Dissapointing.

I had plans to fly to Japan to see this film on opening day, but I'm glad I never followed through after seeing the DVD.

I don't mind the original story getting truncated for the sake of cramming the whole saga into a two hour film, nor even a lot of main characters buying the farm, but there's a lot of loose ends that are never fully explained.

Finding the ship, the plan to bring her back to life, throwing Gamilas with Iskandar, and just a distinct lack of battles to show what the Yamato can do with and without her wave-motion gun.

The acting was typical Japanese over the top, which didn't bother me, and I actually liked, ... I don't know, I just don't feel like I've seen a true live action adaptation of the cartoon I saw when I was younger.

I didn't get a sense of majesty and might from the ship itself, the one main character that wasn't shown off to any great extent, but shown to do her stuff. I think I would have preferred the old red and white paint scheme on Okita's old flag ship, and then see the Yamato rise in massive glory later on as a juxtapposition to the "newer" but battered vessel.

I never fully understood leader Dessler (Deslock's) motivation for going after Earth. I mean...why not go after Mars?

The plot point about no Anti-Radiation device (Cosmo-DNA) and Kodai's radiation immunity.

It was a quick moving movie in terms of story presentation, and some good dramatic moments, with a kind of "in your face" anti-war message at the end (sappy with Yuki and her son running on cratered green fields aftet Yamato bights the big one).

I don't know, I guess I'm too old for this thing. But, if that's the case, then why do I still enjoy the original Star Wars and Empire Strikes back?

Any responses here?