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      Adieu, Galaxy Express 999

      1981 2h 15m Sci-Fi Animation List
      Reviews 87% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings An idealistic teen continues an intergalactic quest to avenge his mother's murder. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Not exactly as good as the first but still a worthy sequel. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie takes an hour to really get moving. Going WAY off script from the source material, the movie revisits the conflict from the original and borrows from other popular works in science fiction (Star Wars, 2001, and one I can't really mention because there's one helluva scene that comes from it) to do it. At times, it becomes too much of an action movie, which doesn't fit 999's identity at all. Tetsuro settled deep in the trenches of a war zone before re-joining his journey to adulthood just doesn't mesh. Thankfully, the movie regains its composure of being poetic, beautiful, and sometimes horrifying in its second hour (The arrival to 999's final destination is worth the price of admission by itself). It's worth it in the end, but it's strange how it chooses to retrace its tracks rather than continue on its journey, which could end in a similar fashion but still feel like a continuation rather than a sequel. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Leiji Matsumoto's classic anime gets a movie sequel. Set several years after the end of the first movie, young Tetsuro is older, wiser and now a freedom fighter with the universe still in the grip of the Machine Empire. A message from Maetel urges Tetsuro to once more board the Galaxy Express 999 train. They visit Maetel's planet where she was born in the hope that he'll see her there but he doesn't. Finally on the planet Mosaic they reunite and go on another adventure. Tetsuro passes the point of no return with the train now set to go right into the heart of the Machine Empire and stop at the terminus on the planet Great Andromeda where Tetsuro hopes to defeat Queen Promethium once and for all and end the tyranny of the machines. A brilliant movie which ends on a cliffhanger of sorts. It was supposed to bring about a conclusion to the whole saga with Tetsuro leaving his childhood behind and becoming an adult. There are old and well known characters returning. Aside from Tetsuro and Maetel, we have the conductor, Queen Emeraldas and Captain Harlock who is given a more prominent role in this movie. New faces can be seen in the mechanical woman, Metaimena who takes over for Claire, who herself sacrificed her life for Tetsuro's sake in the first movie. She comes across as rather haughty and self-centered. As with the original, the animation is fairly good for the time and does a fine job of featuring the interestingly bleak and overtly mechanized future that spans the entire galaxy. Top stuff from Matsumoto. One of the best anime movies ever. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Leiji Matsumoto's classic anime gets a movie sequel. Set several years after the end of the first movie, young Tetsuro is older, wiser and now a freedom fighter with the universe still in the grip of the Machine Empire. A message from Maetel urges Tetsuro to once more board the Galaxy Express 999 train. They visit Maetel's planet where she was born in the hope that he'll see her there but he doesn't. Finally on the planet Mosaic they reunite and go on another adventure. Tetsuro passes the point of no return with the train now set to go right into the heart of the Machine Empire and stop at the terminus on the planet Great Andromeda where Tetsuro hopes to defeat Queen Promethium once and for all and end the tyranny of the machines. A brilliant movie which ends on a cliffhanger of sorts. It was supposed to bring about a conclusion to the whole saga with Tetsuro leaving his childhood behind and becoming an adult. There are old and well known characters returning. Aside from Tetsuro and Maetel, we have the conductor, Queen Emeraldas and Captain Harlock who is given a more prominent role in this movie. New faces can be seen in the mechanical woman, Metaimena who takes over for Claire, who herself sacrificed her life for Tetsuro's sake in the first movie. She comes across as rather haughty and self-centered. As with the original, the animation is fairly good for the time and does a fine job of featuring the interestingly bleak and overtly mechanized future that spans the entire galaxy. Top stuff from Matsumoto. One of the best anime movies ever. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis An idealistic teen continues an intergalactic quest to avenge his mother's murder.
      Screenwriter
      Trish Ledoux
      Production Co
      Viz Video, The Ocean Group
      Genre
      Sci-Fi, Animation
      Original Language
      Japanese
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Oct 20, 2019
      Runtime
      2h 15m