Dead Space: Aftermath

The plot is generally interesting, following the very fun ship-gets-taken-over-by-monsters formula. As well, the 2D animation for the first three characters' memories were great and meshed very well with the grotesque violence. However, the last character's 2D animation seemed to be a bit disconnected, completely removing the most horrifying features of the necromorphs and reducing them to generic monsters. Even worse was the 3D animated segments that interlace the entire film: they're an eyesore. To think a film so ugly could come out in 2011 is upsetting.

Overall this is a fairly mediocre film. It's short, under 80 minutes, so it's not a waste of time even if you hate it. Dead Space: Downfall is much better even though it's 3 years older. The plot is more cohesive and so is the animation style, a very important aspect.

While there can be some complaints about the plot in Aftermath (mostly regarding repetition), it's reasonably decent, and the biggest complaint is the visual aspect. The film is divided into multiple parts and each is made differently - some with 2D animation and some with 3D animation. The 3D is completely awful despite the lighting (inexcusably worse than cutscenes from some PS1 games) and the 2D is weird in the last portion (not objectively BAD, but the style isn't fitting and heavily conflicts with previous sections). Most people would probably rate this as a 7 or 8 if Aftermath used the first part's 2D animation throughout.

If you're a fan of Dead Space it's probably worth watching Aftermath, but I wouldn't recommend it; I'd recommend Downfall instead. It's not amazing, but it's much better than Aftermath in all aspects.

Dead Space: Aftermath, is a prequel to, Dead Space 2, and a sequel to, Dead Space: Downfall.

The story is about a group of survivors that are taken in and interrogated where people want to know about the artifact they discovered.

The voice acting and the 2D animation were good. But everything else, was bad.

The CG animation was terrible, the story wasn't that good and the movie was mostly boring.

In the end, you're better off playing the video game's or watching, Dead Space: Downfall.

The 2D animation looks great in this film, and it pairs well with the grotesque nature of the story and it's hyperviolent contents, but then there's this awful... AWFUL 3D animation to represent the present day, and it's so, so, so, so, bad. Just an eyesore. I don't know who's idea that is, or what kind of budget constraints may have forced the team's hand, but the results are terrible to look at.

Dead Space: Aftermath (2011) is a movie in my DVD collection that I recently watched again on Tubi. The storyline follows a lost space craft and a rescue ship that is sent to investigate. Shortly after arriving onboard the missing ship it's determined nothing is wrong with the ship but everyone who was onboard is missing. Can the rescue team find the survivors and figure out what happened?

This movie is directed by Mike Disa (Space Dogs) and contains the voices of Christopher Judge (The Dark Knight), Ricardo Chavira (Piranha 3D), Gwendoline Yeo (Star Wars: Clone Wars), Curt Cornelius (NCIS) and Graham McTavish (The Hobbit).

The animation for this is a bit uneven with the people just being okay but the infected, action scenes and people in their gear look amazing. I will say the animation and weapons are better than the previous film. The initial storyline of the father chasing his daughter is excellent. The infected imitating the non-infected is very well done also. The ending is entertaining and the movie has an Event Horizon feel to it in a lot of ways.

Overall this isn't perfect but is an entertaining animated science fiction/horror picture. I would score this a 6.5-7/10 and recommend seeing it once.