Dirty Pair: The Movie

Agerna is a planet rich in Vizorium, the one mineral necessary to space travel. So when a series of mysterious attacks on mining operations has the governments of the world pointing fingers and blaming each other, the World Welfare & Works Association naturally sends in their top agents to investigate. But are the lovely angels up to the task of stopping a mad scientist bent on taking a long dormant alien race to its final evolutionary form? Throw in a thief who's hunting a bottle of World War II-vintage wine and it's a safe bet that nobody on the planet is safe. It's more chaos, more mayhem and even more destruction than ever before as the Dirty Pair take on their wildest case yet!

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Kei Main

Tonguu, Kyouko Japanese

Yuri Main

Shimazu, Saeko Japanese

Carson, Carson D. Main

Mori, Katsuji Japanese

Bruno Supporting

Nishio, Toku Japanese

Boss Supporting

Iizuka, Shouzou Japanese

Seisan Iinchou Supporting

Terashima, Mikio Japanese

Chief Manager Supporting

Kobayashi, Osamu Japanese

Wattsman Supporting

Otsuka, Chikao Japanese

Macek, Carl Producer, ADR Director

Mashimo, Kouichi Director

Chiba, Kouichi Sound Director

Hoshiyama, Hiroyuki Script

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Jun 7, 2024

TheVistrian

Recommended

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Peak opening frame. Frankly Boob bullets from the looks of it.peak opening setting. Surfing snow in the middle of the city. An elevator with a staircase and a tree. We are one minute in and I am impressed. An interplanetary elevator. Diving into space time.swimming through it too. Special metals and lore structures. 3000 planets with life. Vizorium. I can get behind that name. She cheeps them out. But she wasn’t actually blond. Unfortunately this is somehow a negative. Be good boys. She’s a cop. The space bug melts into the scene.yes one of them has acceptable hair. Great suit gadget. Crazy action shots. Teehee ... violence. How? Why was it in a case set to explode when an explosion causes mass death. An infinite atrificial planetary ring exploding. Oh no. This is nothing but 9 behavior so far. This looks pretty amazing. I really hope it keeps it up. Good looking intro.tell it to em. It’s only gotten better. He spent 123449 minutes. No time for wine. Capitalism! She punches a dog. She nearly dances them to death. 3 monsters. Wild creatures wouldn’t go after rare metal. He knocks down the whole operation. Do something for yourself. Dirty hair suits the dirty pair well. Searching the abandoned plant. The showers. They take a nice bath during the mission. What a suprise they got excited to see naked. Also booo.i accept no flaca apologist behavior such as this.she is valid about herself though. hmm. If he removes them they will be seen. A sneak. No buts or no life either.he cuffs himself. They arrive in the blue. A whole army.they all rip each other apart for the metal. They verbally throw down. Down there in purple town? Professor waton. A professional thief needs to be a professional art collector. A really rough woman will have a really rough time in love “Carson de Carson.” She has already fallen. Crazy. A work of art. A creature. A stone. A sample of a perfect bio spot. The perfect being seemingly a lass. What a way to get around. Kinda like me low key. People the rock is alive. The butt is ripping. The purpose of a revolution is to make the seeds of a better structure gradually. And the seeds separated from my previous structure, never joined together again. Nobody knows why living things have these revolutions. A little shit of minnows? He knows she fell. If you like me act like it. True!!!!!!! He punches her.? Be a good girl? The aliens are brought forth from their slumber. What is he doing? The very best one. A new type. Mushroom fossil pedestals. The red claws. The eye in the sky is shot down. It’s an important thing. He is really going to do it. You get burnt if you fall in love with loving. She’s so used to playing with fire she she won’t get burnt. She wants to learn to hate him for him. She will forget for him. Strong hearted with the weak mind. And it all turns to petals. And then they combine and disappear. She role plays. They are imprisoned together. You just try to say that to me again. Blown into different holes. Gong the name of the movie. Everything is activating. Something seems to be launching. Everything is connecting in together. Environmental displacement by evolution of necessity. Their souls are stolen. The important wine. The very best of the finest. The one who stole his precious wine. The best wine ever. He saw studied and searched. Humanity successor needs to be chosen while the humans are still alive. All of the fossils brought back to life. With boobs too. They get suited up. Theigh rockets. It’s all exploding. Distracted by his destined bottle of wine. She always knew that. A pro shouldn’t start a matter if they end up failing. He’ll miss being a professional. You almost make me feel good. And now it’s your turn. He can’t remember anything because he’s lost. He drinks the wine. Nice wine and a nice woman for a thief. He is a real happy guy. Shedding it after its final shot. Brain. I would appreciate it if the whole facility came alive. Let’s see. 1 million shards of glass. His cords get cut. Only the song during the sequence. It all comes crashing down. [spoiler] And he lives. [/spoiler] you know you will never do that sort of thing. It’s beginning of a new mankind. They awaken the planet anyway. Death in the middle of love. [spoiler] And then everyone dies as they fly away. [/spoiler] that was great. I’m feeling a 9 so far. It gets rated so high purely because of how it looks. It is sort of like X the movie, When it comes to the actual story, it is odd and disjointed. Frankly, I am biased when it comes to these types of things and if it looks good, I will enjoy it. And this looks good in the ways that will specifically appeal to me which are: Futuristic city landscapes/environments. Mechanical mechanisms and gadgets/technological visuals. Alien creatures/settings. (Technically robots but it only has a little of that.) The destruction of the previously mentioned things. When I say looking good, I’m not even referring to the women at all, I could pretty much care less. The blue one was OK until she was revealed to be a flaca apologist. I felt like the whole plant should have came alive. There was even a brain at the top of the plant that I think could have been part of the end goal of the evil scientist. The cat creature should have showed up later and the blue lady should have saved them when the cat did. And then the cat should have brought some sort of ship that would be capable of dealing with the awaken facility. As the facility kept seemingly activating and coming together, but it never really became something new. If the rocks were secretly alive, which, by the way was a concept, I greatly enjoyed, Then using whatever was learned to bring them back alive could have been used to bring the building itself alive as well. I did feel it was odd that the woman instantaneously fell in love with the criminal who groped and punched her. for something with such a provocative name it had a strangely small amount of fan service, or maybe it just didn't appeal to me. The story is just barely passable enough for me to feel a high rating is deserved as the visuals are extremely appealing to what I enjoy looking at. One of the better pieces of cyberpunk I have experienced. A low 9 that could drop. 5

