Mobile Suit Gundam: The Movie Box Set
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Actor: Artist Not ProvidedDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 441 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Bandai
Movie Reviews of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Movie Box Set
Movie Review: Lies, damn lies and special features claims
Summary: 4 Stars
Some may look at this rating of four stars and think, "What? He doesn't think that the Gundam Trilogy is well-nigh perfect? What in Zeon's name is WRONG with him?" But don't worry, I'm not giving the MOVIES four stars (for the record I love these movies - to me they make a better space movie trilogy than Star Wars - let the flaming commence!) Let me clarify:
I'm not going to review the actual movies here (at least, not that much) seeing as how they have already been reviewed in depth by better writers than myself. Rather, I will review this movie set as a *product*. Meaning I am going to review the DVDs themselves.
And the DVDs are perfectly adequate. The video and audio are good (especially for almost-thirty year old films that have been made from a 1979 TV show). Unlike other reviewers I am not completely incensed by the new Dolby 5.1 remix of the movies' soundtracks (apparently these discs have the same audio as the previous collectors edition box set). Except...
That is all that is available. And if that is what was promised (as per the previous release of these titles) I would feel alright. But on the back of the handy-dandy-less-shelf-space-taking case the Features & Extras listed include (and I quote) "Original Japanese Mono Track (Movie II & Movie III)" as well as "Japanese Stereo Audio" for Movie I (Which I'm guessing is different from the 5.1 which is listed separately). Bandai, why do you lie to me? Not to mention the blurb in the box at the bottom which says "English and Japanese Audio." There is no English dub track. Lies, lies, lies (Lies, I tell you!).
The other reason I am docking this one star is a lack of real extras. Come on, not even the original theatrical trailers? Boo, Bandai, boo.
In conclusion, I give the Mobile Suit Gundam trilogy box set four stars because, while it has great actual content (a space war that is a real space WAR - with real people dying real deaths, with real drama and tragedy - and not a video game with cookie-cutter-black&white characters, fantasy physics and faceless minions being slaughtered by the truckload with no feeling whatsoever), it does not include the features that it claimed it would have. For which Bandai should have a space colony dropped on them.
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