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Information
- A.k.a.
- Harlock: Space Pirate
- Year
- 2013
- Runtime
- 115 min.
- Director
- Shinji Aramaki
- Genres
- Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Rating *
- 6.5
- Votes *
- 7,089
- Checks
- 485
- Favs
- 21
- Dislikes
- 9
- Favs/checks
- 4.3% (1:23)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:1
Top comments
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stexdo
Stunning design for almost every element of the movie. After the first 30 minutes you get used to how good-looking it is and you realize how poor is the story, the dialogues are very stupid and the same cliches that infest its live-action counterparts are also in this one. It features the same "safe violence" that is in all Hollywood movies: it is never shocking, crude or even bloody. Nameless, faceless people just fall without apparent reason. The story fails to bring any interest in the ideals of the characters and it ends up being the usual "save the world" or "save the planet" flat line that has been beaten to the ground by other (and sometimes far better) movies.
The work of the animators is the only thing deserving praise. 10 years ago -
Siskoid
As a French-Canadian kid, I was necessarily a fan of the anime series translated into French that were broadcast here on the weekends. Goldorak (UFO Robot Grendizer), Capitaine Flam (Captain Future), even Candy (Candy Candy). But the most intriguing and mysterious by far was Albator AKA Captain Harlock. Space Pirate Captain Harlock is a 3D animation film based on those old mangas/cartoons, which yes, I did watch in the French dub for old times' sake. Didn't help. Oh, it's not bad, exactly. It's an action-driven space opera about a rookie aboard the Arcadia who is actually a mole for the Gaia Coalition (an oppressive galactic government), who Harlock may yet turn, and several elements are ambiguous and mysterious as befits the original material. But it's also predicated on a whole lot of mumbo-jumbo about time knots, presents bloodless violence that undermines every threat to the characters, and I know this is very much coming from the perspective of someone with a particular fondness for Albator 78, I think it misses the boat by focusing on Gaia and not the plant women at war with humanity in that old series, the Sylvidres (or in English, the Mazone). In fact, most of the elements I found most striking and memorable in the original cartoon series were absent in the film. 7 years 4 months ago -
Blade22
Awesome CGI and pleasant to watch on BluRay
but story is weak and subtitles make dialogues stupid 8 years 1 month ago