Odin: Starlight Mutiny [DVD] [2004] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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review by: darkgenius date: 2005-08-14 rating:
Makes 93 minutes feel like four hours
Odin: Starlight Mutiny is, in a word, boring. The story is relatively weak, the animation is dangerously close to awful, and the music is just weird and annoying, making this a film you suffer through rather than watch. It seems interminably long at 93 minutes, and this English version of the film is actually the short version. The original features an additional 45 minutes of action (or lack of it) - I really don't think I could have made it through 139 minutes of this sleep-inducing space tale. pThis film goes back to 1985, so I didn't expect the animation to be on the same level of much more recent anime features. I did, however, expect it to look better than cartoons made decades ago. This film has a washed-out look that renders its color basically colorless, and there is no fluidity of movement to be seen anywhere. Watching this film is like flipping through an infinitely long book of still images - the kind of book that makes it look like the individual static images are actually moving. The modern marvel of spacecraft, the Starlight, looks like it was stolen from Christopher Columbus, featuring actual sails (that work with some kind of neutron-something energy or some such nonsense). The ship basically just sits there; to let us know the ship is actually moving, the artists simply bathe it in a yellow or blue glow. pThis ridiculous-looking ship can travel many times faster than any ship ever made, and we join it on its maiden voyage. Reacting to an SOS call around Neptune, a strange white-haired female is found alive and brought on board, and she provides the key to the events that come next. A crashed flying saucer is discovered on a moon of Uranus, and the Starlight sets off to discover the origins of the alien intelligence. On the way, the crew travel through a magnetic field, encounter several sets of seemingly robotic fighters, get their ship pummeled time and again, and stubbornly keep going. There is plenty of battle action - all of it quite boring - and that's about it. Well, there is that mutiny, of course, and I guess I should mention the fact that the aliens decide to attack Earth while all of this is going on - but that's pretty much a given in unimaginative space epics such as this. As for the Odin reference, it seems that the unknown aliens may in fact be the gods of Nordic myth.pThis film's major weakness is its animation. The terrible graphics undermine the story and everything else associated with the entire movie. I don't know a lot about anime, but I'm pretty sure Odin: Starlight Mutiny qualifies as an oldie but definitely not a goodie.


review by: date: 2000-06-08 rating:
Avoid.
The best thing that can be said for this film is that after about 2 hours it comes to an end. I actually obtained my copy by barter, in exchange for a blank tape. I was done. However, for fans of the best kind of first-series Star Trek techno-babble, there are some real gems in here.

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