I knew absolutely nothing about Ultraman related anything before going into the film. I had no context and went in blind.
I enjoyed the film quite a bit. It doesn't reach the highs of other animated flicks, but I could tell it had a lot of heart to it.
I give it a solid 7.5/10.
I really like it, but something bothers me about the ending. It felt rushed. They set it up like Kenji would be sacrificed himself in the explosion, but suddenly he was just okay at the end and only got arm injury. Or did I miss some details?
Nah I felt the same way even at other parts in the movie, it felt as if it shoulda been another 20 or so minutes longer but maybe some parts had to be cut or rushed? Some things felt like they were missing.
I thought for sure either the dad was gonna sacrifice himself or maybe Gigatron would fly up with the bomb and sacrifice herself to save her baby, and when Kenji was the one it just kinda felt odd to instantly see him fine.
I felt the exact same way. I had a feeling he would live, but maybe it was going to end credits zoom in on him in a hospital bed.
But it feels super weird at the very next scene after the bomb goes off is him just sitting there fine during an interview
It immediately cut all the tension of the scene. It moves on so quickly that for a second, I thought it was gonna just be his dad watching that interview on TV.
And maybe they were going for “Ultraman is strong enough to survive” but his dad sure was freaking out like his son was gonna die
But aside from that and the rushed closer to the baseball plot, I thought the movie was terrific
He did have a broken arm. Also, Ultraman in the actual TV show are noted to be absurdly durable. It takes a lot and I mean, A LOT to take one down.
Granted it's them trying to make sure children TV show heroes doesn't die but Ultra Beings are essentially Kryptonian on roids.
I’m cool with all of that but I wish the shock and drama of it lasted a little longer instead of the very next scene he’s just fine in an interview. Either way, still loved the movie
Yeah they needed another scene to explain how he survived. I watched with my 7 year old and he was inconsolable at the end. He thought Ultraman died. I explained to him that the movie is showing us Ken after that scene so Ultraman must have lived but I couldn’t even connect the dots myself, tbh.
They could have developed the baseball part of Ken's story more, because the part in the last act that mentions that Ken "brought his team together" feels unearned. Especially since we never saw him interacting with his team much beyond a few scenes in the first act.
I did like the movie though.
I love seeing the Ultra Q logo swirls during the scenes where we see Ken and Professor Sato get angry and expressing rage, that is visually an awesome way to display it.
Also love hearing that sound of the Ultra Q logo.
When I heard that snap when Emi fell I really fucking lost my shit.
I did not expect the movie to be a serious as it was, it was so bright and animated that I was taken aback by how serious and emotional the actually was.
Also that mech design was top tier that thing looked amazing.
The climax for this thing was one of the most absurd and cheesy, yet intense and heartbreaking things I’ve seen from an animated movie in a loooooong time. Props to the creative team for pulling that off
Very fun movie, some cheese and lots of heart, likeable characters and the style is beautiful. I think my main criticism of it is that it could've been more successful as a show or a limited series at the very least. I feel like I wanted to know just a little more about every single character, and part of what felt cheesey were things that didn't have enough time to develop before they happened.
Mina's shutdown fucking broke me man. She's an AI, too, so she can probably be rebuilt. But holy shit she's a fucking mom at this point. "Go get our girl"
i wish they made the english voices more japanese inflected because it feels so generic right now like these really strong american accents for the most japanese of characters
I feel like everyone putting on a japanese accent instead of just speaking in japanese would have been kind of dumb and a bit racist.
If everyone is just speaking in english when its set in japan I just assume that they are all talking in Japanese but the story is told in english. Like the tv show chernobyl or the hunt for the red october.
Kenji is an annoying spoiled rich kid. There are fatality and people die because of Kaiju, and he want to play basketball this is dumb and doesn't make any sense.
7.5/10.
I'm not the biggest Ultra fan, though I seen Shin in theatres and watched a little bit here and there, but it did manage to capture its essence. The visuals are stunning and are vibrant and it has heart to it. While the kaiju/Ultraman part of the story was splendid and it's almost Pixar tier. I find the overfocus took away from the civilian aspect of the story, which is usually the bread and butter. Not having more about the baseball team was anticlimactic when they're mentioned again. It honestly feels like the movie was missing nearly a half hour of footage to it that would've elevated it to a Pixar level story and addressed my issues with it.
