I gotta say the ending to this is.........(spoilers sort of)


Probably why I like the FMA Brotherhood so much more, I mean Brotherhood has a Happy Ending for the most part, while this movie is just, really sad, I mean Ed makes it back to his world only to turn around and leave again after being back for less than a day. I mean sure Al goes with him to our world in the end, but still Winry being left alone never seeing her closest friends again and The Brothers being stuck in our Alchemic-less world, around the time of WWII is just really sad, it was just a depressing way to continue the cliffhanger ending from the original show.

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This whole movie sucked. Besides Brotherhood being a vastly superior show, the Star of Mithos was also a better movie.

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I agree. This ending makes too many of the endevours from the show seem fruitless.

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Well, Alphonse got his body back and his memories too, and the Brothers are together again. Wrath reunited with his mother. Roy seems to have gotten his fire (spiritual and alchemaic) back after his revenge. So, it ain't as big a loss as it appears.

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True but The brothers ending up on the other side of the gate and leaving Winry completely behind, I find appauling. I also DESPISE that Envy got his revenge on Hohenheim. I don't like that Izumi died (especially since Hohenheim saved her life in the manga)/ It was good but left a bad taste in the mouth.

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I see Hohenheim's death rather differently. Envy doesn't seem to do slow torture (judging by his quick killing of Hughes(...) and Edward), and yet he lets Hohenheim live for days. Also note Envy's eye when Hohenheim tries to close his mouth to crush himself. It shivers for a moment. The message I'm getting from this scene is reluctance. Envy's isn't initially intending to kill his father; torture him, yes, but not kill him. Hohenheim has been Envy's life-goal. He has nothing else; he's stuck in this world, stuck as a serpent, Dante is gone, and in poetic irony, after spending centuries pawning and mopping the floor with humanity, now he's the pawn/mop of the humans. Life pretty much sucks for the Hughes killer. Hohenheim is all he has left. He's gone, his reason for existing is gone as well. Hohenheim's assisted suicide shows that killing him is hollow victory for Envy (not to mention insulting; Hohenheim is doing it to help Ed and Al). It's a further note to Anime1Envy being Edward's doppelganger- the Edward who let his father issues consume him.
I felt Izumi's death was realistic. She had her body problems, and with Dante gone, she could no longer get the medicine. Having her still living after two years would have looked rather ridiculous.
Tell the truth, and I know I'm in the minority in this, but I actually felt good about the Brothers being in our world. I dreamt many a possibilities of what they might get here (airplanes, baseball, movies). So it never bothered me. Yes, it's sad for Winry, but she seems to have accepted it. I also liked that Gracia and Hughes got their happy ending.

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