In watching this film I can see the future–animated stars and animated sequels. The characters in this film were so real that you wondered sometimes if they were graphics at all. The theme of the seven spirits reminded me of The URANTIA Book's teachings of the seven adjutant mind spirits in man and the five in animals.
Again the battle between good and evil carries on–this time to other worlds of time and space where rebellion against God has occurred. And, as an analogy, our earth itself can become very ugly, like the phantoms in the movie, when she erupts into earthquakes, volcanoes, tidal waves, etc. etc.It would be just be just as bad being caught in the center of a tornado as being caught by the phantoms of the movie. Hopefully there will always be the good guys, human mortals or robots, who will go after the bad guys in any form. But someone has to make the good guys good and the bad guys bad.Think about it. Who is the leader(s) of the good guys and who is the leader(s) of the bad guys on this planet?
This movie was real enough to keep me interested, and I usually don't like to see animated fantasy. The graphics technology of this film was the first of its kind. I wish, however, the characters wouldn't have been so stereotypical. I know they were trying to make a point. However all this does is gives actors like Donald Sutherland and James Woods a chance to make more money. Some of the films they've been in lately I wouldn't pay two cents to see, so why use them in a technical masterpiece that could displace the likes of them? I know, with Sutherland there was Catch-22, but there have been few and far between good films since. And with James woods, there was San Salvadore–I think we can stop there. Oh yea, I met James Woods once; he's just as cocky in real life as he is on screen. Why do I talk like this? Because somebody better.
~Van of Urantia*MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America