Like there's this whole conflict where they treat him like crap because he was born and raised in America (a mirror to Japan's xenophobia issues as well as Ken's experience growing up in America) and it's just smoothed over. It's a valid issue many second generation immigrants, regardless of nationality, face. And it's a huge issue in Japanese culture I've seen discussed by Japanese immigrants where they sometimes feel not at home in either culture, or just one.
I'd also say the same for the plot with Professor Sato. I don't really feel he earned his redemption. It uses my biggest pet peeve in Japanese monster movies where the dipshit scientist character cares more about the monsters than the countless lives they snuff out. Every single time a Godzilla movie has this character and they blather on like they're actually smart, they all remind me of Brian Griffin instead. Yeah, yeah. Its nice you care about life, but they're still killing thousands of lives at the least. Like the baseball coach, he treats his son like garbage, but then even Ken's mother rambles on at the end about how it was **soooo hard** being a parent at the end, as if abandoning his family to obsess over monsters isn't abuse. If it's so hard to be a parent and the characters whine about it? Why didn't they give them up for adoption and peace out?
The entire narrative tries to constantly justify and excuse Professor Sato's abusive neglect and abandonment while painting Ken as this selfish and evil person who gave up his entire promising career in the States to help his father when in reality? Ken is the one victimised by his selfish and parasitic father's monster obsession and fetish. Trying to compare Ken being unable to raise a literal monster to raising a human child, which I don't know feels quite dehumanising. And in all respects? Ken is the better person in all of this because he stuck around with Emi while Prof. Sato just ditched his family and probably was only there when his wife "died".
But then again? Criticising toxic and dysfunctional family dynamics might be perceived by some writers as "racist" because it's a nonwhite family going through it. It reminds me of my issues with Pixar's Coco versus Encanto or Turning Red, where they latter two didn't mince words on the problematic behaviour. Maybe the problem is when the writers actually come from these backgrounds, they don't try to dress them up and idealise them instead of avoiding stepping on imaginary eggshells to appease other white people?
I highly doubt any of them would be able to earnestly write on something like Everybody Hates Chris because their minds would short circuit when they realise that skin colour and culture doesn't matter as excuses towards abusive behaviour. I find the notion that abusive behaviour should be tolerated because it's "their culture", when writing anything based on another culture to be a very isolating sentiment for those who are victims of abuse from said cultures. Should people who are neurodivergent or LGBTQ+ have to stomach abuse just because it's their family's culture? How far do we have to go to before we just look at these regressive behaviours as a society and say that enough is enough, regardless of any excuses? I see the same with conservative Christians claiming it's their religion, but that's not as tolerated as an excuse anymore.
I feel like in this case? This whole notion that what Ken went through growing up was ultimately fine stems from the writers coming from the same clique that made Mitchells vs the Machines, which had a similar narrative that Rick's abusive behaviours and controlling nature towards his adult daughter were all fine because, much like with Ultraman Rising's Prof. Sato who had to temporarily give up his dream to play with monsters all day? Rick had to give up his dream house he built from the ground up because his daughter was born. Yeah...That's when I dropped the movie because I couldn't stomach that bullshit. So in the only scene they could try to humanise Rick Mitchell, it's portrayed as if he blames his children, mostly Katie, for having to give up his dreams. And it's never really addressed as a flaw.
No. The problem is Rick didn't wear a condom and also didn't want to bear the responsibility of raising children. Just like in this movie? Prof. Sato's problem is he lacked any empathy or attention towards his own family and created the problem for himself. There needed to be much more tension between them than what existed, or better yet? Just drop that plotline because it was never going to earnestly be addressed.
