Planetes: Complete Collection
by Goro Taniguchi
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Actor: Ai Orikasa, Kazunari Tanaka, Satsuki Yukino, Takehito KoyasuDirector: Goro Taniguchi
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 650 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Bandai
Movie Reviews of Planetes: Complete Collection
Movie Review: A good series but flawed.
Summary: 3 Stars
If you like Hollywood Horse-feathers, I guess this is well done. Frankly, I think it should have been darker and grittier. The 'all you need is love to salve the hearts of the disenfranchised and dead' message is worthless. The dialog and plot are worthless for the same reasons. I have the same problem with this series that I have with most horror: if you have the antagonist down... kill him, cut his throat, put a bullet in his head and scatter his limbs to the four winds. If someone just slaughtered your friends: philosophical questions about what you should do now are answered. Period. Kill anyone responsible. The garbage hand-wringing regarding the cost of exploring space is specious at best. We're all dead no matter what may come, and all of humanity is dead if we don't get off this planet.
Planates is a well animated series; however, the annoying characters and their contrived moral confusion are not worth watching. I fail to believe that our descendants will not be smarter than this series. All or any one of us would not react in the fractious manners displayed in this series given the scenarios presented the characters.
Oh, gee, people are dying! They already are, and we still explore space. Oh, people are abused: that's not going to stop. And the abused and disenfranchised are not going to cease belonging to that group. I suppose that my dislike of this series is related to my love of its potential.
Planates could have been a great, gritty scifi series on par wiith Ghost in the Shell. But Planates springs for sappiness when GITS works toward: grit, plot, and characterization.
I consider this worth watching with serious reservations.
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