I am disappointed by Final Fantasy Advent Children. Once again the hard working people at Square have fallen into the trap of no one will notice the plot sucks if the graphics are good enough. Whatever happened to telling a good story? Having a begining, a middle, and an end?

The plot of the movie is that there's a sickness effecting people. But do they go into the sickness and make you see and feel the pain and suffering? No, that'd be boring. Look everyone Cloud's got a sword and he's driving a motorcycle! Cloud's feeling isolated and is withdrawing from the rest of the world. Do we explain why or anything? No, that'd be boring. Let's give him another sword and have he fight the bad guys.

When watching it I kept waiting for the character driven part that Final Fantasy 7 was known for, but it never happened. It was just all 'let's go get the bad guys'. It was totally lame.

But of course the graphics were good.