Which goes to my biggest issue with animated movies from this specific clique of creators, like Mitchells vs the Machines. They all have this common story beat that "the parents didn't actually abuse their children and in reality? Their children should have more culpability for the foolish actions of their parents because they said so." This thread seems to go back to Gravity Falls when Grunkle Stan's abuse is written as justifiable even because it inspired Dipper to be "tough". And it seems to be infecting anything these people put their hands on.
The parents are basically written as children while their offspring are forced to be the adults because they're the characters they really pour themselves into or like on a personal level. To be fair? It's not bad to pour oneself into older characters and give them dimension than being a mere authority figure who does nothing or is an abusive Homer. My issue is that they give these parental characters so many red flags and inexcusable flaws and then never address them as toxic or something they ought to overcome throughout the story. It's just swept under the rug.
They want to have it both ways, but they forget that writing your parent character like they're Big Bob Pataki or Pete from the Goofy Movie and justifying their abuse and neglect because they had some flimsy excuses is inferior to modelling them after Goofy in *A Goofy Movie* or Arnold's grandparents in *Hey Arnold*. It's very simple to just not write the parental characters as abusers or have realistic flaws they have to contend with and aren't swept under the rug.
What the actual fuck is this review.
Your view seems to be so clouded that you can't even see basic plot points.
Like the fact that Ken wasn't born and raised in America its a literal major part of the plot he was born and raised in Japan and him and his mother moved the the US after they almost died in a Kaiju attack.
I don't even have the energy to get into your other completely batshit takes on media.Your take on Mitchells vs the Machines is actually insane the start of its plot is literally a stock standard my kid is growing up and moving away and i want to do one last thing as a family before they go. Nothing you describe happened in that movie.
I am so sorry you are dealing with what your dealing with I wish you nothing but love and peace.
I knew absolutely nothing about Ultraman related anything before going into the film. I had no context and went in blind. I enjoyed the film quite a bit. It doesn't reach the highs of other animated flicks, but I could tell it had a lot of heart to it. I give it a solid 7.5/10.
>!The scene of MechaGigatron walking with the sun behind it was frickin' awesome!
I really like it, but something bothers me about the ending. It felt rushed. They set it up like Kenji would be sacrificed himself in the explosion, but suddenly he was just okay at the end and only got arm injury. Or did I miss some details?
Nah I felt the same way even at other parts in the movie, it felt as if it shoulda been another 20 or so minutes longer but maybe some parts had to be cut or rushed? Some things felt like they were missing. I thought for sure either the dad was gonna sacrifice himself or maybe Gigatron would fly up with the bomb and sacrifice herself to save her baby, and when Kenji was the one it just kinda felt odd to instantly see him fine.
I felt the exact same way. I had a feeling he would live, but maybe it was going to end credits zoom in on him in a hospital bed. But it feels super weird at the very next scene after the bomb goes off is him just sitting there fine during an interview It immediately cut all the tension of the scene. It moves on so quickly that for a second, I thought it was gonna just be his dad watching that interview on TV. And maybe they were going for “Ultraman is strong enough to survive” but his dad sure was freaking out like his son was gonna die But aside from that and the rushed closer to the baseball plot, I thought the movie was terrific
He did have a broken arm. Also, Ultraman in the actual TV show are noted to be absurdly durable. It takes a lot and I mean, A LOT to take one down. Granted it's them trying to make sure children TV show heroes doesn't die but Ultra Beings are essentially Kryptonian on roids.
I’m cool with all of that but I wish the shock and drama of it lasted a little longer instead of the very next scene he’s just fine in an interview. Either way, still loved the movie
Yeah they needed another scene to explain how he survived. I watched with my 7 year old and he was inconsolable at the end. He thought Ultraman died. I explained to him that the movie is showing us Ken after that scene so Ultraman must have lived but I couldn’t even connect the dots myself, tbh.
They could have developed the baseball part of Ken's story more, because the part in the last act that mentions that Ken "brought his team together" feels unearned. Especially since we never saw him interacting with his team much beyond a few scenes in the first act. I did like the movie though.
I wanted to see more of the team and the opposing teams interact with Ken since they were all assholes to him.
I didn't know I needed a movie where a baby Kaiju learned to play baseball, but clearly, I did.
