Movie: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

“In the year 2065, the next great assault against an invading race of phantom-like aliens is about to be launched. Dr. Aki Ross, a brilliant young scientist, races to find the invaders’ secrets, not only to save the planet, but herself as well after her body is infected by alien particles. She teams up with the prestigious Deep Eyes military squadron, led by her old friend Grey Edwards. But as Aki, her mentor Dr. Sid, and Grey work toward a peaceful end, the scheming General Hein devises a plot to eradicate the aliens in one swift, destructive blow…even if it destroys the Earth right along with them. Written by H2F”

  • Release Date: 11 July 2001 (USA)
  • Run Time: 106 min
  • Country: USA , Japan
  • Genre: Animation , Action , Adventure , Fantasy , Sci-Fi , Thriller
  • MPAA: Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence.

Tagline: Unleash a new reality

Trivia: After shooting and initial animation wrapped, completed scenes were fed to Square Pictures’ custom and ( or less) homemade “render farm” computer network (which consisted of 960 individual Pentium III-933MHz workstations) and processed into single frames. During this rendering process, the raw animation had the textures and extremely fine detail added by the network cluster. Each frame has twice the resolution of a high-definition TV signal and contains 10 megabytes of data.

Goofs: Continuity: After Aki removes the phantom particles from Gray, she picks up a canister that’s hovering in the air, when she originally placed it on the table further away.

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