This is a bad bad bad bad bad bad bad film.I mean, what happened to all the powers?All the cool stuff.However , my main query is this.
At the end of the film, when Guile goes to rescue Blanka, and meets Dhalsim, WHERE HAS DHALSIM'S HAIR GONE?It was there all along.It was there a few minutes before.All of a sudden, he's now sporting the cue-ball look.WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!?!?!?!?!?!?

What of the Street Fighters' newfound first or last names? Practically all throughout the course of Street Fighter history, the identities of the participants have not be entirely divulged. However, this is not the case in the movie. The creators/writers turn right around and have Ryu with the last name Hoshi, Sagat with the first name Viktor, and Balrog with the last name Suzuki, to name a few. Speaking of Balrog, since when did he become a "good guy?" Also, Sagat is deemed as being the leader of the Shadowloo Tong. First of all, Sagat has never been ahead of this organization; it has always been M. Bison. And secondly, its title is solely Shadowloo.
One would think Sagat would recognize Ryu from their apparent past confrontation, during which time Sagat sustains Ryu's Shoryuken and bears the scar to this day. Though, Sagat has no vendetta against Ryu nor the slightest idea as to who he is, and I doubt someone would forget the face and name of an individual who had previously combatted you. Consequently, a scar upon Sagat's chest is in eye's view at the conclusion of the film (i.e., when he opens the trove and when he later scatters M. Bison's pseudo money).
Allow me to make one thing perfectly clear. "Jimmy" Blanka and Lt. Charlie are two separate individuals! "Jimmy" Blanka is of Brazilian heritage; Lt. Charlie is of English heritage. "Jimmy" Blanka had not developed the way he did from mutation nor euphenic experiments; Lt. Charlie was slain by M. Bison nearly a decade prior to Street Fighter 2, on which this particular film is based might I add.
My most prominent complaint is how pusillanimous and feeble they portray M. Bison. We are referring to M. Bison here, the covert, sadistic, conquering, psychic-powered killing machine. He channels clairvoyant forces from within himself to levitate, propel forward, backward, downward, and upward, and afflict high-voltage injury. Yet, he is frequently avoiding intervention with any of the antagonists and is easily pummelled by Guile in this movie. By the way, Guile has always been ranked as a lieutenant presumably in the Army, not a colonel in the Navy.

...Sagat sustains Ryu's Shoryuken and bears the scar to this day. = ...Sagat sustains Ryu's Shoryuken[,] and [he continues to] bear the scar to this day. Typo.

In Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie there were some blots. In the long run, though, it was much better than the live-action movie released earlier. The errors include the following:
1) M. Bison commands Sagat to retrieve Cammy and Vega. Yet, this subplot leads nowhere. In fact, what ever became of Cammy by the conclusion of this film?
2) Much of the characters were not implemented to their fullest. For example, Dee Jay appeared as nothing more than a local nightclub's bouncer. He did not even combat anyone.

I also noticed how there was some reference to Street Fighter Alpha in that Ryu and Ken paired up against M. Bison, which is a feature in the aforementioned video game. Furthermore, the younger versions of Ryu and Ken resembled the images depicted in Street Fighter Alpha.

Rats! I had hoped this might be a thread about The Streetfighter, the early 70s Japanese martial arts film starring Sonny Chiba as Terry Tsurugi.

It was the lack of accuracy (i.e., the least they could have done was switched the roles of Dee Jay and Balrog) and optimal throng of unarmed one-on-one conflicts and the Jean-Claude Van Damme focal point and glorification that integrally ruined this film. Additionally, M. Bison required much more of a backbone and fighting edge. Quite frankly, this may have been one time that having no definitive plot or appropriate dialogue would have made this as boffo as Mortal Kombat.

Umm..okay, I'll just say it was bad. REALLY BAD!!!

Here's what I think would've made this film better:
1)Give the fighters their powers back. Just think about the film with special effects from "The Matrix".
2)Recast Guile and M. Bison. Sorry, as good as he was, Raul Julia was just not convincing as M. Bison. They could've found someone better than Van Damme to play Guile. (Why did an American soldier have a Belgian accent?)
3)Do something about the scene where Chun Li, E. Honda, and Balrog try to kill Bison and his party with a truckload of explosives. There was NOTHING to indicate that they couldn't just leave the tent.

There are only two good scenes in the entire movie:

1. Van Damme doing the speech that ends "Now who wants to go home, and who wants to go with me?!"

2. The scene with Chun Li and Bison where she explains that Bison killed her father. Bison's response, in particular.

Raul Julia was the only good thing about the entire movie, even if the writers did make Bison a wimp.

I also noticed how there was some reference to Street Fighter Alpha in that Ryu and Ken paired up against M. Bison, which is a feature in the aforementioned video game. Furthermore, the younger versions of Ryu and Ken resembled the images depicted in Street Fighter Alpha.

Actually, it's the other way around. It was the Street Fighter 2 Animated Movie that inspired the people at Capcom to make Street Fighter Alpha (known as SF Zero in Japan). And that 'Ryu and Ken vs. M. Bison' (who is known as 'Vega' in the original version) hidden feature is taken from the movie. There is, if I recall, a magazine article where the creators talk about how after they made the movie they realized they could do a lot of stuff they could still do with the game, and most of that stuff wound up in SF Alpha/Zero.