Or as the English dubbed version is being called Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers which will have a limited one night release in Movie Theaters on Sept 24, 09. Of course it's a Fathom event so get ready to shell out $20 for a movie and some oh so special extra fluff to make it seem like you are getting your money's worth. I've never been interested in seeing any of those events just because of the outrageous pricing scheme they have going on but that's not what this blog post is about. Indeed it isn't, as much as I'd like to rant on about Fathom events it's rather pointless really. Besides I have an entire movie to rant about.
I really wanted to like this movie. Really I did. I loved the series when I saw it on [adult swim] and was really looking forward to the movie even after I found out that it was going to be an alternative story line from the original. I mean how could they possibly mess up Eureka Seven right. Oh but they do and in grand style as well. At first the new animation is great and one can see that Renton and Eureka could have been long lost childhood friends turned lovers it's a good story line and it's going along smoothly up until the introduction of the Gekkostate and it's crew. And the movie just falls apart from there.
The cast of characters that you loved in the series well you can forget about them. They all get their personalities stolen and replaced by complete selfish idiots to concerned about using Eureka as tool to (get ready for your Peter Pan references, no I'm not kidding) take the crew of the Gekkostate, who turn out to be zomg super fast aging children, to a place called Neverland where they wont age anymore. Never mind saving humanity from the crazy alien invaders or the harassment of the overzealous military, nope non of that. The Gekkostate is only out to save it's own aging ass. Seriously a what the fuck moment there. And inside of all this they are just making a complete mess of the love story between Eureka and Renton. The story just kills the movie. The music is great as always the animation is just fantastic like always and there are some glimmers of a movie with great potential and it's entirely killed by the crappiest alternate story line ever.
The movie I think could be enjoyable only if you have never seen the original series. Otherwise you'll hate yourself and the series after watching it. I'd probably say that the movie is just fair enough to warrant renting it when it comes out on DVD to check out the English dub version to see if that adds anything to it but other than that this one is a total skipper sadly. Here's the fathom event trailer spot. I so wanted to title this one Eureka 7: Pocket Full of SUCK.
I really wanted to like this movie. Really I did. I loved the series when I saw it on [adult swim] and was really looking forward to the movie even after I found out that it was going to be an alternative story line from the original. I mean how could they possibly mess up Eureka Seven right. Oh but they do and in grand style as well. At first the new animation is great and one can see that Renton and Eureka could have been long lost childhood friends turned lovers it's a good story line and it's going along smoothly up until the introduction of the Gekkostate and it's crew. And the movie just falls apart from there.
The cast of characters that you loved in the series well you can forget about them. They all get their personalities stolen and replaced by complete selfish idiots to concerned about using Eureka as tool to (get ready for your Peter Pan references, no I'm not kidding) take the crew of the Gekkostate, who turn out to be zomg super fast aging children, to a place called Neverland where they wont age anymore. Never mind saving humanity from the crazy alien invaders or the harassment of the overzealous military, nope non of that. The Gekkostate is only out to save it's own aging ass. Seriously a what the fuck moment there. And inside of all this they are just making a complete mess of the love story between Eureka and Renton. The story just kills the movie. The music is great as always the animation is just fantastic like always and there are some glimmers of a movie with great potential and it's entirely killed by the crappiest alternate story line ever.
The movie I think could be enjoyable only if you have never seen the original series. Otherwise you'll hate yourself and the series after watching it. I'd probably say that the movie is just fair enough to warrant renting it when it comes out on DVD to check out the English dub version to see if that adds anything to it but other than that this one is a total skipper sadly. Here's the fathom event trailer spot. I so wanted to title this one Eureka 7: Pocket Full of SUCK.
