Product Details

• Actors: TÃ'ru Furuya, Hirotaka Suzuoki
• Directors: Yoshiyuki Tomino
• Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Bandai
• DVD Release Date: May 18, 2010
• Run Time: 441 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003BI77MW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #51,173 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM TRILOGY - DVD Movie

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic, June 22, 2010

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This review is from: Mobile Suit Gundam Trilogy Anime Legends (DVD)

First: in case it was not clear to anybody, these movies are a 'compilation' of the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime series. Basically, they just trimmed up the tv show and turned it into 3 two-hour episodes. I only noticed one or two things that didnt make sense (when he meets Lalah at the house in the middle of nowhere...) but I watched these when I was already familiar with the story. If you dont know much about MSG, it may be more confusing...
Another note: it is only subtitled, there is no English dub.
Despite all that, I highly recommend this. It's an awesome story with interesting characters (Char!), lots of action, and a 'happy' ending (unlike a lot of the Gundam Shows).
If you watch this and enjoy it, I highly recommend it's sequel series(Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam) and the movie Char's Counterattack.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars it'll get you by, August 31, 2010

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MattOstee - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mobile Suit Gundam Trilogy Anime Legends (DVD)

i watched all 3 of these movies with a friend, and we both came to the same conclusion: they're good, but in the back of your head you know that the actual series is much better and deeper. these three movies are about the same as reading a summery of the plot. they take the 42 or 43 episode series and compresses it into 6 hours and i would have to say that they did a fantastic job of it. even though i was confused and had to look some things up to get a better understanding of what was going on a few times (that being a good definition of a newtype and amuro and lala's relationship), i was still attached to the characters and was excited every time they showed up in Zeta gundam. my biggest complaint is that lala is a very important character to the series and she only gets maybe 15 minutes of screen time in these films. so, if you want to get the general story of the one year war and the main characters of the UC timeline so you can watch Zeta Gundam (the more popular series) then this is a good place to start, but i would recomend to any fan also see the entire original MSG series.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The original story that started it all!, February 20, 2011

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Kay One (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mobile Suit Gundam Trilogy Anime Legends (DVD)

For those who wrote reviews saying that this trilogy of films is a condensed compilation of the TV series, yes that is true.

For those who say the original TV series is better, not necessarily.

A little anime history lesson. The original MS Gundam TV series came out in 1979 and was one of the first japanese anime robot series to break from the 'Super Robot' mold of shows like Mazinger Z, Zambot, Brave Raideen and others. You know, the typical 'little kid' or team of hot blooded pilots controlling a giant super robot with near magical like abilities. MSG was one of the first shows to depict giant robots as a mass produced weapon of war subject to the laws of reality, with the real stars being the characters themselves. However being one of the first of the 'Real Robot' style of shows, it still had a lot of 'Super Robot' type elements, including a very colorful looking hero suit, and pretty ridiculous 'evil monster of the week' enemy Mobile Armors. Face it, the original MSG was still pretty cheesy at times despite the otherwise realistic setting of civil war in space. There were quite a few crappy 'monster mobile armor of the week' filler eps and cheesy gimmicks like the G-Armor and Gundam Hammer weapon that smacked too much of the Super Robot shows.

In 1981, series creator and director Yoshiyuki Tomino took the best elements of the original TV series, cut out much of the super robot kiddie elements, plot filler, to develop a more harsh and realstic depiction of the One Year War and original saga into three movies. And FYI, Tomino states that the events depicted in the film are the official canon to the UC Gundam saga, not the TV series.

If you want to be a completist, watch the TV series for all the good and bad, but if you had to choose between the TV series and Movie compilations, just know that the films are all you need to watch to get a firm foundation in the 'original' aka Universal Century timeline of the Mobile Suit Gundam saga.

This film compilation is subbed only, which is not such a bad thing as there was an infamous dub that featured a horrible british sounding Bright Noa and everyone pronouncing the gundam as 'gunDAMN!' I heard a clip of the dub and it's hilarious painful.


To hear a great fan review on these films, check out the Gundamn! @ MAHQ podcast.