Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa

August. 24,2006      PG-13
Rating:
7.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Munich, Germany, 1923. Two years have passed since Edward Elric was dragged from his own world to ours, leaving behind his country, his friends and his younger brother, Alphonse. Stripped of his alchemical powers, he has been all this time researching rocketry together with Alphonse Heiderich, a young man who resembles his own brother, hoping to one day find a way back home. His efforts so far had proven fruitless, but after lending a hand to a troubled gipsy girl, Edward is thrown in a series of events that can wreak havoc in both worlds. Meanwhile, at his own world, Alphonse Elric ventures deeper into the mysteries of alchemy in search for a way to reunite with his older brother.

Romi Park as  Edward Elric (voice)
Rie Kugimiya as  Alphonse Elric (voice)
Toru Okawa as  Roy Mustang (voice)
Megumi Toyoguchi as  Winry Rockbell (voice)
Miyu Sawai as  Noah (voice)
Michiko Neya as  Riza Hawkeye (voice)
Kazuko Kato as  Dietlinde Eckhart (voice)
Hidekatsu Shibata as  Fritz Lang (voice)
Masane Tsukayama as  Karl Haushofer (voice)
Rikiya Koyama as  Rudolf Hess (voice)

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Reviews

ManiakJiggy
2006/08/24

This is How Movies Should Be Made

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Sexyloutak
2006/08/25

Absolutely the worst movie.

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Cleveronix
2006/08/26

A different way of telling a story

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Edwin
2006/08/27

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

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Brandin Lindsey
2006/08/28

Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa is a 2005 Japanese anime based on the Fullmetal Alchemist series and manga. The movie is a direct follow-up of the series and gives resolution to many of the conflicts that remained at the end of the show. The story follows Edward Elric, a young alchemist, stuck in a parallel world and trying to find his way home. Driven to be reunited with his friends and family, Edward must face new adversaries who also want to travel to his home-world, but for much more nefarious reasons.This movie is a fan feast, with characters brought back from the series along with answering a lot of the questions we were left with at the end of the show. Full of fun action scenes, great animation, some funny moments, and a story with a surprising amount of depth, Conqueror of Shamballa is a great movie to top off the series. The story ties into real-life history, making the story all the more enjoyable. The movie also ends strong with a very exciting climax.Despite this, Conqueror of Shamballa suffers from a common problem with anime: melodrama. Over-the-top, obnoxious personalities occasionally contrast from the serious story line. Another problem with this movie is that it does not stand alone. You must watch the series, otherwise you're just seeing the last chapter to another story. This prevents outsiders from enjoying this anime. Also, while fun for the most part and having an exciting final act, the movie is boring and drags on through the second act.Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa is a fun movie overall, and a must-watch for any who enjoyed the series. With a great story and plenty for the fans, watching this movie is a perfect way to finish the series. If you have not yet seen the show, come back to this anime later. You're meant to know the events from the series and this movie builds on that. The series is excellent and will be well worth your time.

