Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)

[Chris Beveridge]

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Released By: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Japan
MSRP: 7,800
Running time: 100 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Widescreen
Resolution: 1080p
Encoded With: MPEG-2
Release Date: 12/06/2006
Review Date: 12/09/2006
Date Announced: 08/29/2006
Region: A - N. America, S. America, East Asia
Reviewed By: Chris Beveridge

In Summary:
A visual and technical masterpiece that will certainly show off just how far anime has come since its predecessor, Ghost in the Shell: Innocence unfortunately is a very formulaic story that's so highly infused with religious and philosophical discourses that they seemingly forgot to put in dialogue for much of the plot. While the US DVD release was probably one of the best looking anime releases out for that format, the film reaches a whole new level here. Its animation style and approach is quite different from that of Brave Story that we saw recently but this one again shows that anime can look amazing here. Buena Vista Japan did a solid job with the presentation of this film and has provided materials from a multi-disc DVD edition on a single dual-layered disc that is quite simply the reference version of this film.