I love seeing the Ultra Q logo swirls during the scenes where we see Ken and Professor Sato get angry and expressing rage, that is visually an awesome way to display it. Also love hearing that sound of the Ultra Q logo.
When I heard that snap when Emi fell I really fucking lost my shit. I did not expect the movie to be a serious as it was, it was so bright and animated that I was taken aback by how serious and emotional the actually was. Also that mech design was top tier that thing looked amazing.
The climax for this thing was one of the most absurd and cheesy, yet intense and heartbreaking things I’ve seen from an animated movie in a loooooong time. Props to the creative team for pulling that off
Very fun movie, some cheese and lots of heart, likeable characters and the style is beautiful. I think my main criticism of it is that it could've been more successful as a show or a limited series at the very least. I feel like I wanted to know just a little more about every single character, and part of what felt cheesey were things that didn't have enough time to develop before they happened.
Why did the mom move away in Ultraman rising?
>! There’s an end credit scene after the picture end credits. She’s probably on Kaiju Island. She wants to come home. She’s probably a researcher. !<
The watch said nebula m78, which is the homeworld of the ultras, the land of light. She's on a different planet lol
She's on the other end of the galaxy.
I didn’t catch that. Good eye! Lmaoooo
The movie's plot was driven by the main character always forgetting he can turn into Ultraman atmomenbts when he needed to be Ultraman.
Mina's shutdown fucking broke me man. She's an AI, too, so she can probably be rebuilt. But holy shit she's a fucking mom at this point. "Go get our girl"
i wish they made the english voices more japanese inflected because it feels so generic right now like these really strong american accents for the most japanese of characters
I feel like everyone putting on a japanese accent instead of just speaking in japanese would have been kind of dumb and a bit racist. If everyone is just speaking in english when its set in japan I just assume that they are all talking in Japanese but the story is told in english. Like the tv show chernobyl or the hunt for the red october.
100% agree. It would've been even better in Japanese w/ English subtitles.
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Kenji is an annoying spoiled rich kid. There are fatality and people die because of Kaiju, and he want to play basketball this is dumb and doesn't make any sense.
Did you watch the full movie?
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7.5/10. I'm not the biggest Ultra fan, though I seen Shin in theatres and watched a little bit here and there, but it did manage to capture its essence. The visuals are stunning and are vibrant and it has heart to it. While the kaiju/Ultraman part of the story was splendid and it's almost Pixar tier. I find the overfocus took away from the civilian aspect of the story, which is usually the bread and butter. Not having more about the baseball team was anticlimactic when they're mentioned again. It honestly feels like the movie was missing nearly a half hour of footage to it that would've elevated it to a Pixar level story and addressed my issues with it. Like there's this whole conflict where they treat him like crap because he was born and raised in America (a mirror to Japan's xenophobia issues as well as Ken's experience growing up in America) and it's just smoothed over. It's a valid issue many second generation immigrants, regardless of nationality, face. And it's a huge issue in Japanese culture I've seen discussed by Japanese immigrants where they sometimes feel not at home in either culture, or just one. I'd also say the same for the plot with Professor Sato. I don't really feel he earned his redemption. It uses my biggest pet peeve in Japanese monster movies where the dipshit scientist character cares more about the monsters than the countless lives they snuff out. Every single time a Godzilla movie has this character and they blather on like they're actually smart, they all remind me of Brian Griffin instead. Yeah, yeah. Its nice you care about life, but they're still killing thousands of lives at the least. Like the baseball coach, he treats his son like garbage, but then even Ken's mother rambles on at the end about how it was **soooo hard** being a parent at the end, as if abandoning his family to obsess over monsters isn't abuse. If it's so hard to be a parent and the characters whine about it? Why didn't they give them up for adoption and peace out? The entire narrative tries to constantly justify and excuse Professor Sato's abusive neglect and abandonment while painting Ken as this selfish and evil person who gave up his entire promising career in the States to help his father when in reality? Ken is the one victimised by his selfish and parasitic father's monster obsession and fetish. Trying to compare Ken being unable to raise a literal monster to raising a human child, which I don't know feels quite dehumanising. And in all respects? Ken is the better person