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jan 18, 2023

c---5

Mixed Feelings

A decent return to form after the disappointing and overly-morose Nolandia Affair, Project Eden is far more in line with the style and tone of the TV series. The plotline is unfortunately too thin to fill out the 80 minute runtime and just doesn't have as much substance as the TV episodes did, but the film makes up for it with an incredible sense of style. Dirty Pair always has fantastic action and the animation here is top-notch. The production design in general is a bit creepier than usual and it almost feels like a Metroid anime in places, and the atmosphere and music are ... both spectacular. That sense of style does a lot of heavy lifting because otherwise this kind of feels like the Rocky 4 of anime, in the sense that it's about 30 minutes of plot with 60 minutes of stylish music videos and action. That's not bad and it's still a ton of fun to experience visually, but it's also not super compelling, though there are still some good elements to the story. This installment introduces a very fun Han Solo-esque rogue in the form of Carson D. Carson, who gets the only really meaningful character arc. The ending is such a corny crap-out it kind of brings the film down a bit even more, but I still enjoyed another reasonably fun adventure with the Pair.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 29, 2018

glassknuckles

Mixed Feelings

Speaking as a big Dirty Pair fan, it's really amazing how much of disappointment Project Eden is. The animation is smooth, I guess, and the intro, Yuri's impromptu dance (now a famous vaporwave gif), the "over the top" song sequence, and the Streamline dub Wattsman's VA is about all I like about this particular Dirty Pair franchise entry.

Let's start with the bath that results in Kei, Yuri and Carson doing Kill la Kill before that was a thing for most of this movie. While they actually became pretty professional by the end of the TV series, Kei and Yuri are still a ... couple of dimbulbs (and I mean that in the most affectionate way) but even early TV series Kei and Yuri wouldn't take a bath in radioactive abandoned mine water.

But what I don't really like about this movie is that once Carson gets (re) introduced in the mine, the Pair seem to take a backseat in driving the story. Carson leads the Pair around; they tend to respond to him instead of driving the situation themselves and putting the men in the backseat, as is the usual dynamic in the TV series. For a good portion of the film Kei is off with Carson and Yuri has no dialogue as she looks around for them (though the Xenomorph skin she wears is a nice touch). The result of all this is that, crucially, the banter and camaraderie between Kei and Yuri is absent from the majority of this film, producing something rather joyless compared to any episode of the TV series.

What's even more offensive is the cheesy romance angle between Kei and Carson. The TV series Lovely Angels' relationships with men are comically bad and these experiences continually reaffirm the bond between Kei and Yuri. Seeing Kei getting flustered and tsundere with this Carson guy just doesn't sit right with me, it's not what I expect from girls who've been making jokes about oral sex and giving each other their 'leftover' men (25 years before Panty and Stocking did it!). The sexual confidence and savvy dealing with men that characterizes Kei and Yuri is simply not here.

This movie is just not fun or funny, and if this is someone's first exposure to Dirty Pair I would understand why they wouldn't be impressed by it - the movie's Kei and Yuri just feel generic and, crucially, they don't even feel like the main players in their own movie when the staff has given so much attention to Carson and Wattsman. Project Eden is not representative of what makes the Dirty Pair great characters. Kei and Yuri really deserved a rollicking action comedy epic - like many episodes of the TV/OVA series are- instead of this rather dull affair.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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