Who hasn't seen the classic scifi novel The War of the Worlds turned into any number of movie, radio or TV program. A classic alien invasion tale that ends rather lamely when the aliens all die due to bacteria infections. When it was first broadcast on radio it caused mass panic among the people listening to it for the first time. Now it's just become a go to alien invasion franchise to be milked dry. Well guess what, it's back once again getting a new lease on life this time in the form of an animated movie. But this time it looks freaking bad ass.

War of the Worlds: Goliath is next in line for the War of the Worlds franchise but unlike many (almost all you could easily say) of it's predecessors it actually looks interesting and bad ass from the initial trailer. This time around the story is being turned into an animated movie that looks to take place a little after the initial invasion and Earth has been able to adapt to the Alien's technology. The time frame for this one looks to be right around WW1 but thanks in large part to stealing the alien tech the WWI military tech is slightly more evolved including a giant carrier Zeppelin, three legged mecha tanks and hello plasma (I think it's plasma) weapons abound. It also gives off that nice touch of Steampunk scifi as well. I found this little snippet that gives a better idea of the plot.

It looks like it'll be out on DVD some time in 2010 and I'll be eagerly awaiting it's arrival. In the mean time you can check out the awesome trailer below.

Finished up this wonderful retro sci-fi anime series this weekend but for the life of me couldn't find any good large pictures to share for the post. Found a lot of great ecchi looking for pictures though but you can do that search on your own time.

Brief Summary: With only six episodes it feels more like a made for TV movie than anything and if it wasn't for the juggling of shows from Netflix I probably could have finished this much sooner than I did but it's still finished. Project Blue Earth SOS is a lot like Hardy Boys meets Flash Gordon. You have two young boys with genius level intelligence that are the focus of stopping an invading army of Aliens bent on taking over the world. Throw in some potential love interests, the Flash Gordon type soldier and a group of super secret agencies with all sorts of wonderful retro weapons and rockets all in the fight to save the Earth.

The twists and of course there will be twists is that the aliens are actually evolved experiments from one CRAZY scientist who wanted to populate space. They started off looking like one of girls and ended up evolving into insectoid like humans. The reason they are invading Earth is not only to take it over but to find some scientific formula that would enable them to blend with the regular humans and extending their lives.

My Opinion: This would be a great series for Saturday morning cartoons if it was longer (well minus the killing and stuff though) it has great action the leading roles are all young people and yeah it has a good plot even if it's a pretty standard aliens take over the world affair. The twists definitely make it more interesting. I also love the retro sci-fi technology and weapons. If you like that sort of thing than this might be right up your ally and now that all three disks are out it should be pretty easy to get all six episodes watched in a weekend even from Netflix. I enjoyed it and honestly I think my dad would as well since he grew up with all that retro sci-fi tech.