Lady Death: The Motion Picture [Blu-ray]

Does she look like lady death? Hell yeah...Does this feel like the comics? NO.The animation could be better, there is no doubt about that. I have to agree with the other reviewers as well that the movie felt like it just ran too fast. The explanation of why she wants to kill Lucifer? Absolutely understandable...How she became Lady Death? Also understandable, but more time should have been spent on her training and understanding her powers. Instead they showed a midling length training session where we are supposed to assume that she spent "years" training (this is accomplished by wardrobe changes in the "extended" fight scene).Addtionally we are supposed to simply understand why souls in Hell are afraid of dying. There is only one explanation that makes any sense at all in this regard; you are already dead, you exist only as a soul in Hell. Soo what's left if the soul is destroyed? Nothing. Since I have read a lot of religious and occult texts this wasn't too much of a stretch for me but since most people don't read such things this really should have been explained in the movie but it wasn't.Normally I don't do or like spoilers but there is one thing in this movie that REALLY bothers me; mainly because it throws my explanation of soul destruction under a bus. In order to save his soul Lady Death must kill Nicolo so that his soul can be released and go to Heaven. My problem is simple; how the Hell is Nicolo ALIVE in Hell? Living creatures cannot exist in HELL!My final complaint is the ending: It does end but it also has an open ending?! C'mon! They aren't going to make another one, they never intended to make another one; so why give it an open ending? That's just mean!Call me crazy, but regardless of my complaints I still found this to be a thoroughly enjoyable show.

lady death: the motion picture i for one liked very much. i read bad reviews on the dvd and i had to find out for myself. lady death is not a awful dvd in fact i would like to she another one one her. she deserves better treatment a team that would do her honor in art work and aniamation in filming on another dvd of great quaility and i would buy it. she has her own comic with excellent artists and coloring team and i just signed on as a fan of hers. im giving lady death a big thumps up!!! with even buying her comic and etc. everyone can"t liked the same thing all the time some liked lady death"s dvd some didn"t like it. SO AS A NEW FAN OF LADY DEATH!!! I SAY LONG LIVE LADY DEATH!!! G. philadelphia pa.

I'm a pretty big Lady Death fan I suppose. I have all the comic books (including most variant covers) and I have most of the comics published by Chaos! Comics in general. I didn't go as overboard as some people, where they own all the other products produced aside from comics, but I really liked a lot of the characters they put into comics. I got into Lady Death when I was in junior high; naturally my motives weren't completely intellectually driven, as you should be able to tell from the cover of this movie. As I got older I still appreciated the character and comics for what they were, but I certainly wasn't expecting anything profound at this point, nor was I when I picked up this movie. I was pretty excited at first because I thought this story would be a great animated movie. I was looking forward to seeing "The Reckoning" in film format... that's definitely not what us fans got.Unfortunately if you're a fan of this comic then this does not recount the tale like you read in the comics. This feels way more haphazardly thrown together and really doesn't do the original writing justice. Frankly, I don't exactly know what happened. What I do know is that Chaos! Comics ended up going bankrupt during this time. They actually filed for a chapter that requires you to sell off all assets, not the one where you get government protection to keep your business going, no, everything had to go. However, Brian Pulido did manage to hold onto his rights of the Lady Death character and she now appears with him under Avatar Press. During this fiasco this motion picture was being made, and I suspect that because everything else was tied up in legal issues he couldn't use the original story line from "The Reckoning". Maybe he no longer held that copyright. I think Pulido wanted to give his fans a film somewhat in the spirit of Lady Death at least, but his original story line was so much better than what we got here. I know the man is a film major and really into film in general, but I really think this could have been done a little bit better. Personally rather than recounting the origins of Lady Death I think maybe he should have written a whole different tale considering everything else was tied up, but maybe he couldn't? I really don't know.In the end we have a film that is very loosely based on the original "The Reckoning" story line, but with a way more disjointed feel. Like Lady Death ends up in Hell for totally different reasons, also her father is a vastly different person as well. Cremator's role isn't explained very well at all, but they probably weren't allowed to use his original concept. Not to mention whoever did the voice acting for Cremator was not a good fit at all, in my opinion. However, I thought Lady Death's voice actor was suitable, so for that I was glad. Even Purgatori's character was all wrong in this and she's my favorite Pulido character! I don't know what more to say about this because I don't want to give too much away, because it doesn't make a lot of sense anyway and people will just get confused. But for example, Lady Death ends up fighting all these demon lords that aren't even in the comics, never mind the fact they have nothing to do with her rise to power in Hell story line, but yet they're worked in? Lady Death's realization of her powers in this is so sudden and haphazard, that it doesn't show that she was in Hell for a while before she really started figuring out how things work there in the original concept.Overall the animation is on par with cartoons you'd watch in the early 1990's. I know this will seem quite poor for a 2004 release, but you have to remember the creators and artists are into nostalgia. It's really no different than the art we saw in the original comic book series back in 1994. I can see why people would complain about the animation in light of today's work if they never read this comic from 1994. The most impressive thing about this movie was the soundtrack, which I thought was excellently powerful. However, I really can't see many people buying into this film, fans of Lady Death and anyone else for that matter. I can see what Pulido was trying to do, but I really don't think it worked overall. I mean, I don't remember "real" Death showing up at all in "The Reckoning" and then her stealing his powers? Basically she realized desire is power and then made the eternal graveyard in the comics. That didn't really happen at all here... ah well, if it comes to take it or leave it, I'm leaving it.

Lady death is a great movie

Loved these comics when they first came out, and always thought they should make a movie. I heard it was in the works, but later cancelled. Then saw this, and had to get it. Not bad, but in no way a classic in the making. More of a novelty, to go with the other items I own with Lady Death!!!

I wasn't completely stunned with the movie. They could have done certain things with it. But overall, this movie just lacked what I wanted of a Lady Death movie. I only got this movie just to see what it was about & for it to go with my Lady Death collection.Sadly I am disappointed with this movie. The animation wasn't what it was cracked up to be. I would only recommend this if you're a hardcore collector of Lady Death. But rather than unwrapping it and seeing this movie, keep it sealed. It's not that great.P.S. Those who were expecting nudity, you'll be very disappointed because it doesn't show any.

I ordered this movie on Saturday i paid for overnight shipping and got it yesterday :) I have loved Lady Death since the begining. I followed her from Chaos, to CrossGen and back to her original owners hands, at Avatar.I hope this movie revitalizes Lady Death and makes the comic #1 again :) Thus hopefully spawning more dvd releases :)Brent

Service was very prompted I had my dad in about 3 days. It was everything as promised will use again I'm a minute.

More fine details, Blood and war expect more,a little bit more sex appeal ,would have gone a long way.Story left some large holes.