Title: Mobile Suite Gundam Zeta: A New Translation Movie
Director: Yoshiyuki Tomino
Studio: Sunrise
U. S. Distributor: Sunrise Inc., Right Stuf
U. S. Release Date: May 3rd, 2016
Format: DVD: Feature Films / 3 Movies / 297 minutes
Genre: Sci Fi, Mecha
Age Rating: TV 14
Overall Personal Rating: C+
Synopsis:
The Earth Federation stands victorious, but are they still on the right side?
Universal Century 0087. The Titans, a bellicose faction among the Earth Federation Forces, grows powerful and tyrannical, even using poison gas to suppress a civil unrest. Dissident soldiers from the same military stand against them, forming a resistance group called the A.E.U.G. Kamille Bidan, a civilian student, gets entangled in this conflict when he accidentally steals the Gundam Mk-II and joins the A.E.U.G., running away from his home space colony. Then he begins to fight along with Char Aznable, a former Zeon ace pilot who has infiltrated the Earth Sphere for reasons of his own.
Contains all three Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam compilation films.
Commentary:
Okay, I’m not real sure why there would be a re-release of these films unless they feel as though the original Zeta story was just too long and boring. Or maybe it is just another money grab. Either way it doesn’t make any real sense to make these films. I did enjoy them and I guess that someone not into Gundam might be willing to sit through these rather than the series, but I still have a hard time for more of the same old push by anime producers to crank out these remake films that just shortcut the story just to make a few more bucks.
Overall Grade: C+
Mobile Suite Gundam Zeta: A New Translation could be a great way to have a non-Gundam fan sit through the series without going through the series. I wish I had more positive to say, but this was something very common to have a series truncated into a movie or movies just to milk it for more.
If you are not familiar with Gundam and someone very close to you is then you might want to check this out it might lead to something greater.
