Talk:Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie

Netflix Dub

 * As part of their 2008 deal with Starz Entertainment, Netflix made the first completely uncut version of the film available on demand, which includes the unedited shower scene featuring Chun-Li, as well as both uses of the word "fuck" not available in previous U.S. releases. This version of the film uses Animaze's English dub, with the option of playing with the original Japanese soundtrack or the Western soundtrack.

Can anyone confirm that this is accurate? I've found no sources to the contrary, weather this version was uncut completely or had the Japanese soundtrack. If, perhaps, someone captured this version or has proof it existed, please say so here. For now, I've edited this section to not include this data.

Ashuraou (talk) 22:41, 8 May 2015 (UTC)

Spanish dub
Why don't you wait to delete that info until AFTER a Spanish counterpart for this page is created? --Ryanasaurus0077 21:29, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Table
I created the table for the cast. It took some time, but the page looks a lot neater now, doesn't it? No actual data changes though, that's all correct. Harley Quinn hyenaholic 21:51, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Goofs
I performed the following edits to the Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie article:


 * Chun-Li is from China but is an Interpol agent with an American accent in the English version of the film. [This is not a goof. Characters not of an English-speaking background are frequently given English langauge accents in movies. Obviously, this is taken further English-language films which, story-wise, do not take place within the domain of the English language (an American movie about Musketeers in France, for example) where all acting occurs in English and actors typically speak with American or English accents, or accents matching their characters' origins. Dee-Jay's and Cammy's American accents, however, can be considered errors. Sorry to have to drill the point, but the person who included this as a goof obviously has no clue as to what he's talking about].

And:


 * In the games, Guile is tattooed on both shoulders with an American flag. This is missing in the movie. [Not a goof, a change in character design, probably to make animation easier. By the logic employed to consider this a goof, Bison's more muscular appearance is also an error.]

My intention was that someone would remove the said goofs and my text. However, [User:Ultim87|Ultim87] simply removed my comments and returned the text to as it was initially. The 'goofs' listed are not goofs. Has anyone seen "The Man in the Iron Mask"? Does John Malkovich have a French accent? Has anyone seen Beauty and the Beast? Do all the characters have French accents? Native English-speaker accents are given to characters because the speech will sound more natural.

The second point listed as a goof, Guile's tattoo, is a character redesign, not a goof. It would be quite difficult to animate an American flag distorted on the contours of someone's body, constantly changing angle.

The two 'goofs,' if they are to be listed in the article at all (and I believe that only comment about Guile's tattoo could warrant any inclusion) should be included under 'trivia.' When wikipedia has inaccuracies like this, it really makes it hard to take the site seriously. I find myself having to take everything I read on here with a grain of salt, or having to verify facts from other sources. -- Holymolytree2

Guile's Tattoo's
In Trivia, it states Guile has the US Flag tattoo on both shoulders in the game, while in the anime he does not. This is false, since the game could only mirror animations when turning characters from left- to right- facing. This would be the same as claiming Sagat had either both eyes, or two eyepatches. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.247.67.19 (talk) 23:53, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Other wrong things in Trivia
Yes, besides that it also states "In the movie, Guile flirts with Chun-Li. In the game, Guile has a wife". Well, they must have confused the animated movie with the live action movie, because here Guile just sees Chun-Li as a kid.

Another thing about the ultimate fight of SF1: The way it is written gives us the impression that this "animated movie" has changed the way Ryu had won. We must remember that, by the time this movie was made, directors followed very careful all story aspects of all existent SF games of that time (and until 1996 it was how Ryu had won the SF1 tournament)...

...what they should say is that years later, with the appearance of Alpha2 (there are only two games (Alpha2 and 3) that retconned this fight -> which was improperly won by Ryu, because he lost the battle (witch should be already over) and after Sagat win the match (Sagat was already the murder of Dan's father), Evil Ryu knocked him out, being Evil Ryu character the final SF1 champion (curiously a character that didn't exist in SF1... and the true creators didn't even imagined him to exist).

The problem is that if Capcom decides to retcon this fight again we will have to constantly change this trivia aspect like the movie had, once again, made a mistake, which is not true.Newsblade (talk) 13:22, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Why are 2 actors credited for the same role in the English version?
? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kareem Said (talk • contribs) 07:02, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help, idiots. It's been two years and you still haven't answered the question. If it isn't answered tomorrow I'm removing the actors in parenthesis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.80.104.95 (talk) 02:04, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Zangief vs Blanka
Hope nobody minds, but I added the Zangief vs Blanka match to the story. 63.161.203.11 (talk) 20:27, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Gouken's name
ok somebody really has to stop the removing the name, when it is a fact that is ryu and ken's masters name. and therefore should stay under where it is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dragonmaster88 (talk • contribs) 19:21, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Because Ryu and Ken's sifu was never named in the film. The name "Gouken" was not fully canonized when the film was being made and it seems he was originally going to be called "Goutetsu" in the film. I don't have source for this, but its obvious when Ryu and Ken's personal data are shown on Bison's monitor, which displays "Goutetsu" as the name of their teacher. Either way, the character is officially credited as "Sifu/Master" and that's how it should stay. Jonny2x4 (talk) 22:54, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Uh, I hate to break the news to you, but Ryu and Ken's master has been officially revealed to be named "Gouken", so it doesn't matter if he was named or not at the time. It's the same as the Return of the Jedi page, which refers to the at-the-time-unnamed Emperor as Palpatine. It's very similar to 2 + 2, so I guess if it applies there, it applies here as well. 79.154.110.40 (talk) 16:56, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

"Reception" section...
Can we have one here please? It really should. ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ (Ταλκ ) 03:21, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Edit dispute
Some unregistered user has been reverting to this particular revision of the article for no particular. I seriously don't understand his rationale, but I'll give mine in the meantime.

In the editor's preferred version, the lead section contains statement Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie was well received among fans of the games, and is generally considered to be far superior to the live-action film which followed it. Regardless of the veracity of the statement, this goes against Wikiproject Films' style guidelines, which encourages for the lead section to as factual as possible and devoid of weasel statements such as "praised by fans" or "award winning".

The editor's preferred version also contains a "legacy" section, which to me seems very trivial at best or, seems to composed of mainly original research at worse. Perhaps it could be rewritten in a format that doesn't like random list of miscellaneous things.

Other than those issues, I seriously have no idea why the other user insists of reverting back to that version of the article, especially at the expense of other users' contributions.Jonny2x4 (talk) 06:43, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Japanese LaserDisc cover
The cover for the Japanese LaserDisc has the name of the film as "MOVIE Street Fighter II", which actually makes sense if a person speaks those languages. This, according to a Japanese artbook with whole movie documented via storyboard and sketches, also leaves the title simple to SUPER Street Fighter II (their spelling, not mine). Also, the whole article can use a once-over, and it reads more like a fanatic website than an encyclopedia article. (And for those whose religion is Street Fighter, lay off. There's people out there who have never heard of Street Fighter series or have forgotten it.) Apple8800 (talk) 17:57, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Bison v.s. Ryu & Ken fight scene
Ken and Ryu were able to defeat Bison because towards the end of their fight because he decided to fight them without fully utilizing his psycho-power, hence his phrase "I'll fight you on your own level!" (English version) and then his removal of his cape (via pulling off the chain around his neck). It was only then that either of the two heros were able to land any blows. The plot section should be updated. fabs8611 02:46, 6 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.170.40.78 (talk)

Bryan Cranston as Fei Long?
Does anybody have a source for that? This feels fishy. NeoChaosX (talk, edits) 08:09, 22 September 2013 (UTC)