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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Animated • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2002 DVD Release : 25 October, 2001 |
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Revolutionary Girl Utena - The Movie description This movie version of the Japanese television show takes the entire series plot and streamlines it into 80 minutes, pushing the characters into an alternate universe. For those who have seen the series, the action and characters will feel familiar: Utena learns to be a duelist and fight against a righteous faction at her school. But director Kunihiko Ikuhara revises the series in details both small (the duels take place in a rose field, not a stadium) and large (the bizarre finale). The gender-bending relations between Utena and Anthy--a friendship in the series--now take on lesbian overtones. The film will certainly be remembered for its finale as Utena becomes a racecar--literally. The end result should polarize fans yet bring new anime enthusiasts onboard. (Rated 13 and older; mild violence and nudity) --Doug Thomas |
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| Having watched the 39 episode series, read several essays, and considered the show at length, I would have to say that overall the Utena movie is a disappointment. Actually, my first exposure to Utena was the movie, back in 2002, which made no sense to me at all and which I dismissed as ridiculous. It took five years before I was willing to actually look at the series, which is brilliant and amazing. I then watched the movie a second time, after the TV series and, while it made more sense, it is still ridiculous.
The first thing I thought of after seeing the movie the second time is that Kunihiko Ikuhara was not able to resist "Evangelion-izing" Utena, with the same sad results. To highlight some obscure part of the original creation or to extend it is some way would have been reasonable, but to try to compact it into 80 minutes in any meaningful way is sophomoric. I will say that the resulting mashup does come across as adolescent, especially the sexualization of the characters, so the alternative movie title (The Adolescence of Utena) is at least appropriately named. As with other reviewers, I will agree that the music and graphics are superior to the series. However, if I wanted to view a Utena music video, there are many on YouTube that are far better. Perhaps the best thing I can say is that the movie allows you to hang out with the characters from the series in new and unique ways, as long as you do not require that to make any sense. I love symbolism and allegory, but stringing them together in a linear fashion does not tell a story and is not necessarily worth the emotional or real-time investment, unless your looking for some easy fan-service. Overall, I am glad I saw the movie, since it clarifies some things from the series (that the Academy is more prison than school, that Touga did have potential to be more than just a playboy, that Shiori was more of a witch than Anthy ever was). But it adds nothing to one's appreciation of the series, which is the true masterwork. I highly recommend you invest in watching the series - it will shatter your preconceptions about gender roles and the insidious romantic mythology we all participate in. |
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