Brief prologue sets up a black-comic gun battle in a convenience store to intro Spike and Jet, but scene has nothing to do with the heart of the matter, involving a mysterious man in black who detonates a chemical truck in the heart of a big city.Īlthough fellow hunter Faye catches a brief glimpse of the bomber, the criminal’s identity is elusive even as the death toll from the attack mounts. This version is the one under review, and it is preferable to the dubbed form, which uses the same distracting and overdone lead Yank voices as in the small-screen episodes.įans sure that the saga had ended will find the clan restored to full strength as it travels the local galaxy taking offers to hunt down criminals. TriStar will release at least one non-dubbed, subtitled print of “Cowboy Bebop” in each major market. release, following September Nippon opening. bounty in TriStar’s planned early 2003 U.S. Though it isn’t the entirely original creation “Metropolis” was, “Bebop” is more satisfying, and likely to snatch similar B.O. First feature is an utterly faithful expansion of the skein to the bigscreen, and prior knowledge of the band - which cruises aboard spaceship Bebop in the latter half of the 21st century - is not required. But as fans of TV series “Cowboy Bebop” are well aware, the gang, led by young slacker Spike Spiegel and ex-cop cohort Jet Black, serves up generous helpings of odd humor and philosophy while dispatching the baddies. As with last year’s superb anime epic, “Vampire Hunter D,” “Cowboy Bebop: The Movie” features bounty hunters as heroes on the trail of an elusive and mysterious nemesis, while exploiting the anime style to depict urban loneliness and near-apocalyptic decay.
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