Ghost in the Shell 2.0

Original title: Kôkaku kidôtai 2.0

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7.8/10

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A hacker known as the Puppet Master is hunted by a female cyborg cop and her partner. This film is a revised version of Kôkaku Kidôtai (1995).

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A hacker known as the Puppet Master is hunted by a female cyborg cop and her partner. This film is a revised version of Ghost in the Shell (1995).A hacker known as the Puppet Master is hunted by a female cyborg cop and her partner. This film is a revised version of Ghost in the Shell (1995).A hacker known as the Puppet Master is hunted by a female cyborg cop and her partner. This film is a revised version of Ghost in the Shell (1995).

Director
- Mamoru Oshii
Writers
- Shirow Masamune
- Kazunori Itô
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.8/10

16K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Mamoru Oshii
Writers
- Shirow Masamune
- Kazunori Itô
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Batou
(voice)

Kôichi Yamadera

Togusa
(voice)

Tesshô Genda

Section 6 Department Chief Nakamura
(voice)

Masato Yamanouchi

Foreign Minister
(voice)

Shinji Ogawa

Diplomat
(voice)

Yoshiko Sakakibara

The Puppet Master
(voice)

Kazuhiro Yamaji

Garbage Collector A
(voice)

Shigeru Chiba

Garbage Collector B
(voice)

Maaya Sakamoto

Motoko Kusanagi (young)
(voice)

Steve Bulen

Section 9 Staff Cyberneticist
(English version)
(voice)
…

Gina Connell

Additional Voices
(English version)
(voice)

Stephen Davis

Diplomat
(English version)
(voice)

Dorothy Elias-Fahn

Richard Epcar

Batou
(English version)
(voice)

Michael Forest

Old Man
(English version)
(voice)
(as George Celik)

Meg Hamilton

Additional Voices
(English version)
(voice)

Christopher Joyce

Togusa
(English version)
(voice)

Director
- Mamoru Oshii
Writers
- Shirow Masamune
- Kazunori Itô
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Trivia
A Basset Hound recurs several times in the film: in a commercial, on the street in flyers on the wall, in the garbage man's picture. The Basset Hound has no significance symbolically or thematically - director Mamoru Oshii just likes Basset Hounds.

Goofs
When the Section 9 members discuss about the "host shell" female cyborg, there's a shot with the brain hologram out of focus in the foreground. In this shot, the original (1995 movie) hologram is shown, instead of the new CGI one.

Quotes
Batou: Chief, you ever question the ethics of the neurosurgeons who monkey around inside your brain?
Section 9 Department Chief Aramaki: They undergo psychiatric evaluations, especially those in security. They're subjected to a stringent screening of their personal lives. Of course, the ones who check are only human.
Batou: I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it.

Connections
Edited from Ghost in the Shell (1995)

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Featured review

9/10

Reimagined and Still a Good Film...

Basically, if you've seen the first one, you've seen this one. Lines are the same, acting may be a little less wooden given how much the cast has played these same characters by now, and any faults the first one had, this one has.

That aside, the movie is gorgeous, more so if you've seen the original a few times. Not quite Innocence, but close. The new CG scenes aren't disjointing as they are only in places one would expect them, and the new dubbing is solid.

Even though one can tell the cg was added as an after thought, it doesn't detract from the score, which is redone. From what I could tell, it is all newly recorded and rearranged, especially the theme, and is a step above and beyond the original score. Sound effects are great if subtle as well.

The movie is still extremely sensory minded, and that is what this is for. It is gorgeous to watch and to listen to, but does not act a replacement for the original. They both have a place on the same shelf.