5/5 What did you excpect a bad Cowboy Bebop??
  by S. West
Well I really dont think that a bad Cowboy Bebop is possible my friends. The Characters are all there Spike,Jet,Faye,Ein and my favorite(as well as many others)Ed. If you liked the show or loved it in my case you will definatly enjoy this movie and if you havent seen the show well then buy this movie watch it and if you like it I would highly recomend buy the show.

5/5 Are you living in the real world?
  by J. Alford (Atlanta, GA. United States)
Since the original TV series was a such a phenomenon, even for non-anime fans, there just had to be a movie follow-up to it. Although like most films based on a TV anime, this one is a midquel taking place between Episodes #22 & 23 of the series. Usually, a movie like is either a sequel or it doesn't happen in the context of the series at all. This is a little rare to have a movie be like a "lost episode" to the TV series.

Set mostly on Mars, Spike and the Bebop crew are hunting for a terrorist named Vincent who plans to use a deadly nano-virus to wipe out everyone on the planet. Vincent was part of a team of soldiers from a previous war on Jupiter's moon of Titan that were subjected to military experiments in nanomachine warfare. This technology was later reused by a pharmaceutical company done in secret for the Martian government. Vincent got a hold of the virus, and is going to spread it all over the planet during a Halloween parade. Spike makes a reluctant alliance with the sexy Electra who is Vincent's old lover and an agent of the shifty pharmaceutical company, and she conveniently happens to have the vaccine to the virus that Vincent gave her without her knowledge. Together along with Jet, Faye, and some retired pilots, they manage to stop Vincent's plan. After all, Spike couldn't possibly die...yet!

The movie employs the same badass animation that made the series so great. Truthfully, it's only a little above the quality that the series had, which proves it's greatness to begin with. Everyone of the regulars gets some screentime, including the three old farts who frequently showed up in every other episode. Edward & Ein have a few magic moments too(beware of angry transvestites!). The climax is awesome too, even more so than Spike's final battle with Vicious. The soundtrack by Yoko Kanno is exemplary, with some hip opening and closing themes. This film also sports some of the best aerial dogfighting in an anime since Macross Plus. If you have the series box set, then you've gotta get this to complete your collection.

4/5 Cowboy plague
  by R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
Take cowboy, add sci fi, New York and animation with a hip music back ground and you have a hit movie with nonstop action.
The fatalism and dead end psychology of the villain
with a government that is everybody's enemy makes the
bounty hunters the heroes without a cause.
I don't think they are really trying to be funny, but
as lot of the dialog and action is so old and over done that
you find yourself laughing at the black humor of the
eastern nihilism mixed with cowboy macho.

5/5 Pleasantly Impressed
  by S. Abmeyer
I have loved the Cowboy Bebop Series for quite some time, and then of course, the movie came out. I was really hesitant about it, wasn't sure if I was going to like it. I typically don't like movies after the series. But I loved it. I definitely needed to have it to complete my collection. If you're a fan, you'd love it. If you're not a Cowboy Bebop fan, you've probably never seen any of it, and I strongly suggest familiarizing yourself with it.

5/5 excellent
  by Tyler R. Sherman (winthrop maine)
this is a great movie with all the traditional voices and the feel of the original series. enjoyable, action packed, all around good hour and a half of my life.