Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9781569312346 Format: Animated, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 1569312346 Label: Viz Video Manufacturer: Viz Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Viz Video Release Date: December 16, 1999 Running Time: 100 minutes Studio: Viz Video Sales Rank: 65757
Amazon.com: Based on the video game, Fatal Fury is widely regarded as one of the best kung fu anime features. The good guys are Terry "Hungry Wolf" Bogard and his brother, Andy; Thai kickboxer Joe Higashi; and the curvaceous ninja Mai. With their masses of spiky blond hair, narrow blue eyes, and sharp features, the Bogard brothers almost cross over into the "beautiful boy" genre, but they and Joe are muscled like dinosaurs. Mai, who has a crush on Andy, provides both humor and jiggle interest in a succession of minuscule outfits. The heroes are pitted against an assortment of equally buffed-out Bad Guys, led by Laocorn, a descendant of the ancient clan of Gaudeamus, who is seeking to obtain "the armor of Vulcan." A relic going back to the time of Alexander the Great, the armor transforms anyone who wears all seven pieces of it into a god. But Laocorn's twin sister, Sulia, knows it will also make the wearer hopelessly evil: she enlists the Bogards and their friends to prevent her brother from acquiring the scattered pieces. Director Masami Obari uses all the standard tricks for the bone-crunching martial arts battles--blurs, streaks, slow-motion images of blows landing on skulls, camera spins, flashes of lighting, flames, and, of course, gobs of blood. Fatal Fury feels like a cross between an Indiana Jones film and a WWE tag-team match, and is sure to delight adolescent boys. (Rated 13 Up) --Charles Solomon
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Buster Wolf!?!
"Are you okay?!"
This review is going to be a little biased because I first saw this movie during my junior high days in the mid 1990s. At the time, fighting games were the rage from Street ... Read More
Rating: - POWER GEYSER!!!!!!!!!
This was one of the first anime I ever saw, following the first two installments and Bio Booster Armor Guyver. It was, and still is, one of the most awesome, outrageous, far out action movies ever. The music ... Read More
Rating: - great anime
I enjoy two things in anime, people fighting in giant robots and people fighting with super powers.This movie satisfies the latter in a major way.
Rating: - Boring!
To be quite honest! This movie SUCKED! The story was somewhat senseless, the villien, Laocorn was very boring and stupid, some of the characters were dumb, and most of all, Mai was ruined and acted silly and ... Read More
Rating: - the King of Fighters
I love the video games Fatal Fury and when I heard theirs a movie I just couldn't wait. After seeing the Street Fighter 2 movie it was great. I'm thinking the animation on this movies is just as good. I can tell ... Read More
- Buster Wolf!?!
- great anime
- Boring! 