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Fansub vu sur Anime-Ultime.

Less slaps and punches, less battles, no awkward dialog: a big improvement on the 14 first episodes I just watched !
Of course they could have edited out less material: we don't know how they get the mini MS, no introduction of Mr.Lee (who felt kind of important in the show)... by giving it more time but I suppose a 2h-2h30 movie couldn't be screened in the 2000s.

Some things that bothered me:
- Hayato and Kai's opinion about Char was modified (no mention about his ability to become a good leader for the Earth ie.),
- some little things become illogical: new suits pop out of nowhere, colour change of the first one never mentioned...
- the cuts made Camille a lot less antipathetic but because of it he also seems to stagnate. A few more scenes from his beginnings as a hot-blooded angry teenager would have made him more interesting,
- the instants where Amuro and Char recognize instinctively each other's presence were not remade. Some of Camille's powers scenes were ´lso removed. This tends to diminish the Newtype abilities of everyone.
- while the difference in rendition of Yasuhiko's style didn't bother me at all, the shifts between cellulos and PC animation are quite ugly because of the paint colours. (And because in my eyes computerized animation looks very flat compared to old hand-drawn cellulos manually animated.)

Again, the disappearance of all those terrible lines and overused "punishments" from the TV series, that made it somewhat ridiculous, more than make up for the lost bits.

Plaisir: 5/5
Score: 7.5/10
En tant que simple film, celui-ci vaut un 7, mais plus en tant que restitution améliorée des épisodes qu'il "récapitule" (et c'était bien là son but premier).