Mobile Suit Gundam - The 08th MS Team (Vol. 4)
by Yoshiyuki Tomino
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Actor: Brian Drummond, Michael Dobson, Shûichi Ikeda, Tôru Furuya, Ward PerryDirector: Yoshiyuki Tomino
Writer: Yoshiyuki Tomino
Producer: Kenji Uchida
Producer: Satoru Matsumoto
Producer: Takayuki Yoshii
Writer: Hajime Yatate
Writer: Hiroyuki Hoshiyama
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-02
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Bandai
Movie Reviews of Mobile Suit Gundam - The 08th MS Team (Vol. 4)
Movie Review: Great Climax to a Great Series
Summary: 4 Stars
Mobile Suit Gundam is a classic of the giant robot genre, and has always been closer to science-fiction than other shows that treat the robots as superheroes. "08th MS Team" is the culmination of the military/science fiction approach. For the first time we see the Gundams presented as complex machines that can not only be damaged, but break down and suffer mechanical problems. The heroes are the average soldiers who have to pilot these vehicles in the One Year War, and they can make mistakes too.
Shiro Amada is the protagonist, and he's older and a little more mature than Amuro Rae was in the original series. He's full of angst, but that's because he's met and fallen in love with an enemy mobile suit pilot and he's suddenly realized that the Zeons and the Federation aren't as different as he thought.
The animation has come a long way in the sixteen years or so since the first Gundam show, and it's even a big step forward from "Stardust Memories" only a few years earlier. The movement is fluid, and the design and artwork is excellent. Throughout the series Shiro and his team get stuck in some complicated ethical situations, but in the penultimate climax -- "The Shuddering Mountain, part I" -- they have to face a Zeon ace pilot, and it's quite a spectacular event.
Previous Gundam shows have usually concluded that war is bad, but necessary. "08th MS Team" dares to ask if it really is necessary after all.
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