Individual Eleven compilation movie

Picked it up and watched it yesterday, assuming it recently came out in the English dub.

Quickly compared the voice acting with the Laughin Man comp video. Much better this time, lady who voices Motoko is much closer to McGlynn? and sounds more into it. Only bad job was the guy who voices Batou, sounds half Rambo half lunkhead.

Anyhow, overall the movie is an absolute failure. The best moment of the series (in ep 19 the Major getting yelled at by Batou after the new guy gets killed) isn't there, and everything that happens before ep 20 in regards to the main story line is basically gone. Don't see how anyone can get into this who isn't familiar with the 2nd gig series.

The scenes where the Major and Kuze are trapped are present in full, but without having the hospital scenes from when they were kids also present in full, it just doesn't work. It seemed to me that in the context of the entirety of the series, I picked up that Kuze did in fact realize that the Major was the girl from the hospital while under the rubble, but it's impossible to sense that in the compilation movie.

Section 9 doesn't *do* anything in the movie except for the Major, it's all talk, it's all Gohda and Kuze and Aramaki/Prime Minsiter.

I bought it as a diehard, the Laughing Man comp actually works but the voice acting is just awful.