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Macross Plus: The Movie

1995 · 115 min

A stylish, emotionally charged sci-fi drama with thrilling dogfights and a haunting AI menace.

Genres
Action, Adventure, Animation
Overview
Three decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, the U.N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming fighter aircraft by running tests on the colony planet Eden. Military test pilots and former childhood friends, loose cannon Isamu Alva Dyson and the Zentradi mixed race Guld Goa Bowman, are selected to each pilot a new aircraft (Shinsei Industries' YF-19 & General Galaxy's YF-21) for Project Super Nova, to choose the newest successor to the VF-11 Thunderbolt variable fighter which is currently still in use by the U.N. Spacy military forces. Their own personal grudges end up disrupting the tests, and begin to wreak havoc on the program.

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • obsession
  • betrayal
  • technology
  • redemption
Places
  • space
  • big city
Era
far-future
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action8
Horror2
Humour3
Realism4
Romance5
Tension7
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Macross Collection

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  2. The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012Short film · 1987
  3. Macross 7: The Galaxy Is Calling Me!Short film · 1995
  4. Macross Plus: The MovieMovie · 1995 This title

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Genres
action, adventure, animation, science fiction
Directed by
Shinichiro Watanabe, Shoji Kawamori, Yuji Moriyama
Written by
Keiko Nobumoto
Starring
Takumi Yamazaki, Unsho Ishizuka, Rica Fukami, Mako Hyodo, Kenji Utsumi, Megumi Hayashibara, Banjo Ginga, Koichi Kitamura
Music
Yoko Kanno
Cinematography
Akihiko Takahashi, Takashi Azuhata
Runtime
115 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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