FULL METAL PANIC FUMOFFU VOL 4

Actors: Tomokazu Seki, Jason Douglas, Satsuki Yukino, Tomoko Kaneda, Christine M. Auten
Directors: Don Rush, Yasuhiro Takemoto
Writers: Yasuhiro Takemoto, Fumihiko Shimo, Mike Yantosca, Shouji Gatou
Producers: John Ledford, Mark Williams
Language: English, Japanese
Studio: Adv Films
DVD Release Date: October 18, 2005
Run Time: 75 minutes

The second season of Full Metal Panic comes to an appropriately nutty conclusion. The Yakuza hit men Kaname encountered in episode 4 return: they work for the father of her friend Ren. Their inept family gang is losing its turf to a pack of upstarts, so Kaname brings in Sousuke to train them--as the giant plushie Bonta-kun! The filmmakers spoof all the clichés of military movies: they have the "recruits" sing the Marine marching chant "Everywhere we go..." in "Fumoffus." Sousuke is delighted with the performance of the armored Bonta-kun suits and can't understand why more arms dealers don't stock them. All three episodes provide the special blend of slapstick comedy and grudging romance that made Full Metal Panic a hit on both sides of the Pacific. Watching the end of the series is a bit like having a friend move away, but a third season is reportedly in the works. (Rated TV PG V: comic violence, nudity) --Charles Solomon

Here it is the full-on, all-out-crazy finale to Full Metal Panic? FUMOFFU! And it seems that EVERYONE has gone completely mad! First, a laugh-out-loud yakuza war brings gangster stereotypes to life, risks the lives of Kaname and Sousuke, and enlists an unlikely army of Bonta-kuns to save the day! Next, there’s a turf war on the school campus, and it’s nerd against nerd, in an ill-inspired contest to see which group of misfits can seduce the most girls! And finally, it’s scandal, scare, skin, and screamin’ hilarity – as a whole classroom of students discards common sense... just before they unwittingly discard their clothes! It’s a fitting finish to a frenzied frolic in full-metal frivolity – and you definitely don’t want to miss it!