-Storylines and elements aren't explained very well. You have to do a lot of 'assuming' most of the time.
-There are more than it's fair share of What the Heck? moments, more so when dealing with Bison.
-Some of the character's signature moves are used incorrectly or just look outright laughably lame when performed: like Chun Li's Spinning Bird Kick and Fei Long's Flame Kick are ridiculous slow and last amamzingly too long in some instances. (It was hard NOT to laugh during her flashback of Bison vs. Her Father.) You will DIE laughing when you where Ryu say "Hadoken!", let alone when they perform their Hurrican Kicks. Guile's somersault kick is now a projectile.
-The animation can get bad in some instances. (I now am the proud owner of more than a few avatars based on a few bad moments when I happened to pause the show.)
In all, the best reason, if any, to get this show is simply because it's so bad, it's actually funny. I found entertainment in pointing out all the things they did wrong with the show and cracking up at them than anything else.
For as cheap as you can find it from the user's, this is worth the $20 bucks to pick up, just for a laugh.
I give this title three stars because while yes, it was bad, it did entertainment, which was it's purpose.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A decent Buy
Comment: While not as polished as the other Street Fighter IV it does have some okay action in it. The main character change is a depature but out of respect to Raulo Julia who was a great actor I bought the Dvd. It was a decent buy and if you are a true collector its a must buy for the street fighter collection though I would buy it used.
Customer Rating:
Summary: "I'm the Repo Man, and you're out of business!"
Comment: "You can't make a movie out of a video game." That's what they told writer/director Steven de Souza when he took on this daunting project. They were probably right, but he wrote the script anyway...and he only had one night to do it. Perhaps he should have asked for two nights. Nevertheless, here we have the infamous live-action version of Street Fighter on DVD in a lavish Widescreen Collector's Edition, packed with a plethora of bonus features, including: trailers; TV promos; behind the scenes footage; storyboards; deleted scenes; video game footage; movie poster art; Chun-Li's news footage; video game character art; `The Making of Street Fighter' featurette; and even a running commentary by the aforementioned writer/director, Steven de Souza. Never has a motion picture so universally despised received such an extraordinary DVD treatment!
Street Fighter may not be as awful as some people think, but it certainly isn't very good. The plot is meandering and hard to follow, and the characters' motivations are not always clear. It's too often silly and only occasionally exciting, but it's not consistently funny enough to be considered a comedy, and not dramatic enough to be considered an action movie. The film's worst flaw is that it doesn't stay true to its source material. General M. Bison is a drug lord turned power mad dictator who is holding sixty-three "Allied Nations" relief workers in a "hostage pit" in his secret underground base in Shadaloo, Southeast Asia. The smartly-dressed megalomaniac demands that a staggering ransom of twenty billion dollars be deposited into his Swiss bank account within three days or the hapless hostages will die. Though he lacks the Psycho Power of his video game counterpart, the impudent General plans to use the ransom money to build Bisonopolis (complete with a food court) and, of course, take over the world. Chun-Li Zang is a reporter for GNT World News and her news crew consists of Balrog, the boxer, and Edmond Honda, the Hawaiian sumo wrestler. Colonel William F. Guile (the main character here) is the blue-camouflaged A.N. military commander who has an American flag tattooed on his shoulder even though he's Belgian. Cammy works for Guile, not for Bison. Ken and Ryo--the stars of the video game--are portrayed as thieving con men who sell ping-pong ball guns to bad guys...like Bison's skinny one-eyed arms supplier, Sagat. Zangief, the Russian, is depicted as a complete moron. And Dhalsim is not an Indian monk and Yoga master, but a scientist who is forced, by Bison, to turn Guile's friend, Charlie Blanka, into a mindless, orange-haired Hulk-like killing machine by injecting colorful liquids into him and making him watch horrific videos (like this one) in an "incubation chamber." Dr. Dhalsim has a full head of thick black hair until near the end of the picture, when he suddenly and inexplicably shows up completely bald.
The movie does have its moments though. Raúl Juliá is terrifically entertaining as General Bison, even if he is too gaunt to be believable as the powerful fighter from the arcade game. There are some clever lines like: "For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. For me, it was Tuesday." And Guile's speech to the A.N. troops just before they mount an amphibious attack on Bison's lair is pretty inspiring, despite the fact that Jean-Claude Van Damme seems to have a lot of trouble speaking the English language. There's also a very impressive explosion near the end of the film. Still, proper representations of the Street Fighter characters can only be found in animated form (see Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie and Street Fighter II V: The Collection).
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