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Urusei Yatsura - Movie 2: Beautiful DreamerRating:
Release Date: 01 September, 1998 Retail Price: $29.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: |
Urusei Yatsura - Movie 2: Beautiful Dreamer Reviews
A philosophical comedy that's not really funny.
Urusei Yatsura the Movie 2 is supposed to be a good one. The plot is intelligent and original enough, but there is something very wrong with the execution.
For one thing, the pacing is really bad. Things develop at a crawl, and I had to struggle not to stop the video and just forget about it. Instead, I forced myself to sit through it and hoped that things would get better. What's more, this has absolutely none of Ms. Rumiko Takahashi's trademark wit and humor, as she didn't write the material for Urusei Yatsura the Movie 2. Everything is incoherent and hard to digest. It gets a bit interesting in the later parts, but it's not enough to salvage the movie as a whole. Urusei Yatsura the Movie 2 tries to exude a deep philosophical feel, but a lot of what's happening are so silly and nonsensical that it just doesn't work.
The art and animation are average at best. At least somewhere along the way, Urusei Yatsura the Movie 2 re-enacts the original story of how Lum came to earth and met Ataru. In all fairness though, there are some profound concepts in the movie. Oh, was this a comedy? I don't remember laughing... in fact, I felt depressed having wasted so much money on the laser disc copy that I still have. Watching this farce is enough to turn you off the whole UY series.
sorry for non-japanese speaker fans.
When I watched this movie in 1984. I stayed in the cinema for more than ten hours straight to watch the same movie three or four times that day. (In Japan, once you paid admission you could stay in the cinema until you were physically out of the cinema.) 21.5 years and a few movies later, I have never seen any movie that gives me more goosedumps that this movie. And many animation fans over 30 years old and a few greatest animation creators in Japan agree with me, including original Gundams' creator.
Urusei Yatsura was popular even when it was on the comics, so when it was recreated as TV series in the early 80s, it had got experienced voice actors (dubbers?). And without their unique voices, expressions, dialogs, and strange dialects you are experiencing this movie only by 50%. I watched the english version and I was impressed the work of translation, however unless you know the language, it's difficult to enjoy every aspect of it.
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