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Another Unholy Abomination of Anime


God. Dear God. This was a travesty.
I'm a bit astounded to see how many people love this thing. It really doesn't make any sense. It's also incredibly stale in the plot department - there's a bit too much crossover with the equally nauseating Macross II (100s of years in future of original, revisiting and reactivating old computer, Eve's watered down look is a dead ringer for Ishtar).
The new ADV dub is sad. The thing is infantile enough in Japanese without it being compounded with a lifeless dub. The battles are rediculously random, the plot meanders about, and the characters are all from central casting (Sean is a complete ripoff of Char's look from Z Gundam).
Megazone 23 Part I was a classic, but II and III pile on the cliches.
I will say that the Wachowski Brothers should be writing some seriously big royalty checks to the creators of the Megazone trilogy, because there are some conspicous parallels between the stories.

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So you do know how to make a sentence without a curse! Congrats!

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Sorry but you can't tell me what to do.

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You may think you did, but you didn't. Sorry bub.

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part 2 was pretty good...

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it was ok, methinks.

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i liked the music in the first one the most. but i might like the sequals a bit more.

and i don't see how you can think that the third megazone is so bad. i didn't really find anything wrong with it, except for 3 or 4 poorly animated scenes

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It was boring, pointless, and had little to do with the first 2 movies. It's like they were greenlit to spend some production money, so they did. Both me and the wife found ourselves drifting off many times throughout the movie, because it was so boring compared to the first 2 parts. The whole franchise was recommended by someone who told us the first 2 were good, but the 3rd wasn't.

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