Birth

Rating:
Summary: POINTLESS BUT LOOKS KINDA GOOD
Review: Back in the old days, lots of anime was made to satisfy the eyeballs of otaku fanboys with a lot of visual fluff but they mostly lacked plot and characterization. Such is the case with the oldschool feature, Birth. During some of the more action-packed sequences, you can almost sense that 20 years ago, people in Japan were ooing and awwing over the still somewhat impressive animation without worrying about having good characters.

The lifeforce of the Universe has become unbalanced which has led to the appearance of a race of Inorganics (robots?) whose sole mission is to eradicate the Organics (humans) from all worlds. Thats when a mysterious flying sword, named SHADE, shows up. Supposedly, it is the key to destroying the cancerous spread of the Inorganics. A human named Nam comes upon it as he is riding a giant chicken-like beast and claims it for his own. Unluckily for him, the Inorganics know about SHADE too, and will stop at nothing to obtain it. Nam is helped in his quest to understand the nature of SHADE by his shapely ladyfriend, Rasa, and a lecherous spaceship captain and copilot, and an annoying little glob whose only speech is the word "Munga!".

If you like old school anime that has a lot of storm and fury but little substance in the style of MegaZone 23 you will love this anime. After you finish watching it, you feel as though sitting through it was a pointless exercise. Most of the characters lives revolve around driving around. I mean, what do these people do for a living? The music is your standard cheesy 80s electronic keyboard music. I will admit that for being such an old anime, the animation is pretty good. The Japanese voice acting was pretty average or below average, especially the always yelling spaceship captain. I haven't listened to all of the 5.1 English dub but what little I have is preferrable to the Japanese. The only extra on here is and Art Gallery.

Rating:
Summary: Bust the tape and throw it in the garbage
Review: I had to watch the movie 3 times to find out what it was about, after I was done, I wished that I had never watched it to began with.

The movie is in the SD (super deformed, when the heads are much bigger then they should be) format, and considering the age of the tape the animation is good. However it is missing one major thing, a plot. I think that it is supposed to be a spoof of a different movie, but if it is then I have never seen it.

Rating:
Summary: Bust the tape and throw it in the garbage
Review: I had to watch the movie 3 times to find out what it was about, after I was done, I wished that I had never watched it to began with.

The movie is in the SD (super deformed, when the heads are much bigger then they should be) format, and considering the age of the tape the animation is good. However it is missing one major thing, a plot. I think that it is supposed to be a spoof of a different movie, but if it is then I have never seen it.

Rating:
Summary: Planet Busters
Review: I saw this film back in the day when it was titled "Planet Busters"...I figure the two reviewers here are NEW viewers because this was an early anime that tried to tap the "artsy" side of anime back in 1984. The film's REAL name is "Basu" and it has its own fan following. I find it quirky and silly at times but hardly the WORST anime ever made! People who state this just havent seen alot of animes. Its quirky, funny and just plain weird at times. The anime is old school but maintains its OWN style.

Rating:
Summary: What comes below zero stars?
Review: Okay, ADV REALLY owes me an explanation this time. I mean, this is undoubtedly one of the stupidest, strangest, most boring anime in the history of the planet. I might even go so far as to say that it is the WORST anime I have ever seen in my life! Okay, the basic premise was alright, and the character designs were okay. But there is NO character devlopment, NO good dialog, NO good action (despite the entire movie pretty much being a series of chase scenes). And what the heck is that blob creature? What the heck? I mean, this thing is so bad I couldn't watch it all the way through (even in Japanese). The music is pretty bad but the whole thing is really quite boring and strange and just plain... Bleh! Stay far far away!