Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM

If you enjoyed the seed universe that the original director and writer created, then this movie makes sense. There is payoff to the character developments and relationships and themes she created. To truly appreciate the movie, you really need to invest in the shows. The seed universe should be evaluated as a whole. In a time when sequels are more misses than hits this movie reinforces the themes that have been present throughout: Free will, destiny, fate, love, the cause and prevention of war. So, the seed universe is great for philosophical discussion. It's rare that a story can have entertainment, action, romance, and deep philosophical themes.

The premise is the same as both Seed and Destiny. So and so believes they can control the world and they want to nuke everyone.

Main character spread was great but the constantly bad English dub actors with little to no emotion at times. Not to mention the obvious same voice actor for multiple characters with no breaks between characters speaking was a let down from the beginning.

Will never get over everyone calling Lacus a Caboose, Err, Sorry Lacoooose. And the voice actor sounded like a mouth breather and nowhere near Lacus's original voice. It was killing the vibe within minutes.

Watch the original version with subtitles and save yourself the heartache of your favourite characters being butchered.

Hopefully AI can some day fix this video with proper voice actors.

The series from which this spawned, Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny were know for having their soppy love moments, but at the forefront was always a serious story and themes of power, politics and regular people getting caught between corrupt leaders waging senseless wars. There were moments of levity and love but the tone was always mature. The love stories were related to the plot.

Gundam Seed Freedom replaces the mature tone for some teenage love drama, and it's ridiculous. Officers fighting over which boy should love who, soldiers acting like kids in high school, all while waging a nuclear war which is incinerating thousands of innocents. It's just laughable.

On the plus side, it is nice to see the characters again, and in beautiful HD animation, despite the fact that the characters don't really act like the same characters from the series. They even throw in a few gooner shots for the pervs. It really is the animation that saves this movie.

Don't even get me started on the English dub. I never understand when a studio takes all the time to produce something from an existing IP but can't even get the pronunciation of the names right. Who is Lacoose?! Fire EaglestelOOnz! Kira YaMOto. Come on. Say the names of everything the same way they were originally pronounced to maintain continuity. They got it even worse than that Last Airbender live action movie did.

Worth watching for the animation. It's also decent nostalgia for those who loved the series, and it's not absolutely terrible. It's dumb but it's not bad. That's the best fans can hope for in this dark era of cinema.

After 18 years, what horrible sequel this is. Why'd they have to make this bs? It doesn't offer anything new.

The story feels like watching repeat of chunks from season 1 and 2. The comedy is mediocre and the horrible main characters are really really weird. The personalities doesn't look like what it was in the previous seasons.

The first season was too great. The second season was good as well. But this is just horrible. It was better not to make any sequel if they gonna produce this low quality story and ruin the entire series.

Albeit it felt really good watching these classic characters in action, but though very very disappointed.

Simply put this is gundam at its best. You may not like Gundam Seed but it's a fact that it is one of the best and most beloved Gundam series. It saved gundam back in the 2000s and is giving it a resurgence again so the vocal minority may not like it but you dam well better respect it for its significance. But thats what makes gundam great is we have something for everyone. Seed was awesome and Destiny was obviously a rushed mess but the remaster does do a good job of cleaning it up. This movie is for the fans and gives this series the high note it deserved to end on if this truly is the end of it. Give it a watch. It's a lot of fun.