THE GOOD (And the reason it gets this vote): good CGI. The Yamato crew has the right looks, those who watched Japanese movies surely recognized many faces. The uniforms are cool. A couple of nice scenes.
THE BAD: I watched the whole production, serial and movies, and I can say that they took the WORST of the first two seasons and mashed it up in an incomprehensible garbage. The acting is totally lame, considering the actors: I've seen more emotions conveyed by Michael bay's TRANSFORMERS 3 (need to say more?!). The battle scenes are unbelievable: the Cosmo Tigers had to fight for dear life, and those were great-looking battles, while here a couple of fighters can take down a whole Gamilas fleet?!? Where were those pilots during the war for Earth????? The voyage to Iskandar took the better half of one year, here it looks like it took barely a week. What made the first season so emotional was the sense of this countdown to doomsday. 'Hurry up, Yamato, it's only 265 days before the Earth is doomed!' Abraham's Enterprise had it harder, guys! Though of course the astronomy has evolved since 1974, and Pluto couldn't be considered a full-sized planet as depicted 40 years ago, the lack of the battle to end the Gamilas base in the solar system dulls up the movie. I like the idea of Yuki being a more hard-ass babe, it's more modern, but seriously! The gal in this movie is cardboard-cut! her so-called 'love story' with Godai/Wildstar is something made for the sake of it, it has no premises and no development at all. The budget was poor and it shows: is that a battleship or a cramped submarine? Not to mention that they used THE SAME SET for Okita's first ship of earth defense and the Yamato's command bridge. Sheesh!
THE UGLY: Nothing could have been more spectacular than showing the binary system of Gamilas and Iskandar. Take that away and you rape half of the original script. there is no Starsha: She's the beautiful queen of Iskandar who gives the Earthmen the Cosmo DNA to clean Earth...and only NOW, at the end of the movie, we discover the cleaner is a sort of superpower hidden inside Godai?!?!? Why do all this voyage then?? Oh, yes, to die en masse like on the finale of season II, and in even a more ridiculous way. and finally (because I got not enough room to list the horror in its fullest details), The Gamilas... ARE. YOU. SERIOUSLY. KIDDING?!?!?!? Dessler was the archetype of the 'honorable enemy', witty, cruel, but capable of complimenting its adversaries, stubborn but never crazy, loyal to an ideal. A tragic figure that fought a war to find a new home, a creature like us (despite the blue skin), forced to fight for survival...and there is NOTHING of that in this pale excuse of a movie! Heck, even Prince Zodar was an interesting character in season II, while we have a 'Dessler' who is a funny-looking, dull hologram, and the gamilas as faceless 'Aliens' drones.
yes, total destruction of the ship at the end was the best solution, and the song that came with the credits will make us remember NEVER to go beyond renting this horror. Long live Yamato (the anime!)
THE BAD: I watched the whole production, serial and movies, and I can say that they took the WORST of the first two seasons and mashed it up in an incomprehensible garbage. The acting is totally lame, considering the actors: I've seen more emotions conveyed by Michael bay's TRANSFORMERS 3 (need to say more?!). The battle scenes are unbelievable: the Cosmo Tigers had to fight for dear life, and those were great-looking battles, while here a couple of fighters can take down a whole Gamilas fleet?!? Where were those pilots during the war for Earth????? The voyage to Iskandar took the better half of one year, here it looks like it took barely a week. What made the first season so emotional was the sense of this countdown to doomsday. 'Hurry up, Yamato, it's only 265 days before the Earth is doomed!' Abraham's Enterprise had it harder, guys! Though of course the astronomy has evolved since 1974, and Pluto couldn't be considered a full-sized planet as depicted 40 years ago, the lack of the battle to end the Gamilas base in the solar system dulls up the movie. I like the idea of Yuki being a more hard-ass babe, it's more modern, but seriously! The gal in this movie is cardboard-cut! her so-called 'love story' with Godai/Wildstar is something made for the sake of it, it has no premises and no development at all. The budget was poor and it shows: is that a battleship or a cramped submarine? Not to mention that they used THE SAME SET for Okita's first ship of earth defense and the Yamato's command bridge. Sheesh!
THE UGLY: Nothing could have been more spectacular than showing the binary system of Gamilas and Iskandar. Take that away and you rape half of the original script. there is no Starsha: She's the beautiful queen of Iskandar who gives the Earthmen the Cosmo DNA to clean Earth...and only NOW, at the end of the movie, we discover the cleaner is a sort of superpower hidden inside Godai?!?!? Why do all this voyage then?? Oh, yes, to die en masse like on the finale of season II, and in even a more ridiculous way. and finally (because I got not enough room to list the horror in its fullest details), The Gamilas... ARE. YOU. SERIOUSLY. KIDDING?!?!?!? Dessler was the archetype of the 'honorable enemy', witty, cruel, but capable of complimenting its adversaries, stubborn but never crazy, loyal to an ideal. A tragic figure that fought a war to find a new home, a creature like us (despite the blue skin), forced to fight for survival...and there is NOTHING of that in this pale excuse of a movie! Heck, even Prince Zodar was an interesting character in season II, while we have a 'Dessler' who is a funny-looking, dull hologram, and the gamilas as faceless 'Aliens' drones.
yes, total destruction of the ship at the end was the best solution, and the song that came with the credits will make us remember NEVER to go beyond renting this horror. Long live Yamato (the anime!)