Kidou Senshi Gundam 0083: Zeon no Zankou

This was my 2nd full length gundam movie after seeing (in the western world the highly praised 1998 movie Mobile suit gundam wing: Endless waltz, good god in heaven i still love that film)the idea's of dropping colony's on earth and throwing children in war had not been discarded from the gundam saga that at that point this movie came out was 13 years long, but still brought more interesting and evolvement to the story .
The storyline takes a few years after the Big war, and some remnants of the opposite Zeon faction and the infamous Zabi familly line , wich goes back ... to the very first gundam serie's 1979-1980 and the following 3 films compilation and more.
The planet earth is still healing after a colony had been dropped on in the year U.C 79. and for about 13,14 years there has been more war in space that peace in the timeline between the Earth space Federation and the Zeon, and ofc in the midst of war there is that HIGH DEATHCOUNT what gundam is famous for and the flashy spacebattles, during all of that its mainly about the gundam and its kidoperator wich in real life i woulnd reccomend to see sooo much death!!!
For it art is looks right for the time , proffesional early 90's handdrawn anime art, and they always have innovating designs for the mecha's both heroes and villian's, i have seen much much worse from other serie's.
I wanted to put the genre of space opera a bit in here when the space battle begins, it always have some intense opera music bits but also during emotional scene's, if u are used to older anime with stuff like this like i mean u know the drill.
The heroe's always starting out as PUSSIES, hotheaded punks, unfortunatly wich was back than still very stereotypical for the time , u have to bear with it but kinda blows over because much more interesting charachters dropping by, and sending minor-ages pl into war is a bit of a grim concept wich in gundam is fucking normal...... yes it is.
the way how most movies end is when the enemy deploy's it most cruel weapon with a battle that last 20 min or so, that really kept me going and i really liked this film, recommended for the weekends because of the runtime, wich i have no problems with.

I will never understand the reason why Sunrise continue to produce movies like this.

I also do not understand the reason why anyone who has seen the main series, will want to watch this movie also.

This movie is around two hours of different scenes from the main series, combine together to form a movie. First time viewers who has not seen the main series, will struggle to understand what is going on as there is no continuity throughout the movie or any explanation on the plot.

Those who has already watched the main series (which was good by the way), why would you want to waste your ... time in watching a recap movie? No offence to other Gundam movies which condenses the series into movie format (see the original Gundam movie trilogy), when done well, could be a joy to watch. Not this movie though, every scene is about a min or so and the next min will be a total different scene from further up episodes from the series.



In summary, this movie is like the intro to the next episode at the end of each episode of a series. If you like watching that than you will enjoy this movie.

There isn't much of a point to watching this over the original OVA version of Stardust Memories. While I found this film very enjoyable, almost everything done well in this film was done just as well if not better in the original version. The only thing I feel that's done better here is the climax, which feels better paced due to it being in one continuous film rather than split into multiple episodes. Editing the OVA into a film results in much of the content being removed and this hurts the development of characters and the conflict they have to deal with. The first arc ... of the film is also shown as a recap which gets the information across in a time efficient manner, but is extremely boring by comparison to the OVA's opening arc. The only scenario I can recommend this over the OVA version is if you've already seen that version which is what I did, this just allows you to blast through it again really quickly. Other than that, just watch the OVA instead of this.