video -- still good; nice: clear picture, no video-noise; bad: the contrast-adjustement was made wrong: black is only dark grey, so everything looks washed out audio -- good, another DTS to stereo mixdown(?), but it's ok this time subs -- average; names are wrong, many sentences broken in serveral fast popping subs, somehow "cold" translated english RESULT: since the orginal movie itself tends to be crap, maybe you should just ignore this version too.

Video- 4 Audio- 4.5 Subs- 3 the video seemed extremly dark. Maybe this is for effect or it's the DVD??? The audio was fine but the subs hurt. I can't get over name changes in subs. Van = Barn... umm... no...

First off let it be known that my PS2 has been having glitches lately so this may just be the one movie that finally pushed my PS2 over the edge? Who knows. The movie skipped and paused throughout my watching of the movie and finally around 35 minutes into the movie it paused and I got the Unable to read disc message. Sucks to be me. Luckily I have a DVD ROM on my PC so I was able to watch the movie in it's faded and pixelated glory (Have yet to find a good software DVD program) Video - 4 very good not perfect. Audio - 4 The movies audio was superb and I would have rated this disc a 5 except that the Title menu's sound was Super boosted to the point of reverb hell =( Subtitles - 3 The translation was not very good at all and also at times the subtitles were not on screen long enough to read when there was no need for them to be removed. Content - TV series was excellent this is good if that. To be honest I am confused as to why they would do an Escaflowne movie to begin with. Especially when they changed so much about the series that they could have used all knew characters and such and created a unique movie instead of a radically changed Escaflowne *sigh* Oh my disc is AC BTW

Video: Its very nice, I don't find it to be as bright as people say i can see everything clearly on my TV. Audio: Again a very nicely done with the audio no hissing or any such thing that would bring it down. Subtitles: i had seen this movie fansubed before buying the HK DVD and i must say that the subtitles were quite close to the fansub, besides the horrible name mistranslations but what can you do is a HK DVD. The one thing that completely made me mad was the lack of chapters. I had to fastforward through the whole film just to see the last fight scene. Not to fun to fastforward through and entire movie. edited by Backalao on 28 Mar 2002 4:32 pm

Video: 4.5 damn good for HK. A tiny bit too bright. Audio: 4.5 Perfect, except for lack of DTS Subs: This is quite arguable. Im not a huge fan of the original show, and therefor the fact that the names are all wrong didnt bother me much. Those of you who are Esca purists might find this quite annoying. My girlfriend just about had a fit when van came up as "Barm" I was quite impressed this film. Its portrayel of Hitomi's emotions in the beginning is quite moving, and very stylistically directed. There is also a musical motif that beautifully ties the movie together from start to finish. Highly recommended to everyone, ever if you didnt like the series. edited by gilm7198 on 03 Mar 2002 12:28 pm

This release beats the crap out of the AS release which ripped this disc and screwed it up. The video is very, very good. Looks great, a few scenes suffer a glitch or two, but still very good. Audio, very good, awesome surround track. Good stuff. Subs, HK originals, but really, really good ones. The english seems almost perfect and fansub quality at times, its just at times they stick in a phrase or word in the sentence that sounds strange. Really good, and no problem at all understanding. The names are wrong, sort of. If you've seen fansubs some of them used these similar spellings. Basically the spelling in the movie is how its said by the Japanese. Van is Barn because thats how the Japanese say it. Its not bad at all, but if your picky then go wait for the official disc. This is very good. The timing is quite good, there are several instances where it moved to fast, but for the most part the subs were consistent.

Video 4.0 ? This release had pretty good video. I didn?t notice any compression artifacts on my setup and only once do I remember there being a motion blip. However, I did feel that the video was a little on the bright side in certain scences.

Audio 4.5- Oh my! Oh my indeed! This movie had an excellent stereo track! Lots on direction and sounded great on my speakers. Sorry, no DTS to be found :(

Audio 4.5- Oh my! Oh my indeed! This movie had an excellent stereo track! Lots on direction and sounded great on my speakers. Sorry, no DTS to be found :(

Video 4.0 ? This release had pretty good video. I didn?t notice any compression artifacts on my setup and only once do I remember there being a motion blip. However, I did feel that the video was a little on the bright side. Audio 4.5- Oh my! Oh my indeed! This movie had an excellent stereo track! Lots on direction and sounded great on my speakers. Sorry, no DTS to be found :( Subtitles 4.0 ? These are HK originals but are very understandable. I never really remember being lost during the movie do to bad subtitles. A thing that might bug some people are the names. Van becomes Barm, Meril becomes Meruru (I like this one better), Gaea become Kaea and so on and so on. Menu 3.5- This is a one page menu with a picture of the DVD cover stretched to fill the whole screen. Everything is in Chinese but there are like only a couple things to choose from so it?s not a big deal. Extras 4.5- What?s that I hear..? EXTRAS?! Yes, my friend this has two extras!! Both are trailers for the movie but still cool none the less. The only reason they are getting a 4.5 is because they aren?t subtitled. :( Packaging 5.0 ? Nothing wrong here?everything looks A-OK!