Kidô Senshi Gandamu Shîdo Furîdamu

After Waiting so long to see this movie, I tried watching this movie on Netflix last night. Since it wasn't released in theaters nearby where I live when it came out in theaters, but I had to turn it off not even 10 minutes in because the dub in this movie is trash like they can even get names right. For example, and it's probably the worst lacus has been pronounced lack-us for almost 2 decades. The fact that they butchered her name so bad by calling her lack-oos is just an insult of the fans really. Like they got some of the other characters named wrong and a bunch of mobile suits named wrong, but lacus was the worst. It would be nice if the people in charge of dubbing these things would actually watch some of the episodes of the anime to see how things are pronounced like there's two seasons that are like almost 50 episodes each just watched some of the episodes and get the pronunciations, right.

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.

This movie accomplishes so much in a two hour time-run, and has at no-point been unengaging. It does so much justice with the story left off from the end of SEED Destiny, by building up on what has already been established, as opposed to creating something completely different. Moreover, it explores the horrors that comes with segregating people based on genetics and skills, and the consequences it has on human and societal development.

As such, all the characters are written perfectly; even reamending characters that were previously despised in the last series to the point they are now beloved (Shinn Asuka). Both the music and animation is truly to be commended for as well, with iconic songs also being brought back in greater appreciation of the two preceding series. In addition to this, there are many great and comedic moments in the film that keeps the audience entertained throughout the whole run.

Everyone should take the opportunity to watch this amazing anime film in cinema, as its focus is so much more than just mecha action!

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.

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.