Introduction
In the Conqueror of Shamballa there is all Fullmetal, in fact there is too much of it, we have the sensation, not new by film treated by series(animate or less), that we want close all with the unique “big episode” without to count the loss of the those thin but essential balances that reiterating each time
Anybody has interesting also only distantly for the manga or the anime can't have never heard to talk, at least once time, about Fullmetal Alchemist. The ones which in the last months, instead, have stayed on the moon, them are prayed to stop to read this review, to annul each engagement for the next three or four days, break this pig of clay from the languid eyes and it stay there to fatten on the bracket since too time and precipitate in the nearest regular shop to exit only when you have acquired the DVD that contain the 51 episodes of the animate series wich the feature film "Conqueror of Shamballa" that constitutes the final chapter.
From Amestris to the Germany of the 21'
In the last episode of the series, the steel alchemist Edward Elric, following the law of the equivalent change, sacrifices himself in the tentative to report back his brother Alphonse, disappeared in Portal of the Alchemy after that he has tried in turn (and with success) to revive Edward.
And he finishes so beyond the Portal, from the world of Amestris to that which we live, that has arranged in parallel (with characters with names and different roles), where the alchemy doesn't function but there is the source: the energy emits by the death of the humans.
Alphonse, thanks of the sacrifice of the brother is discovered safe and sound on Amestris, also if in a child body and without memory of the last years. So both the two brothers have succeeded in their aim to save themselves each other and, too living in different ways, they promise that a day meet each other again.
Berlin 1923
This in (only right and extreme) synthesis is the knot from which the film starts that shows to us, after a little parenthesis on the base themes in the form of story. And at the wheel of a car Alphonse Heiderich, the "duplicate" of Al in the our world, which the ex alchemist has linked in the hope to can understand some of more on how return to home. Alphonse Heiderich occupies oneself of rockets, and the his team is granted and used (behind his back) by the members of the Society of Thule, fanatic esoteric in smell of fascism at the search of the lost, the utopia of Shamballa Reign that they believe to be Amestris.
We are a few months by the insurrection of the Führer, who has received a promise by of new arms in change of nails.
The Society will succeed (with the unaware help of Ed) to open a passage to Amnestris and to send a first infantry in armour rout then from the other part (in the city of Reole) by Alex Louis Amstrong and Alphonse Eldric. When Ed notices that he has done and he deletes the alchemy circle, the armours fall from the Portal, and one of these is animate by a fragment of the Al's soul,who finally can embrace the brother in one of the most touching moment of the entire film.
The unsuccessful coup.
After other misadventures, Thule succeeds to open the other portals and to organize an invasione on large-scale. While the army of the two worlds combat themselves between the streets of Amestries on the model of bomber to rockets projected by Heiderich; Dietlinde Eckart, leader of the Thule Society, Ed, Al and the restored to life Roy Mustang fight through transmutations.
At the and Ed decides to sacrifice himself returning in the other world to destroy in definitive way the passage, imposing to his brother to remain there, but who follows however him, hidden in ne of the armour (for the first time "physically").
With the lack of arms that the Thule Society had promised, the coup of Hitler falls giving so the starts, to the new course of the history. In the last scene, the two brothers go on board of the van that is driven by the parallels of the criminal Scar and of the little man Lust, direct toward new adventures.
In Definitive
All that you have just read represent, in the reality, a fleeting overview of the only narrative base line; to tell all in this seat will be resulted excessive and forced, that then is also the final judgement on this Conqueror of Shamballa.
But we go with order one of the prerogative of animate series is that to can weave a rich, and complicate plot on also an elevate quantity of characters , that then will go to retie itself thread to thread during the different episodes.
Obviously the threads must be of quality and, in this sense, Fullmetal Alchemist reveals one of the most precious skein of silk that will be never been product: the characters characterization is splendid and sought (from the historical and the mean point of view), the weep themes treated in mature way, and the mysterious, unusual (for a shonen) all "European" atmosphere must not be discussed. The complex mixture steampunk unravels itself for 51 episodes without problems, animate(other rarity ) from the Studio Bones never recur in "cold" manner at the computer graphic.
What change, then, about all that in the film?
Nothing, except the fact that it is a film, a feature film of 105 minutes and not one or a set of episodes by 20 (minutes). The container, the frame change, but not (unfortunately) the picture.
In the "Conqueror of Shamballa" there is all Fullmetal, in fact there is too much of it, we have the sensation, not new by film treated by series (animate or less), that we want close all with the unique "big episode" without to count the loss of the those thin but essential balances that reiterating each time, that constitute the fascinating of the series to episodes. By this point of view, Shamballa is much similar a what we have seen (unfortunately) in the film (to quote examples noticed to everyone) of "The Simpson" and Futurama.
Then more than a problem of plot, to which we can however twist gently the nose for the bright idea of the parallels characters, especially those already tragically dead on Amestris, the film effort at oncologic level, since it seems not thought to be the end of a glorious (saga) but a speed up repatriate of family (the duplicates of which on top) with the insertion of the new entry (the gipsy Noa ) who isn't did the time to be outlined and of interest as the "old" protagonist. The all is seasoned then on a big scale of woody computer graphic and ad hoc catastrophes only to do scene on the big screen, that is then the all commercial strategy much careful to those producers that prefer "the drillings-which-character-do-you-want" at the good and old manner, maybe not so popular, work quality.
Sho Aikawa © . All rights reserved
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