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WakenPayne
2006/08/29

There are massive spoilers ahead for the show, if you haven't seen it - I would suggest watching it, it's probably the first 10/10 I've given a show in years, I'll also say you probably will be extremely lost in this review regardless. Well, if you're like me and thought the ending of after about 15 hours of the show ended terribly with Alphonse looking for a way to bring his brother back from beyond the gate, learning nothing from his entire experiences on the show because they wiped his memories and having one of the best sibling relationships ever conveyed in a TV Show ending with them separated across worlds and Edward still having a prosthetic leg and arm that looks too advanced for the technology back then and asking no questions about it at all among many other things. Here, this is the ending for those that pretty much said "WHAT THE F#CK!!!!!" to it, I'll say the ending in general is passable but underwhelming.Edward casually tells our world's version of Alphonse (I'll get to that later) about his exploits across the gate and ensures that yes, it was where he came from. When going to a carnival Edward saves a psychic gypsy from the ever-growing Nazi's but the Nazi's go full-on comic book super-villain when they decide to walk through to the world Edward is from to conquer it and bring back whatever weaponry they have so the Nazi's can take over the world. Meanwhile Alphonse (as in Edward's brother) is a trained alchemist looking for a way to get through to the other side of the gate to get Edward back.Okay, the story is very convoluted and... well, dare I say terrible? I'd say this is passable if you're a fan of the show but if you haven't seen the hours and hours and hours of the 2003 show beforehand, this would be about as easy to follow as a moth in a snowstorm. I'll also say that the whole other versions of the same character in the show popping up makes no sense to me. It just seems like service to the fans to say "Hughes is in this, and so is Edward and Al's mom, Alphonse and pretty much every character that dies makes an appearance in this movie." I'll say seeing the relatively minor characters make an appearance is very good because it gives a much better moment of closure than the show did. I also might not call the real world counterparts service to the fans because the dead characters seemingly have the opposite personalities that are in the show and they do NOTHING with it! And while I'm on the subject I don't really like the new ending of "They're in pre WWII Germany hanging out with gypsies but at least they're together"... To me that is not satisfying.Onto the compliments, the animation is much better here than at any other point in the show, it looks so good. The same with the voice acting as well, it's basically top notch. I'll also say if you are a fan of the show like I am than there are moments of drama in here that work so well. I love the scene where Edward says he has to pilot the Nazi-zombie spaceships (no... really, I said I don't like this movie's plot!) back through to the real world and destroy the portal from that side is really well done seeing Alphonse's reaction to it. If you think too hard about scenes like that however, it doesn't really work (especially considering Edward was the only one who could open the damn portal from that side! Whoops!).So... If you're a fan of the show this is a step down. I will say because of my love for the show and it ending in a way that was less awful than the show itself, it's a guilty pleasure of mine. I am glad I saw it but hearing the fan community be polarized on this movie is hardly surprising to me. I can see why some people don't like it but for me, I actually do.

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partyearth
2006/08/30

I'm all prepped to start FMA: Brotherhood on Hulu, but I have to get this review out of the way first. I wasn't expecting anything legendary when I started watching this movie, but I was relieved I didn't have to let the old series go right away. This movie is awesome! It has a bunch of things I liked about the FMA series (Mustang being awesome, Ed wisecracking during fight scenes, and HUGHES OMG), and combined it with new ideas (World War 2, for example). I would recommend it to EVERYONE who watched the FMA series. I realize people seemed to REALLY hate this movies's ending, but I was fine with it (I wasn't until Al came with him that I was really OK with it...). It gave me a sense of closure I didn't have before about the series. And I liked Noah a lot for some reason (am I the only one who noticed that she looked like rose??).9/10

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jori_ripple
2006/08/31

Fullmetal Alchemist is one of my favourite manga series of all time, written and drawn by the brilliant Arakawa Hiromu and published monthly in Shonen Gan Gan. So, I was expecting the movie to make up for the lacklustre, morbid anime series. Unfortunately, my expectations were not met.The movie picks up where the anime left off, with Edward trapped in post-World War II Germany. He's found an alternate version of his younger brother, Alphonse, and is staying with him in his flat. Around this city are several other look-alikes, including alternate versions of Fuhrer King Bradley, Maes Hughes, and Hughes's wife Gracia.So far as I could tell, Alternate King Bradley is searching for a dragon so he can help his crazy Riza Hawkeye-looking employer open the gate to Edward's world, and that's about where the plot seemed to disappear. From there onwards, the movie seems to get itself muddled in complicated dialogue and poetical, nonsensical statements, as well as the depressingly large number of plot holes. The ending in particular annoyed me; Edward Elric's choice to return to Germany, abandoning his girl Winry seems so completely out of character and a pointless gesture of idiocy to boot. As well as the bit about Al somehow appearing on the other side---the half of the ship he was standing on fell to the bloody earth! There was no WAY he could have jumped that gap, not without Edward noticing. Important secondary characters such as Riza Hawkeye and even other main characters such as Roy Mustang are pushed into the background, treated more as props to try to support the sagging plot line of the movie.On the plus side, the fight scene between Gluttony and Wrath is rather enjoyable, if gory, as well as Armstrong's shenanigans in Lior. Even if the plot is hackneyed and mildly confusing, at least the meaning in the movie is fairly obvious; humans fear what they cannot control. The lady who opened the gate feared Edward's alchemical world because she didn't understand it. Also, the animation is very well done, as well as the voice acting (in the Japanese version, anyways), and the music (composed by Michiru Oshima) is undeniably beautiful.Overall, it's worth tracking down a copy of Shamballa if you enjoyed either the anime or the manga, just to say you've seen it. I wouldn't buy it, but I'd at least borrow a copy from a friend.

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