Mamoru Oshii's legendary anime film returns in a stunning new edition remastered by Oshii himself. All the original animations are reproduced with the latest digital film and animation technologies, including 3D-CGI. Set in a re-imagined Hong Kong.
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I own the original Ghost in the shell and when this came out on Blu-Ray I figured I would check it out. To my extreme disappointment the new 2.0 has done only 1 thing right and that is successfully butcher a great movie. The new CGI draws away your focus from the story, the new voice are OK but they redid all the sound effects and got them all wrong. A tank is crushing the leads robotic head and breaks some tough metal goggles and the sound of them breaking is comparable to if you snapped a toothpick in half. Along with the new CGI come slight changes to the story line. Instead of driving in a surveillance truck they fly a helicopter now. All in all I would not recommend this as a purchase for anyone. What I WOULD like to see is the original film put on Blu-ray without all the fancy new stuff they put in it. >:(
What's great about it: Its Blu-ray
What's not so great: bad new special cgi that take away from the movie