I've just watched Final Fantasy Advent Children. I've had the movie for a while but haven't had time to watch it. I've got some points to make and some questions. Please note, this contains some spoilers throughout...


As the film starts out, i was shocked to see that Cloud was friends with Reno and Rude. During the game he wasn't friends with these two. Cloud was also friendly with Rufus. Which had me thinking... Rufus is the son of the President Of ShinRa. Rufus and Cloud had a memorable battle in FF7 in which i thought Rufus had died. It turns out i was wrong. After some research it shows that Rufus was revived by paramedics... Hence he's still alive, but has nasty injuries from his encounter with Weapon and Sephiroth.

Soon enough, three new characters who i've not heard of before decide to come into play and take a huge role in the film. Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo. Am i right in saying they were not in FF7? I don't see how they got involved in trying to get 'Jenova' (Mother) onto the Planet. And i'm not sure why Sephiroth needs Jenova to summon Meteor. (Sephiroth needs to summon meteor to kill the planet, so he can become God on the new planet he was talking about).

Now onto another point. I was shocked at how little screentime the original cast got. I thought Barret and co got dragged in last minute. I almost thought they were not getting introduced.

Quickly, i'll just mention Zack. I wasn't sure that Zack was killed. But after more research, it turns out he died saving Cloud when they were in SOLDIER. So we see Zack with Aerith. Both 'ghosts', but watching over Cloud. This is VERY interesting that Zack is dead with Aerith, because in Crisis Core, which is yet to be released for the Sony PSP, it is set 6 years before Final Fantasy 7. During this time, Zack and Aerith were very close. So they lived together and died together. I am now extremely curious to find out why they were so close etc. So i'll be buying a PSP just to find out.

Random things to add:

I was glad to see Marelene make a return. She's grown up in 2 years!!!

Cait Sith.......is Scottish. Now that kinda took the piss. No offense to anyone who is Scottish, for the record, i have Scottish friends, but when everyone else had a plain accent, why did they give Cait Sith a Scottish accent? That was just weird.

Cid was looking stronger than ever!

I liked the way Vincent didn't have a phone, and Marlene got mad at him. Then when Vincent came to battle Bahamut Sin, he said something along the lines of: ''does anybody know if i can buy a phone here?''


And that's all. If you want to add something or answer my questions feel free. Thanks for reading.

Good movie. Late to the show, but it's good you saw it.

They felt like making Cait Sith as annoying as humanly possible. What's more annoying than a cat with a scottish accent? Not much.

Yes, you are correct. This movie is a continuation of that game, so new characters are likely to emerge.

Yeah it is weird that most of the characters have american accents .

They gave him a scottish accent because hes based on a scottish fairy tale.

I didnt know that, thanksi wondered also why he was scotish

^^^

Thanks for that. Makes sense. I should let you know, i found that Meteor bit of info on a place i'll pm you with.


I also need to ask, 'what is in the Promised Land'. I heard of it through FF7 all the time but i'm not sure if they ever described what it was.

I think the promise land is actually the life stream.

i don't think people hate the Scottish accent. I certainly don't. I just think it was extremely out of place when the cast seemed to have English/American accents, which are pretty plain, not as strong as the Scottish accent, and it just really stood out.

I mean, i have a Scottish friend, so i know.... Imagine going to a bar full of English and American people and saying: ''what yoo on aboot''' in a Scottish accent. It'd just seem a bit out of place. Nothing personal though, the accent is pretty cool