The first half is a solid thought experiment - what if the events of the first episode of Mobile Suit Gundam happened a bit differently, how would that affect the rest of the series? It's exciting to see a mix of the old & new as many familiar moments from the original series suddenly take big swerves. This momentum could have sustained an entire movie, and I wish it did! The most exciting moments of this entire experience are the scenes…
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Lupin the Third: Angel Tactics 2005
A rather lethargic Lupin outing. Angel Tactics can't even squeeze much juice out of Lupin and co facing off against an all-women gang that includes counterparts to each of them. There's this particular kind of rough early 00s style to the action, where it's weightless but not ridiculous enough to be carried by its style. And it's pretty wild that an anime movie from 2005 would have the garish digipaint look of something made half a decade prior. Like with…
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island 2022
Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island is a perfectly watchable movie that never quite justifies its existence.
To be clear, I'd normally never ask a movie to justify its existence but the backstory behind it is more interesting than the movie itself. Presumably if you're reading this you know at least the basic details but if you somehow haven't the very abridged version is; Cucuruz Doan's Island is a middling episode of the original Mobile Suit Gundam tv series that…
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Baton 2009
Comes off as more of a proof of concept with a patchwork structure than something meant to stand on its own. It has a lot of big ideas, but not the resources to execute on them so it just throws them out there. It's just hard to say a lot about Baton because it's so lacking in connective tissue that the few nice individual moments don't cohesively come together as a whole. The most entertaining part is the first segment,…
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