First of all pardon my English, not my mother language.
The first thing that comes to my mind after watching this movie is a "Southpark" episode, specifically the one in which S.Spielberg and G.Lucas rape (and I mean literally rape) Indiana Jones.
My feeling about this movie is basically the same, the creative team behind this movie raped a World Icon of Japanese animation.
The characters in this movie have a total lack of empathy, you cannot possible care less about any character, whatever happen to them is of no importance in terms of feeling. Most of the characters are pale and dull, and seems they are speaking the lines without any emotion attached to them, beside being overacted roles which deliver the usual "japanese performance" of looooooooooooooong cheesy lines. (anyone said Eli Wallach in "The Good, the Ugly, the Bad"?.... - If you are going to shoot, shoot, do not speak, just shoot!").
Kimura Takuya delivers "his usual performance", nothing great, but the rest of the crew is plain and even silly, including the venerable Captain Okita. The movie relies heavily on the "mental image" created by the audience based on the original anime characters and do not make any effort on creating new psychological features that could give emotional deep to the characters, they are just soulless caskets.
The plot is basically the same as the original anime version, but focuses completely on accomplishing a mission rather than on "the journey". They go to Iskandar by crossing the galaxy, jumping a couple of times to warp speed and fighting the Gamilus's forces, but that's it, plain and simple. There is no "Odyssey" attached to it, there is no "costly enterprise" full of sacrifices and self-immolation that built characters and join the crew as "band of brothers".
The director made a terrible job in terms of "time management".The trip seems to have taken no more than 2 days, instead of the original 1 year, there is no pace, no tension after one could say "Oh, my God the clock is ticking, the earth is gonna die, c'mon Yamato!". In addition, the design does not present anything relevant or vaguely original, everything seems plastic and fake, people do not sweat, bleed, or cry, and to make things worst..."insectoid aliens", for god sake!
The original Anime series delivered a compelling "conflict" by making the aliens a Humanoid race whose planet is dying and need to colonize other planet. In this movie the Aliens are the insectoid kind who are "super dupper evil", that's it, bad for the sake of being bad.
And the ending... the ending...c'mon! Where did that children come from?, Maybe I'm missing something but, Do I have to assume he is the fruit of a "5 minutes relationship"?",Do I have to assume that Love is just 2 persons Kissing each other? Even Padme-Anakin's relationship is more credible!
I could spent hundreds of line complaining about how the creative team behind this movie raped the original series and gave us, the loyal fans to the Yamato Universe, the biggest disappointment since Dragon Ball Evolution. What's next, somebody is going to take a cr#p on Macross?
The first thing that comes to my mind after watching this movie is a "Southpark" episode, specifically the one in which S.Spielberg and G.Lucas rape (and I mean literally rape) Indiana Jones.
My feeling about this movie is basically the same, the creative team behind this movie raped a World Icon of Japanese animation.
The characters in this movie have a total lack of empathy, you cannot possible care less about any character, whatever happen to them is of no importance in terms of feeling. Most of the characters are pale and dull, and seems they are speaking the lines without any emotion attached to them, beside being overacted roles which deliver the usual "japanese performance" of looooooooooooooong cheesy lines. (anyone said Eli Wallach in "The Good, the Ugly, the Bad"?.... - If you are going to shoot, shoot, do not speak, just shoot!").
Kimura Takuya delivers "his usual performance", nothing great, but the rest of the crew is plain and even silly, including the venerable Captain Okita. The movie relies heavily on the "mental image" created by the audience based on the original anime characters and do not make any effort on creating new psychological features that could give emotional deep to the characters, they are just soulless caskets.
The plot is basically the same as the original anime version, but focuses completely on accomplishing a mission rather than on "the journey". They go to Iskandar by crossing the galaxy, jumping a couple of times to warp speed and fighting the Gamilus's forces, but that's it, plain and simple. There is no "Odyssey" attached to it, there is no "costly enterprise" full of sacrifices and self-immolation that built characters and join the crew as "band of brothers".
The director made a terrible job in terms of "time management".The trip seems to have taken no more than 2 days, instead of the original 1 year, there is no pace, no tension after one could say "Oh, my God the clock is ticking, the earth is gonna die, c'mon Yamato!". In addition, the design does not present anything relevant or vaguely original, everything seems plastic and fake, people do not sweat, bleed, or cry, and to make things worst..."insectoid aliens", for god sake!
The original Anime series delivered a compelling "conflict" by making the aliens a Humanoid race whose planet is dying and need to colonize other planet. In this movie the Aliens are the insectoid kind who are "super dupper evil", that's it, bad for the sake of being bad.
And the ending... the ending...c'mon! Where did that children come from?, Maybe I'm missing something but, Do I have to assume he is the fruit of a "5 minutes relationship"?",Do I have to assume that Love is just 2 persons Kissing each other? Even Padme-Anakin's relationship is more credible!
I could spent hundreds of line complaining about how the creative team behind this movie raped the original series and gave us, the loyal fans to the Yamato Universe, the biggest disappointment since Dragon Ball Evolution. What's next, somebody is going to take a cr#p on Macross?