Urusei Yatsura Movie 3: Remember My Love

What I consider to be the last "good" Yatsura film, Urusei Yatsura: Remember my love is a very good and solid film I had the pleasure to watch. It revolves around the love between Lum and Ataru, who amidst all their fights and perils against each other, are still married and accompanied by a wide variety of supporting characters, Ataru's classmates, Megane, Perm, Shinobu who tell Lum of a red piece of string that bonds lovers together. The gang then all go to Tomoniki land, a newly opened theme park in the fictional town of Tomobiki. Lum and Ataru explore their newfound environment as the ... rest of Ataru's friends go explore the more supernatural elements of the park. They are all soon invited to a magic show, where Ataru then volunteers himself to one of the Magicians tricks. Amidst the Magicians performance, he suddenly vanishes leaving Ataru exposed as a pink hippo. The rest of the film follows around Ataru's friends, Ms. Sakura, Cherry, Ataru's parents and Lum all trying to find a way for Ataru to return back to normal, whilst Lum defends her husband and disembarks to fight off the mysterious shape shifting magician. Urusei Yatsura 3: Remember my Love is a tale of love and adventure, a twisted reality of all things abnormal and wacky, which fits into tone of the Urusei Yatsura series. It has its humorous bits and darks bits, but most importantly it has the wide array of characters from the Yatsura franchise, all with their wacky and miscellaneous personalities. Remember my love is the series standard of all Yatsura films, which you would typically expect out of the Urusei Yatsura franchise. This doesn't mean its the best nor worst film in the series, but a solid film on its own and one that holds testament under the Urusei yatsura name. The only thing I slightly disregard about the film is that I do think that the ending was quite weak, not to spoil it for a 35+ year old anime movie, but I do think that you the viewer should come to your own conclusions about it. So my recommendation is that if you love the Yatsura franchise or enjoy a classic anime film from time to time, this film alongside Beautiful dreamer is what I would recommend watching.

A very solid 7/10 from me

Urusei Yatsura Movie 3: Remember My love is a decently excecuted movie. The story takes place around 1985 and this time it centers mostly on our lovely alien girl Lum instead of our womanizer Ataru.

As far as the story goes, it was okay. The plot felt a bit boring in the first half since nothing major happened, but things started to become interesting in the second half. A thing this movie missed out on where the amount of jokes they could have done. If you are familiar with the series, you would a expect lot of jokes, however at certain situations in this movie instead ... of making a lighthearted joke, you would see a somewhat dramatic moment. Also there were some moments that were rather anticlimatic such as the defeat of the antagonist or how Ataru's problem was resolved instead of maade full use of in the movie to advance the plot. But the movie doesn't only have downsides, there were some rather well good parts such as the concept of losing a good friend was rather well executed.

The art as far as it goes, is probably the strongest point of this movie. This movie has some great visuals such as the chasing scene and the scenes at the festival. As for the sound, there were more english songs than I would have expected but I must say they somewhat fitted the movie.
Quite a lot of characters made their appearances at the first half of the movie and almost each had their own moment to shine, which I found rather good. Lum got the spotlight, where we also get some scenes to see of Lum as baby and child which were adorable.

I did enjoy this movie even though the first half made the movie seem like a stretched out episode, but the second half made that up by revealing some plottwists that were unexpected and some interesting moments. The visuals also helped a lot as the great visuals were pleasing to see.

Even though this movie isn't as good storywise as the first two Urusei Yatsura movies ("Only you" and "Beautiful Dreamer"), It was pretty decent. However this movie has in my opinion almost no memorable scenes which will make this easily forgettable compared to some of the other movies.
Considering it was the movie after the second movie which most people view as one of the best movies, this one still holds its own spot as a decent movie in my opinion and is not overshadowed by any means.

I'm watching these movies and writing these reviews back to back and it's starting to wear me down. In terms of plot, this is definitely the weakest of the three movies I've seen so far. It doesn't have much going for it, and I would say that the first film is better than this one, but only slightly. Minor spoilers in this review. In 1967, a wicked witch who was connected to Lum's family wasn't invited to see Lum's birth. This, for some reason, makes her furious. So in return, the witch creates a curse on Lum that will always cause her misfortune in love. ... She will never find happiness with her true love. The curse was placed into an orb, and many centuries later, it was discovered by a young boy. The specific year was 2267, just in case you were curious.

Come to present day, present time 1985. The town of Tomobiki creates a new amusement park called "Tomobiki Marchenland." Lum thinks it would be an excellent idea to bring her piece of human garbage darling, Ataru Moroboshi, along for a date. Lum is such a sweetheart. Everyone else in Ataru and Lum's class come along as well even though none of the supporting characters have no significance to the overall plot whatsoever. Enter the new antagonists, Ruu and his servant Oshima. Two characters who both have weak and strange character motivations that are explained later in the film. Things do take a turn for the worse when Ataru volunteers for a magic trick and is transformed into a pink hippo. It's later explained why this happens, but the entire conflict between Ruu and the main characters is pretty lame and underwhelming. The stakes are not that high in this film.

I would compare Ruu to Mujaki, the antagonist of the previous film, except Ruu is not as powerful and not as well written. They do have similar abilities of altering time and space, but Ruu's powers don't mess with your mind as much. The only thing in this film that I believe is worth mentioning is the chase scene between Lum and Ruu. They go all over the town of Tomobiki. They go inside of a Fun House and the mirrors surrounding them look great. You see the both of them in so many different angles and positions. They end up flying downtown and the scene was beautifully drawn and animated. That's the only thing noteworthy about this film. It's a pretty generic film and after watching Beautiful Dreamer, it was just disappointing and not entertaining. I can't be too harsh, because it's Urusei Yatsura, so if you love the series enough you're going to watch this film, regardless. I'll admit, Hideaki Anno did a superb job animating some of sequences, good job on his part. The music is good. "Born to be Free" is probably my favorite song in the soundtrack. The other songs are pretty mediocre. This movie gets a 6 out of 10. I would put it below the first film, but the difference in quality is not that big.

Movies: 3 < 1 < 2

Story: 4/10
Art: 6/10
Sound: 6/10
Character: 6/10
Enjoyment: 5/10
Overall: 6/10