Based in a video game (Which is also loosely based in "the Divine Comedy" by Dante Aliegheri) which I never played in my life, "Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic" it's a deeply flawed production with a very few interesting elements.
This movie is divided in chapter, each one of them with a different style of animation: However, this is not an anthology film, since it follows in one linear story-line. During the first part of the movie, the animation and the designs keep a good level, but as the story advances, it turns more generic and bland, being not much better than any average anime series.
The same goes for the plot: The elements from the Divine Comedy from Dante gives this movie some level of interest, sadly, those elements doesn't seem to be very well developed, so the internal conflicts of the main character seem way too shallow or forced. The Beatrice character is just plain and uninteresting in comparison with her literary counterpart, being just a typical damsel in distress. And don 'get me started on Lucifer, which here is just merely a stereotypical villain, not so different to any guy from Naruto or some Saturday morning cartoon.
Even the spiritual and historical elements that are added in this story just seem superfluous or being put in order to establish some vague connection with the poem in which the game was inspired. In many ways, this is just another story of a hero that must save her love interest; it is just the setting which gives this some sort of interest. To get it worse, this is not even very funny to watch, being way too heavy-handed in order to enjoyable as a simple entertainment, but at the same time, it is way too banal to be considered as a serious work.
Despite the interesting premise and some few moments of good animation, this film feels just flat and forgettable. It's just neither entertaining nor satisfying enough to be considered something worth watching.
This movie is divided in chapter, each one of them with a different style of animation: However, this is not an anthology film, since it follows in one linear story-line. During the first part of the movie, the animation and the designs keep a good level, but as the story advances, it turns more generic and bland, being not much better than any average anime series.
The same goes for the plot: The elements from the Divine Comedy from Dante gives this movie some level of interest, sadly, those elements doesn't seem to be very well developed, so the internal conflicts of the main character seem way too shallow or forced. The Beatrice character is just plain and uninteresting in comparison with her literary counterpart, being just a typical damsel in distress. And don 'get me started on Lucifer, which here is just merely a stereotypical villain, not so different to any guy from Naruto or some Saturday morning cartoon.
Even the spiritual and historical elements that are added in this story just seem superfluous or being put in order to establish some vague connection with the poem in which the game was inspired. In many ways, this is just another story of a hero that must save her love interest; it is just the setting which gives this some sort of interest. To get it worse, this is not even very funny to watch, being way too heavy-handed in order to enjoyable as a simple entertainment, but at the same time, it is way too banal to be considered as a serious work.
Despite the interesting premise and some few moments of good animation, this film feels just flat and forgettable. It's just neither entertaining nor satisfying enough to be considered something worth watching.