The story line is a little different then the actual game and the language is a bit forced. They used old time language which means its heavy in old English. But the voices are perfect and don't change from what they should be.The worst parts that they changed the facts of who sowed the cross on Dante's chest. It meant more when Dante was the one that placed it on him self. It showed he was willing to look at his sins where when it was placed on by some supernatural creature, then it shows he is forced to look at what has happened. It is a little bothersome that they had to change the whole reasoning for that.The art style changes a bit threw the show like each circle was drawn by a different person, and I think it's because there were way too many people working on this one movie. Each director pretty much got a piece of hell to work with and I guess they never shared the design of the main character with one another because Dante and Virgil really do not look the same though out the show. The only style that feels like it belongs is the first one, mostly the reason why I had kept watching. The first one shows a style much like a American Comic Book character. Normally I didn't like that style, but I like it for this one. It has a rather nice idea of a hero who had to overcome everything for the one he loved.As the story keeps going, sadly, some of the circles seem to be cut short and its sad because some of the areas could of just excluded a bit to give them equal time.How Virgil acts, it seems that he is trying to make Dante destroy Hell. Take it as you will on that but it's what it feels like to me. For all it's worth, It is a good one even if the art style changes.

I quite enjoyed this animated feature version of Dante's Inferno (An Animated Epic, it says here modestly), but I wouldn't pretend that it was 100% successful. My knowledge of Dante's poem is sketchy, so I can't comment on how closely (or not) this film followed it. I'm even less familiar with the video game which gave rise to this so, again, I can't comment.Taken on its own, the visuals are very striking - impressively so - but they suffer from the fact that multiple animation houses have been used. That was something which worked well in The Animatrix and Gotham Knight, where the standalone nature of the individual episodes facilitates - embraces, perhaps, a diversity of animation styles. Here, a switch of styles loses the continuity which a single narrative requires.The voice performances are not well served by the script: both tend towards the melodramatic at worst and the merely functional at best.Even so, if you are an animation fan and you have a leaning towards the fantastic (and the gory and the mildly sexual) you may well find there is a moderate amount to enjoy here.

I enjoyed this movie, despite the literary and animation flaws mentioned in several reviews. I have no interest in video games and no desire to read the classic tale, but various paintings and quotations from the story have captured my attention for many years (decades):"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here". There have been many classic stories that I somehow never had to read in high-school, but when I have come across them in video form, I want to see what I might have missed. I wholeheartedly agree that the book is always better than the movie, but if not for movies, I might never have enjoyed such classics as Wuthering Heights, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Tale of Two Cities, etc. So it is with Dante's Inferno, a.k.a., The Divine Comedy. I don't know how close to the original story this animated epic is, but after viewing this movie, I have a much better idea of what the story is all about. I don't have to write a thesis on the story, but I could explain the plot to someone, and I recognized many of the character and place names that I have heard, but didn't truly know. **So that's why some narrow-minded old fuddie-duddies used to say the rock band Styx was a Devil-worshiping cult.

Well. I'm pretty sure everybody is familiar with the original Dante's Inferno, the story changed a bit and Dante this time isn't that Dante but a crusader and takes a rather bloody journey into the nine circles of hell. The prologue is drawn by Film Roman, not the best part of the movie but far from the worst.Then comes the only part I enjoyed, Limbo which was drawn by Manglobe, a dark Gothic atmosphere that is lost in the upcoming circles drawn by other studios. It is semi realistic (real world rules with an added layer of twisted fantasy) Dante is a hardened veteran of the holy war seeking to rescue his beloved and nothing more, nothing less.After Limbo you are tortured by Dongwoo Animation, and you literally have to endure hell to watch the movie any further as the upcoming four tiers are simply awful. Just an example, apparently for these Korean folks the Cerberus is a three-headed WORM and not a dog, at least they should have put their facts right. Of course Dante by a miracle became a one-man army slicing through skulls, spines, bones and whole bodies vertically with ease, while his physique suggests the opposite.At City of Dis another Korean studio, JM Animation takes over until the 9th tier. Dante reincarnates again as a super hero but with matching looks this time. The differences between the two studios stop here. There are random explosions when Dante is pushed against the ground or simply when his and a former friend's weapons clash in battle, God knows why.The ninth and last tier as a kind of reward (you would think) for all the suffering of the previous 7 tiers, is animated by Production I.G. Yeah the animation is superb but the story. Despite Dante's vow to God thus imprisoning Lucifer once more he still enters the Purgatory.All in all, the story had some potential but it is ruined by the terrible implementation.Thumbs down.