Street Fighter 2: The Movie

 

            After watching Street Fighter: The Movie I lately found its Japanese counterpart on Amazon Prime for a reasonable price of FREE. And it was only 90ish minutes so, I figured why not try this Japanese animated movie about the second best popular, fighting game. And this is my first time experiencing Japanese animation and I got to tell you this may be my only Japanese cartoon movie I'll probably ever watch, though in all fairness our fellow allies have a bizarre way of making cartoons.

            Kind of the same concept as the movie Street Fighter, only this time you see some street fighting, only this time M. Bison is trying to capture some of these fighters like Ryu, who travel around the world to battle other street fighters. Interpol agent Chun-Li teams up with Colonel Guile to help track down and stop M. Bison before his evil plan becomes a reality. 

             Strangely the film makes more sense than the video game or the live action movie to the extent of actual street fighting is happening and yet the tournament is still lost to me, and granted Mortal Kombat's tournament makes a ton of sense to me but Street Fighter's tournament factor is still lost to me because we center around the fact that M. Bison is a terrorist and runs a crime syndicate, while Guile and Chun-Li are teaming up to stop him. Now granted you can take the tournament aspect out of the equation and say that Colonel Guile recruits a group of Street fighters and call them Street Fighter (though it would be a horrible name) and you can make it as a Dirty Dozen treatment to it, either way I can go on and on about how to make this better but I'm going to stop before I go crazy. Interestingly enough I yeah I seen tons of nudity in Heavy Metal but this is another movie where I never expected a shower scene and see full frontal nudity which I was like "HOLY CRAP", like I can almost picture a lot of these street fighter fans that are either kids and loved the live action film and watches this movie and all of a sudden the full nudeness happens and all the kids have a deer in the headlights look and immediate are like "I love BOOBS NOW". And later you see kids at the elementary school telling their friends about the boobies they seen and that's how early nineties kids began to like girls. A side the jokes this movie does have some great moments fun action scenes but in the end I still have to go with the live action just because of the silliness as well as Raul Julia giving it all especially since the man wanted to go out with a bang and this movie does have some fun scenes but then you rarely see some of your favorite fighters and that's basically the reason why Mortal Kombat Annihilation but then again who remembers Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. If you’re a fan of the Street Fighter series I would recommend watching this film on both Pluto TV and Amazon Prime as well as if you’re a fan of Japanese Animation than this movie would for sure be the movie for you to watch from beginning to the very end.