HallowScream - Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)

        Happy Halloween, everyone. Chuck here, and we've reached the end of another HallowScream. To finish out this month, I'm taking a look at something that not everyone will see as a Halloween movie, but a few do. This is my review of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, released in 2001, and featuring the returns of Steve Blum as Spike Spiegel, Beau Billingslea as Jet Black, Wendee Lee as Faye Valentine, and Melissa Fahn as Ed. 

        Okay, so a few days before Halloween on Mars, Faye sees an unknown terrorist blow up a tanker truck while she's chasing another bounty. The blast unleashes a dangerous pathogen that kills many, and causes many others to fall ill. After the attack, the Martian government offers up a bounty of 300 million Woolong for the capture of the culprit. And, of course, the Bebop crew wants the bounty. Upon investigating, two things are discovered. First, the culprit may, in fact, be a man named Vincent Volaju, who was presumed to have been killed on Titan, but actually survived a test of the pathogen due to being immunized, but he was driven insane by amnesia and hallucinations. Second, the pathogen is actually a nanomachine, which is an illegally manufactured bioweapon from a pharmaceutical company called Cherious Medical. 

       Spike, meanwhile, has a run-in with an agent of Cherious named Elektra Olivo, and he attempts to capture Vincent, who tosses Spike off of the train they are on, and then unleashes another cloud of nanomachines. The only survivor of the train attack is Elektra, who was also immunized when she was in a relationship with Vincent, and she gives a blood sample to her friend at Cherious to create a vaccine. But, Vincent's true plan is revealed: he seems to fill a series of Jack-o'-lantern balloons for the Halloween parade with nanomachines, which will kill everyone on Mars. Spike, Faye, and Jet work together, using a set of crop dusters and the planet's weather control machines to cause it to rain, to spread the vaccine on a planetary scale, thus ensuring the nanomachines are useless. Immune to the nanomachines, Spike fights Vincent to a standstill, and Vincent is shot and killed by Elektra. And, with the insanity in the past, the crew of the Bebop gets back to their regular lives. 

       Okay, so as a fan of the Cowboy Bebop anime, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Seeing the Bebop crew back together on a fun mission set well before the series finale was an absolute treat, and having it center around a celebration of Halloween on Mars was also something else. Of course, hearing the iconic performances of Steve Blum as Spike Spiegel, Beau Billingslea as Jet Black, Wendee Lee as Faye Valentine, and Melissa Fahn as Ed was fantastic, as these four are just a lot of fun together. And, I found the concept of unleashing a plague brought on by deadly nanomachines to be pretty terrifying, adding to the feel of the Halloween season. This is an overall fun time for fans of Cowboy Bebop, and I give this movie a rating of 5/5. 

         Alright guys, this is Chuck signing off. Have a great Halloween, and I'll see you guys in the next review. 

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