Picking up shortly after the "Wing" ended, this movie is a perfect microcosm of it's origin program. Lots of action, intrigue, new characters, and best of all- new versions of the Gundams from the "Wing" series. Oh, Merry Gundam-mas everyone- these things are AWESOME! It may cheapen this movie into an excuse just to sell toys, but how can you not love these invincible juggernauts?! They look great and just blow up everything in their way! Sweet, sweet, 'splosion porn everyone! Come get some!
Okay, serious notes. The film suffers from the same draw backs it's predecessor did. Too preachy. Too many big speeches about how right and/or wrong war is. And all packed into a short movie rather than spread out over a long series. You get some more background on the Gundam pilots, a couple new and semi-important characters are introduced, and a new conflict starts and is resolved with the help of our band of heroes.
The art is pretty good, each Gundam looks fantastic as does the cannon fodder their put up against. The sound f/x are everything you'd expect from a show with the word "Gundam" slapped on the tin, and the soundtrack is pretty sweet, too. I especially liked the featured song, "White Reflection" which sounds like the soundtrack to a training montage where Rocky Balboa is training to be a Gundam pilot. Sub vs. Dub is actually a win for English dub, to me they just sound better. Especially Scott McNeil as Duo Maxwell, he just sounds like he was born for the part.
I really liked this movie and I recommend it to any fan of the original show. I liked it so much, it's actually one of my favorite Christmas movies. (My favorite being "Die Hard") I wish it could have been drawn out into a longer set of OVAs, but this does well with a short run-time. A wonderful cherry on top of the action packed sundae that was "Gundam Wing". 7/10. Check it out. Cheers!
