There's a very uninteresting story behind the purchase of this movie.  I was taking a poop when my dad convinced me to go to Best Buy and look around.  Seeing as I had lots of homework to do and it was due the next day, I went along.  When we got there, I tricked myself into believing that the whole trip would be a big fat waste if I didn't get something, so I ran over to the DVD area like a schoolgirl hopped up on goofballs.  Seeing as how Ninja Cadets wasn't there anymore and everything else was either bad or part of a long series, I started to cry.  Suddenly, a little girl came over and tugged on my sleeve.  She then pointed up at a DVD case that was put on the shelf so that you couldn't see the title.  With a sense of wonder, I slowly pulled out the case and we both gazed at the cover, it was Slayers: The Motion Picture.

          Hmmm I thought to myself as the little girl grasped at the DVD, I remember reading a review from Lord Carnage that placed this movie slightly higher on the goodness scale then the 1st season of The Slayers, which I owned on DVD.  Suddenly, the little munchkin managed to get a grip on the case and began to whine at me to let go so she could have it, saying that her big sister hid it there and had gone to the latrine (heh heh) to powder her nose.  This little cutie pie was supposed to make sure no-one took the DVD.

          I was suddenly overcome with rage and gave the little girl a swift kick to the face, rendering her unconscious.  A gasp sounded behind me I whirled around and was confronted with the little girl's older sister, a voluptuous 18 year old with skin-tight jean shorts and no shirt!  She then rushed to me and began to grope me in ways that I cannot describe! 

          Oh wait no well, the part where I went to Best Buy and ended up with Slayers: The Motion Picture is true, that is, unless you have no trouble imagining me being groped by large breasted 18 year olds, either way works for me.  Anyway, now I suppose I should start the review.

          I'm pretty sure this movie takes place after the OVA's, unfortunately, having not seen them, I don't really know if the OVA's take place before or after the TV series.  I'm thinking before.  Okay, the basic story to this movie is that Lina and Nahga go to an island to utilize the hot springs and end up fighting demons and talking to old men.  The story actually is much better than I make it sound, but since I don't really care about expanding on plot developments as much as other more serious anime reviewers do, let's just say that there are a bunch of bad guys that Lina and Nahga get to kill.

          The animation in this movie is extremely good?  Everything is animated very, very smoothly and the drawings are all very detailed also.  As with the TV series, all the spells look forking great.  A problem I did have with this movie is that since everything did look so great, when some of the bad guys wandered in, looking pretty crappy compared to everything else, it was a bit of a let down.  That's another thing, aside from the fact that some of the bad guys didn't look too great, in my opinion, they could've at least made up for it by being cooler.  I mean, I know that Slayers is a comedy type show, but when one of the bad guy's powers is to make you think you're back in your homeland... ugg.... I just wish there'd been more epic type magic battles, instead of Lina or Nahga disposing of the current bad guy with just one or two spells.

          While Slayers was quite entertaining, it wasn't as fun to watch as the TV series (in my opinion).  I think this is partly because all we had for characters was Lina and Nahga, while in the TV series they had a whole bunch of people who kicked ass.  So, if you don't particularly like Lina or Nahga, well you're shit outta luck pal (I was kinda SOL myself, while I do like Lina, my favorite characters are Zangulus and Zelgadis).

          The worst thing about this movie for me was the voice actor they got for Lina.  Holy crap, it only took about 15 minutes for me to get thoroughly pissed by just listening to that voice.  Luckily, I can switch it to Japanese Subtitled and everything is better, everyone even makes more sense and the movie doesn't seem so corny (the main demon stealing phrases from Sylvester the Cat).  All in all, a good movie.  I'm just sad that I got my hopes up about it because Lord Carnage said it was so good, oh well.

          Oh yeah, almost forgot, Nahga has really floppy boobs, just in case you were wondering.

Genre - adventure/fantasy/comedy

Animation - The animation was really fucking good, lots better than in The Slayers (1st season).  The overall detail was also a large step up from The Slayers.

Sub vs. Dub - sub is definitely better

the Good - Great animation, lots of zany stuff, pretty funny, entertaining characters, good story, they didn't skimp on the spell effects and didn't pull a ROLW (Record of Lodoss War) on us (only about three different spells)... I'm fairly positive there's other stuff too

the Bad - Lina's voice (dubbed), disappointing bad guys, not-so-great battles, sometimes it got somewhat corny

Overall - A good movie, but not as much fun to watch as The Slayers, which had better battles, more characters and a better plot (I realize when I'm saying this that Slayer: The Motion Picture is a stand alone movie that's about 75 mins long while The Slayers is about 600 mins long).  Well worth watching.