This is the story of Earth's last hope. It is the year 2200 and humanity has only one champion left: the Yamato.
The space adventure that follows the ship and it's crew across the galaxy is the long awaited live action version of the classic animated series Starblazers. It has great special effects, good - but tiny- sets and young actors. I have no idea what they were saying, because my copy had no subtitles.
The special effects are impressive, both in quantity and quality. The visuals of outer space are mind blowing, even if a little monotonous. There are scenes that rely entirely on CG and they work well. There are also scenes that mix CG and actors and they are also very good.
Talking about the actors, they all look a bit unsure of themselves and not really in character, but I suspect the script didn't give them much to work with. All I could see was a lot of shouting and posturing.
The sets are good and they look right. At first. The problem is that as the movie progresses it becomes painfully clear that they only had a tiny amount of real estate to work with. There simply is no room to do anything. Even though this is a - supposedly - huge space battleship, the overall impression is that of a tiny submarine: crammed and overcrowded. To be clear, this is no Enterprise. And when compared with Battlestar Galactica, the flight deck of that ship looked far more impressive.
The directing is childish and the camera doesn't move very much. It is always front and center and I suspect this has something to do with the tiny sets.
Space Battleship Yamato. Great special effects but... not much else. 5/10.
The space adventure that follows the ship and it's crew across the galaxy is the long awaited live action version of the classic animated series Starblazers. It has great special effects, good - but tiny- sets and young actors. I have no idea what they were saying, because my copy had no subtitles.
The special effects are impressive, both in quantity and quality. The visuals of outer space are mind blowing, even if a little monotonous. There are scenes that rely entirely on CG and they work well. There are also scenes that mix CG and actors and they are also very good.
Talking about the actors, they all look a bit unsure of themselves and not really in character, but I suspect the script didn't give them much to work with. All I could see was a lot of shouting and posturing.
The sets are good and they look right. At first. The problem is that as the movie progresses it becomes painfully clear that they only had a tiny amount of real estate to work with. There simply is no room to do anything. Even though this is a - supposedly - huge space battleship, the overall impression is that of a tiny submarine: crammed and overcrowded. To be clear, this is no Enterprise. And when compared with Battlestar Galactica, the flight deck of that ship looked far more impressive.
The directing is childish and the camera doesn't move very much. It is always front and center and I suspect this has something to do with the tiny sets.
Space Battleship Yamato. Great special effects but... not much else. 5/10.