Gintama Motion Picture

Gintama is a series that lampoons modern times much like Futurama. Rather than visiting the future to examine the present, Gintama looks to a futuristic rewritten past. Mid 1800's Japan has been brought violently into the future by alien invaders.

Now (not particularly important to the story, but 'now' is probably the late 1860's) things are relatively stable. In Gintama's Edo (an old name for Tokyo) the samurai way is now defunct.

Japanese pop culture, history, and even the show itself are mercilessly exploited for laughs. If you are already an anime fan or have just seen a few mainstream adaptations of popular anime you should have enough of a foothold to enjoy this movie.

The movie itself is a big-screen version of the long-running TV series' Benizakura arc. Benizakura is a powerful and mysterious sword. Former samurai Gintoki (aka Gin-san) is compelled to investigate its misuse because like many heroes, Gintoki has a "higher calling". This gig may just pay his rent for the month (hey, that roof he wants to keep above his head counts, right?).

Gintoki's young Odd Jobs employees Shinpachi and superhuman alien Kagura are left to find out what happened to Gin-san's missing former comrade Katsura. You may ask yourself why Gin-san wouldn't go look for his friend himself, but Gintoki can probably do without the Shinsengumi (special police force) finding out he's friends with a wanted Joui Patriot (rebel).

Long story short: both the Gintama series and movie are a blend of humor, action, and drama. The dub is fairly decent. The occasionally inconsistent name pronunciation may be confusing to newcomers. A small handful of jokes stayed Japanese but lack cultural notes. Overall the dub is entertaining (and earns its age 14+ rating a few times). If you're looking for special features, don't look too hard because there are just credits and previews.

The movie starts out with a few mysteries and ends with more than one action-packed fight sequence. Gintama is a unique combination of multiple genres. This movie mainly focuses on the action and drama part of its full range. Viewers should still get a hint of why this series is highly-rated on anime sites such as My Anime List and Crunchyroll.

This movie is kinda a remake of the Benizakura story arc episodes 58 to 61 gintama seires. For those who are unfamiliar with it, Gintama is a comedy series set in an alternate universe, where Japan is taken over by aliens. It follows the adventures of Sakata Gintoki who is always broke. He works like a mercenary together with two teenagers and does various tasks to make a living. The series are more like a parody of popular anime series and characters. samurai, space technology, aliens and comedy may sound strange, but Gintama is really funny and original. However, the Benizakura arc is probably the most action-packed in the whole series. So even those, who don't like comedy with sci-fi elements, will enjoy the spectacular sword fights.

The Benizakura story itself is kept unchanged. Katsura leader of anti-government faction, has disappeared. Some believe he has fallen victim to a murderer, who targets samurai on the streets of Edo. Gintoki wants to look for his missing friend, but is given a job. He has to find a stolen sword, the Benizakura. While he is searching for it, Kagura and Shinpachi are looking for Katsura. They all face some dangerous enemies and eventually discover a conspiracy aiming to overthrow the government.

The Benizakura arc is awesome and watching it again never gets old. Those, who haven't seen the series, can still watch the movie and enjoy it. The story is easy to follow and the action is good. The movie is Good. The English Dub is Good,shinpachi is one character i didnt like, the voice for him idk, other than him, everyone else was great.

Hoping everyone, fans, buys the movie, so it can sell alot and maybe Sentai Filmworks can consider dubbing Gintama series

Got the movie and seen it with my brother.

My thoughts about the movie: IT WAS AWESOME. AWESOME AWESOME! Just hearing them have english voices makes me over excited. After a only a few days of having this movie, I had already seen it around 9 times.

Here's my review:
With the dub, there were parts were my brother and I finally understood what was happening. We actually found some stuff in the story that we didn't know. Also, I was able to pay attention and catch pivotal moments in the art work and character emotions that was tough to catch when reading subtitles.

Now as for the voices. Some voices did sound a bit odd to me but I got used to them easily. This movie is definitely professional quality tho. There were some mispronunciations but as long as I know who theyre talking about than it's alright. ALso, there is cursing but that's not so unusual for Gintama lol

Kyle Jones did well. There WERE scripting errors that didn't fit the scene, and lines that were given to the wrong character and some lines that were even dropped. I think this could have been prevented if there was more research done on the show. Also, some lines on the movie weren't as funny as I thought it was when it was in japanese, but some lines were even more funny when they were said in English.

Don't let that stop you because this movie is AWESOME. The actors pulled it off.