Gatchaman (Region A Blu-ray) (English Subtitled) Japanese movie

Oh Hell YES! if you seeing this them you where probably a fan of Gatchaman (i.e., Battle of the Planets) the anime of the 1970s.Now, 40 years later, this franchise is getting a new anime and a live-action film—which debuted in Japan 2 yrs ago. Sadly, this attempt to reinvent Gatchaman has created nothing but a painfully clichéd action movie BUT with watching.Easily the most entertaining bit of the movie is its first fight. It is excellently choreographed and does a good job of showing how people with super speed and super strength would fight hand-to-hand. Also, the way they fly—which is half-flight, half-jumping off buildings to suddenly change direction—is a ton of fun to watch.When you know that they spent $40,000 per costume (for a total of $200,000), and then you see the film, you can't help but feel that maybe some of that money should have gone to the special effects instead. Every action scene of the movie is a mix of models, plastic sets, full CG, and CG characters pasted over videos of the real world—and you will have no problem telling which is which at any given time.All in all. Its Cheesy action hero fun, plain and simple.

There are at least two versions of this movie that have wildly different subtitles and that change the story in significant ways. I wish the costumes had been made closer to the original design rather than this darked-up "modern" look. The helmets are way too similar and Ryu is WAY too skinny, Jinpei is WAY too old/big, and if they think Jun looks like a swan they missed that by a mile. All that said, it's fairly entertaining even with the sub-par visual effects.

If you are a fan of Gatchaman, youll be a bit dissapointed. The movie itself feels more like a big budgeted Power Rangers knockoff. The storyline has nothing to do with the original show.My biggest complain was that the God Phoenix was used for like only 5 minutes. The coolest part of the show was reduced to a glorified cameo on the movie.I really wanted to love this movie, but if you are a fan of the original series, you will be disappointed.

My husband was looking for this for a long time, he loves it. It's a good movie and stays pretty true to the story he remembers.

Loved this movie, didn't bother me at all that it was subtled. Great story (although it doesn't really follow the anime storyline) but the CGI effects were unbelievable, everything I loved about the 80s anime!

Loved it, brought back Battle of The Planets/G-Force for me in live-action, cant ask for more!Well maybe a dubbed version included, I like subs but I know for a fact some people I know would be put off just for it being subtitled and they'd be missing out sadly. great enjoyable film, 5 stars.

Awesome movie. Really captures the comic book story line.

I had previously purchased the Rurouni Kenshin trilogy so when I bought Gatchaman I knew I was getting an awesome movie and it did not let me down. Package arrived between the dates that was in my confirmation email. I am very pleased with the movie and with Amazon!!!!