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List Price: $29.98 Our Price: $19.99 You Save: $9.99 Features • Anamorphic • Animated • NTSC • Surround Sound • Widescreen In Theaters : 05 January, 2007 DVD Release : 06 February, 2007 |
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Robotech - The Shadow Chronicles Movie description Created for the 20th anniversary of the popular Robotech continuity, The Shadow Chronicles Movie picks up where 85-episode series ended. In 2044 A.D., humanity is at war with the alien Invid, who occupy most of the Earth. The Invid ruler takes her people to "a higher plane" to escape the Children of the Shadows, aliens dedicated to the destruction of any race that possesses Protoculture. (Illogically, they fear the power of Protoculture, but they can destroy its users.) New characters and ones from the original series battle the Children of Shadows until a cliffhanger ending that makes it clear a sequel must be in production. Although it helped to create the audience for anime in America, the original Robotech was an anomaly: a Japanese show that never aired in Japan. Producers at Harmony Gold edited together the unrelated series Super Dimension Fortress: Macross, Genesis Climber Mospeada, and Super-dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross. The Shadow Chronicles Movie is also an anomaly: an "anime" feature made primarily in the U.S. and Korea. Although they've added lots of flashy CG effects to the space battles, the film lacks the qualities that made the series a hit. Like Star Wars, Robotech used an interstellar conflict as a backdrop for a tale about friendship, romance, and heroism. The filmmakers spend the first half-hour of Shadow Chronicles filling in background material for new viewers; the rest is so packed with exposition and action, there's no time to get to know the characters--or care about them. The movie will appeal primarily to fans of the series and its manifestations in games, toys, novels, etc. (Rated TV PG, suitable for ages 12 and older: violence, alcohol use) --Charles Solomon |
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| I obtained this product on a whim, as I am ordinarily not an anime fan. I often find the genre too obscure.
Robotech - The Shadow Chronicles is an exciting movie for any sci-fi fan, not just anime fans. I enjoyed it immensely. The graphics were superb, a mix of CGI ships and drawn characters. Although, as other reviewers have pointed out, the animation of the mecha is not fluid (and perhaps inconsistent with previous Robotech movies), I actually found the animation to be very -believable-. This version is dubbed in English in a high-quality, natural manner, although in a couple of cases, the English voice actors struggled to speak the whole thought in the time the characters' lips moved. The focus of the movie is on the characters, not the technology -- but that doesn't prevent the movie from including many exciting action scenes. There are an interesting variety of characters and interactions between them, as the characters are of multiple alien races (including one female AI robot). The plot is entirely independent and accessible to a non-anime, non-Robotech fan. If you're a sci-fi fan who likes robots, space battles, and psionic powers, then you will enjoy this movie. This movie is not particularly deep and is at times a little bit cheesy; I can see why it would be a let down for Robotech fans given descriptions I have read of the series. However, as a casual anime viewer and long time sci-fi viewer, I was able to appreciate it a great deal just for what it is. |
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