This movie continues from where the 50 episode TV series left off. First of all, it is not often that things like this happens. That being, an anime movie based on a TV series that actually has anything to do with the TV series itself. Normally the movie is not related to the stories of the TV show and can be pretty much be thought of as never happening. FMA (as it is called) has a continuation present right here from the show itself. Is it really needed? What can another hour or so add to a 25 hour long series? Nothing much. Just a sense of closure, and yet it doesn't even get closure on all fronts. I mean, the only reason you can say there is closure in this story is because pretty much those characters that needed it died. Everyone else is still left without much closure because they are now unable to fulfill that by the movie's end. The only closure there is in this movie, is to the overall theme of the show itself. The story began with two brothers making a mistake in trying to bring back their mother from death. They kept trying to fix mistakes and being selfish and in this movie the two find that being selfish, even with good intentions, doesn't lead to anything good. So what can you do? Fix it.
I think Edward Elric, one of, no, probably the movie's main character, is realizing this at this point of the movie. You can tell he has grown up, and accepted the responsibility of that. This is what I take from the movie. The story offers great art, story, and a bit of action. I just wish Ed and Winry would be together. It sort of seems they like one another, but neither ever admits to it directly. Plus, yeah, Mustang comes out of his funk, but he was waiting for Ed to come back, if Ed leaves again, doesn't that leave him in a funk once more?
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