17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful movie, terrible DVD..., June 14, 2004
This review is from: Urusei Yatsura - Movie 2 - Beautiful Dreamer (Collector's Series) (DVD)
This is an awesome movie. Five stars, all the way. Unfortunately, this DVD must have been taken from one of the worst film elements in existence. Three stars, at best.
When this disc was first announced, I assumed that CPM would license the newly-restored, anamorphic widescreen video released on the Japanese R2 DVD. What CPM chose to do was clean up the cropped-to-fullscreen video from the original R1 DVD and release that for this edition. Proof? Check out the 2:15 position, close to the edge of the screen. That red dot that appears repeatedly throughout the movie was on the first release, too. Also note the hard subtitles for signs are same font/color as the older disc, while the soft subs have been improved for better visibility.
Just to rub salt into an open wound, the original Japanese trailer on this disc *is* widescreen. Aarrghh!
On the plus side, the ending is complete now, including the Japanese credits and the full version of "Ai wa boomerang." Sweet! I think the subtitle translation was updated, too.
I was hoping for a new dub, but that was never going to happen. Not for a twenty year old anime movie with one U.S. release already. Even if the existing dub sucks. Even if the movie is the GREATEST film ever.
Overall, if you have the first release, don't bother with this one unless you're obsessive and/or a rabid Urusei Yatsura otaku. If you don't have the original, buy it NOW. You'll enjoy it.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not for the Subtitled Fan, November 25, 1999
First of all, let me say that this is the best movie in the entire UY collection. If you want ahigh quality anime that actualy isn't depressing. I suggest you buy this. I was very unimpressed with the DVD of this spectacular film. One, there were next to no liner notes. In fact to get to the liner notes you must first remove the sleeve on the front of the case and peer on the reverse side. Also the grave HORROR for the subtitle viewer DUBTITLES! for those of you who do not know, Dubtitling is working off of the dubbed script to make the japanese subtitles. So I must sugest that you pick up the original subtitled tape as well as the DVD or just one. STill a great show!
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A beautiful story, August 25, 2000
After the fantastic Only You I expected the second Urusei Yatsura movie to be another laugh-a-second romp through outer space.
It isn't. What it is is a little odd actually. It's a story which focuses on the human cast of Urusei Yatsura, leaving the aliens (except Lum and Ten) out, apart from the odd namecheck and cameo in Ataru's dream sequence. Instead we're treated to a surreal, seemingly post-apocalyptic mystery world inhabited only by the core Urusei Yatsura characters.
And very strange it is too. I don't want to give anything away, although the title does that very well on its own, but this story is not what you expect at all. Which is a good thing in many ways. It's full of surprises and odd twists. But beneath it all, supporting it like a stone collossus (sorry, in joke) is the old Urusei Yatsura humour. Because the jokes, puns and slapstick are there, the rest of the film feels fun, not complex and heavy. And in the end you come out having been entertained, and perhaps a little disturbed. An utterly fantastic film.
Just make sure to watch in Japanese!
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