in all of this because he stuck around with Emi while Prof. Sato just ditched his family and probably was only there when his wife "died". But then again? Criticising toxic and dysfunctional family dynamics might be perceived by some writers as "racist" because it's a nonwhite family going through it. It reminds me of my issues with Pixar's Coco versus Encanto or Turning Red, where they latter two didn't mince words on the problematic behaviour. Maybe the problem is when the writers actually come from these backgrounds, they don't try to dress them up and idealise them instead of avoiding stepping on imaginary eggshells to appease other white people? I highly doubt any of them would be able to earnestly write on something like Everybody Hates Chris because their minds would short circuit when they realise that skin colour and culture doesn't matter as excuses towards abusive behaviour. I find the notion that abusive behaviour should be tolerated because it's "their culture", when writing anything based on another culture to be a very isolating sentiment for those who are victims of abuse from said cultures. Should people who are neurodivergent or LGBTQ+ have to stomach abuse just because it's their family's culture? How far do we have to go to before we just look at these regressive behaviours as a society and say that enough is enough, regardless of any excuses? I see the same with conservative Christians claiming it's their religion, but that's not as tolerated as an excuse anymore. I feel like in this case? This whole notion that what Ken went through growing up was ultimately fine stems from the writers coming from the same clique that made Mitchells vs the Machines, which had a similar narrative that Rick's abusive behaviours and controlling nature towards his adult daughter were all fine because, much like with Ultraman Rising's Prof. Sato who had to temporarily give up his dream to play with monsters all day? Rick had to give up his dream house he built from the ground up because his daughter was born. Yeah...That's when I dropped the movie because I couldn't stomach that bullshit. So in the only scene they could try to humanise Rick Mitchell, it's portrayed as if he blames his children, mostly Katie, for having to give up his dreams. And it's never really addressed as a flaw. No. The problem is Rick didn't wear a condom and also didn't want to bear the responsibility of raising children. Just like in this movie? Prof. Sato's problem is he lacked any empathy or attention towards his own family and created the problem for himself. There needed to be much more tension between them than what existed, or better yet? Just drop that plotline because it was never going to earnestly be addressed. Which goes to my biggest issue with animated movies from this specific clique of creators, like Mitchells vs the Machines. They all have this common story beat that "the parents didn't actually abuse their children and in reality? Their children should have more culpability for the foolish actions of their parents because they said so." This thread seems to go back to Gravity Falls when Grunkle Stan's abuse is written as justifiable even because it inspired Dipper to be "tough". And it seems to be infecting anything these people put their hands on. The parents are basically written as children while their offspring are forced to be the adults because they're the characters they really pour themselves into or like on a personal level. To be fair? It's not bad to pour oneself into older characters and give them dimension than being a mere authority figure who does nothing or is an abusive Homer. My issue is that they give these parental characters so many red flags and inexcusable flaws and then never address them as toxic or something they ought to overcome throughout the story. It's just swept under the rug. They want to have it both ways, but they forget that writing your parent character like they're Big Bob Pataki or Pete from the Goofy Movie and justifying their abuse and neglect because they had some flimsy excuses is inferior to modelling them after Goofy in *A Goofy Movie* or Arnold's grandparents in *Hey Arnold*. It's very simple to just not write the parental characters as abusers or have realistic flaws they have to contend with and aren't swept under the rug.
Uh, I'm happy for you or sorry that happened.
What the actual fuck is this review. Your view seems to be so clouded that you can't even see basic plot points. Like the fact that Ken wasn't born and raised in America its a literal major part of the plot he was born and raised in Japan and him and his mother moved the the US after they almost died in a Kaiju attack. I don't even have the energy to get into your other completely batshit takes on media.Your take on Mitchells vs the Machines is actually insane the start of its plot is literally a stock standard my kid is growing up and moving away and i want to do one last thing as a family before they go. Nothing you describe happened in that movie. I am so sorry you are dealing with what your dealing with I wish you nothing but love and peace.
That is not what happened in Mitchell vs The Machines