First Promotional Image of Appleseed 2

I hope they didn't spend their time on pretty pictures alone which is what they did on the first film. As soon as anybody was supposed to walk naturally or move naturally or speak at all it looks ghastly. One of the worst 3d animation ever. Beautiful, as long as it were action fight scenes only. Normal scenes were crap.

I can't get excited by this. Appleseed was terrible.

I just wish the films creators had spent more time on the script than animating the hair on peoples fringes moving from side-to-side.

The one thing I did like was it that was very colourful. But I didn't think the animation was as mind-blowing as I'd been expecting. The backgrounds looked like a decent computer game and the people just looked odd.

Wonderful naturalistic movements for the way the bodies moved but I thought their faces just looked creepy.

I know this film wasn't going to be on the same intellectual level as Ghost In The Shell : Innocence and I honestly hand-on-heart tried to enjoy it as a brainless action film but even then it failed.

For me an action-movie must have a sense of humour. If not it must have a half-way decent plot. This did niether and took itself waaaaaaaay too seriously.

An utterly soulless and depressing film. Whilst Steamboy was horribly flawed (and overlong) I enjoyed it far more.

I watch these movies for the animation alone anyways, if the story etc turns out to be fun as well, nice bonus :P. Same with Advent Children. Extremely awesome to look at, but the rest? Pretentious babbling for FF7 fans only. I will def. be watching this one, as the animation in the first one was awesome. Only the Japanese can mix '2D' and 3D like this. (ok, the Koreans did a pretty good job with Wonderful Days)

Yeah, I hated the first (new) Appleseed. Really, really insultingly dumb - I mean, I know corners have to be cut and material has to be trimmed but the entirety of the graphic novel was reduced to FIND THE APPLESEED TO WIN THE GAME OLOLZ and pretty much nothing else. Empty, soulless and yeah, the "look" didn't do anything like as much for me as I was hoping - some of the mocapping was amazing, but the faces just started to look eerie after a while and it was all so cold and sterile. Casshern was a big, dumb, stupid mess too, but at least it actually had some life to it and even Steamboy at least had one or two moments of genuine awe and wonder. Empty, stupid, devoid of intelligence and I'm sure the sequel's going to be ten times worse - ideally John Woo should not be let within ten miles of anything to do with it. It's simply not the kind of material he ought to be associated with. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I'm not holding my breath.

It had great action, cool visual BUT NOT an interesting sci-fi story. I thought it was bland and pretentious (as actually many Japanese Animes are!) but nevertheless i didn't quite hated the first movie 'cause i thought the Action scenes were quite cool and the opening sequence introducing this futuristic city with Paul Oakenfold's music in the background was awesome. But the rest just sucked.(Can't they think about something else then those typical Sci-Fi stories in the Animes...it's always the same brainless crap) And i'm pretty sure that the sequel won't be any better.

Why is it that the Japanese have the will, technology and the means to make amazing looking CGI films but usually end up with boring, pretentious, fortune cookie philosophical blabber with cool visuals?
I watch the films for the visuals and the action but they are dragged out and to the ground by amazingly boring dialogue about the meaning of life, the meaning of being human or something equally exciting and interesting.

I generally put the philosophizing down to the fact that Japan is - in a true and literal sense - a post-apocalyptic society. They understand both edges of technology far, far better than any other culture in the world - Hiroshima and Nagasaki were arguably a purely technological apocalypse whereas the Holocaust was entirely human - and that has been reflected in every piece of science fiction produced there since. Technology isn't just 'fun' for them and it very likely never will be within this generation, likely not for at least a couple more.

I thought it did have a very interesting story, what with the connections to Greek mythology and philosophical overtones. That's much more than you get from your usual American sci-fi flick, which are usually just a connections of chase scenes and shit blowing up in moderately futuristic looking environments.

However, I do agree with whoever said the CG work on the characters was nightmarish and terrible. While the robots, tanks etc. all looked and moved in a most kick-ass way, the human/humanoid characters looked like trippy marionettes or something. I hope they can fix that with the sequel.

PS: Any news regarding the also CG animated GUIN SAGE movie that was announced about the same time as the APPLESEED sequel?

You people are a small small minority. Foreget the elitist remarks because they come off as just that - pretentious snobbery. The animations were great. Sorry you couldn't watch pikachu dance.

appleseed was amazing the action sequences were amazing. that is all that matters. sugoi!

i am hoping they delve deeper into the plot in appleseed, i agree with one of the above posts, that appleseed did not have the intellectual capacity that ghost in teh shell had, but, you must remmember that all of the lements that make ghost in the shell interesting first apeared in the appleseed books. the appleseed manga was perhaps the most amazing manga ever written or drawn, and for that, it won many awards,
including literature awards they only award to novelists, a first in comic book history. i was saddened by the beautiful action sequences in appleseed, and shocked that the "normal" animations of a characters face were severly lacking, if not just bad. but what im hoping for most, is that they redeem the story. Shirow is the
assic asimov of manga, and appleed is his grand manifesto, an epic.
within its pages were issues even more interesting than that of ghost in the shell, more insightfull into the blend of technology and biology, simply amazing stuff, and they turned the first one
into an all out action movie with less than inspiring animation:(