Dante's Inferno

This was an ambitious project using some big name producers that simply has not worked when the complete package was presented. Although it was different sections done by different producers (like the Animatrix) it is presented as a complete film and needs to be treated as such.

There are so many things wrong with Inferno it is hard to now where to begin, but a start on the most glaring thing is the animation. As far as the animation goes it ranges from adequate stuff you would see in an anime series to lazy animation so bad it reminded me of late 80's low budget animation like Violence Jack.

The glaring thing for me was the change between Dante and Virgil, they constantly change appearance throughout the film with no qualification, Dante going from being stick thin to a muscled beefcake without any prior explanation. This happens at least 5 times.

Moving on to the dialogue it is a promising start (the first 5-6 lines) and then it begins, and from the first utterance of 'Beatrice' things go downhill, with an extraordinary 20 minutes of the film when BEATRICE is mentioned no less than 25 times, it seemed like sometimes in place of the plot they simply inserted the word Beatrice just in case we forgot why he was there.

At times this film was dark and gritty, at other times it was completely stupid and ranks as one of the worst anime films I have ever seen.