Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom

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.

I thought the movie was very good, it has dramatic, exciting and other fun scenes.

In general, I thought the story was good, for example it gives more meaning to the genetic experiments and makes some characters question their lives more. I also liked several of the new characters, such as Agnes.

I also liked seeing scenes from this saga with new animation since the 2002 and 2004 series seem a little old in that regard.

I think that as a fan of Seed I was satisfied and I liked the ending, I thought it was quite beautiful.

Anyway, I really missed seeing my favorite Gundam characters and mechas.

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.

I loved the Mobile Suit Gundam Anime as a kid. This is one of those properties that made me fall in love with Anime in general. Now to be far, I haven't watched any episodes of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Series, so I am new to this version of Mobile Suit Gundam, but that didn't stop me from watching this movie. I just finished watching this movie and I loved it. And honestly, I'm surprised by how good this movie, especially given its production history.

Positives for Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Freedom (2024): I loved the story and journey that this movie goes on with these characters. You can tell that there was a lot of care given to this movie and I can honestly say that Chiaki Morosawa would be proud of this movie and what it does for fans of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. As with any anime, the animation looks gorgeous and the score was phenomenal. The action sequences in this movie are among some of the best action sequences I've seen in any anime. The themes this movie explore are very deep and emotional throughout the runtime and it makes the whole experience all the more grander and powerful. And finally, I moved the way that this movie ends and it made me so happy to the point where I was on the verge of happy tears.

Overall, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Freedom (2024) is a phenomenal anime movie in general, but it is also a phenomenal love letter to the die hard fans of this series and I love the movie all the more for those reasons.