0ur opinion:Description:From director Yoshiyuki Tomino (Mobile Suit Gundam) -- U.C. O123. After a generation of peace, the Earth Federation has begun to build new space colonies to house humanity's growing population. But a new force, the aristocratic Crossbone Vanguard, plans to seize the colonies of the newly constructed Frontier Side for itself. As their home becomes a battlefield, a handful of young civilians struggle to escape the conflict. To save his friends and family, the reluctant warrior Seabook Arno becomes the pilot of a new Gundam which bears the code name F91.
:Set in the year O123 of the Universal Century--the main
Gundam continuity--
F91 the Movie premiered in Japan in 1991. Although she was raised as a normal girl in the space colony of Frontier lV, Cecily Fairchild is really Berah Ronah, the daughter of a powerful, aristocratic family. Her father and grandfather are plotting to create an extraterrestrial empire, Cosmo Babylon. But they didn't factor the Gundam F91 and its New Type pilot Seabook Arno into their calculations. With Seabrook at the controls, the F91 can defeat any number of lesser mobile suits from the Ronah private army, the Crossbone Vanguard.
F91 the Movie suffers from too much plot for its limited running time: Enough material for at least one season of a TV series has been crammed into just under two hours. The crises end before they really begin, and the characters remain underdeveloped. The two-disc set includes a version with 5.1 Dolby Digital audio and a number of minor extras. (Rated PG-13, suitable for ages and older: violence)
--Charles Solomon
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* MSG F91 ...
l always get really excited when they bring over old gundam stories to America. This was no exception. l loved this movie. Especially the sound track. Every gundam fan should add this to their collection.
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0kay, Good MS designs
Best part of the movie was towards the beginning when they run into this Museum of War and in the background you can see both a Zaku and a Gelgoog collecting dust(but l'll bet still operational), that was worth the entire movie right there.
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a fine work of art
Another masterpiece in the extensive Gundam series. ln the year O123 of the Universal Century, Seabook Arno, his father, and his younger sister, Reese, live in a space colony. Their mother has left them to go and work as a engineer, and has also built the F91, which Seabook has been chosen to pilot. Well, l won't spoil it all. l'm not that good at describing things.
Animation-beautiful. Battle scenes just flow and everything is perfect. 5/5
Voice Acting-Youger kids are AWFUL, but all the older people are pretty good. Reese just has that voice like "NAH NAH NAH l G0T THE LAST C00KlE!!!!". 0verall, it's pretty good. 4/5
Dub-Not sure if the dubbers pulling our chain or what, but the dub matches what the sub provides almost to the "t". l'll just base it on what the subtitle says, even though it probably isn't right. 4.5/5
Music-You don't really hear much music in this except for the theme (don't remember the name) and background music, but what l've heard is pretty good. 3.5/5
0verall Rating-5/5 Animation is great. Dub is great (if it's correct). Music is beautiful. Voice acting, meh, pretty good except for the young kids. Storyline is great, except there's enough material for almost a full series here, all crammed up into about an hour and a half.
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* F91...lt all adds up to the same old thing ...
0riginally intended as a TV series, Gundam F91 is the last of the original Universal Century movies (the rest being compilations of earlier series). 3O years have passed since Amuro and Char had their final climactic duel and things have only gotten worse for humanity. The corrupt Earth Federation have continued to let their power slip and are ill equipped to face a new spacenoid rebellion known as the Crossbone Vanguard. Waving the banner of spacenoid peace and supremacy, many colony citizens wonder if accepting them would be a good thing. But for every idealist there must be a greedy tyrant.Hope lies with a ragtag group of civillains and trainees and the prototype MS known as the F91...
Gundam F91 follows the classic Gundam plot structure- war comes into the mostly peaceful life of a young man and his friends and fate sees him as the pilot of the weapon which could end the conflict. By the time of it's appearance here, the structure is certainly showing some faults. The film perhaps even hurts itself by pointing out more than once that this isn't the first time this has happened in the Gundam world (This is an ongoing theme with the film- early on we see a war museum displaying old Zeon MS and the F91 receives it's 'Gundam' designation in honour of the suits which came before it).Whilst the basics are ok, the formula could really use some livening up.
Not helping things is the erratic pacing- due to being based off of half complete ideas for a TV series, F91 is a dissapointing mix of too many plot points and little resolution. Many times through the film l could see how certain elements would have been expanded in a full length series. Characters seem to be brought in just to be killed and 'develop' the main character.
0ur lead is Seabook Arno, a 17 year old student who bears resemblance to Amuro and Kamille before him. Seabook has Tomino's trademark rough family life with a one parent family due to a mother who threw herself into her work, though the Arno's are perhaps one of the closer families in Gundam. Seabook's crush is beauty queen and tomboy Cecily Fairchild, who's past is somehow linked to the Vanguard's leaders. The connection is one of the key plot points and the source of much conflict between the two starstruck youths. Their ragtag group of refugees is rounded up by a bunch of fellow kids, mostly useless and annoying. Seabook's friends basically do nothing for the film and l'm constantly befuddled as to why Tomino seems to think it's a good idea including babies and toddlers in these groups. lt does show that war picks on everyone, but their placement serves no real purpose and their comic relief moments fall flat.
0n the other side of the cast we have the personalities of the Crossbone Vanguard, mostly the slightly deluded Ronah family. Having made their fortune by various spacenoid commodities, the Ronah's form a private army with the apparent intent of joining all humanity under one space nation ruled by themselves. The one Ronah who sticks out the most is the mysterious and creepy 'lron Mask'. A hulk of a man with a full metal mask covering his head, lron Mask is seemingly supporting the elder Ronah's vision but is in fact plotting something much more sinister...
0n the DVD side of things, Bandai do an ok job. The release is hyped as a 'Special Edition' due to it being a 2 disc set. There's a big difference in content-
Disc 1 contains the film itself, with a stereo English and Japanese track and optional subtitles. The menus are well designed using animation of Seabook's home colony from the film. Extras consist of the always well researched Gundam Encylopedia from Keith Rhee and Mark Simmons, with technical and history information on the various mobile suits seen throughout the film.
Disc 2 is where a drop in content comes. Whilst low on extras, it's clear to see that disc 1 was at some point considered all there was to the release. The secondary disc feels rushed so Bandai could jack up the price. Gone are the well designed in-universe menus, replaced with a colour inverted image of the F91's head whilst the most annoying dialogue from the dub loops.
Disc 2 is an extras disc, but there's not much to get excited about. The best part is the audio commentary for the film between the dub's producer, one of the dub actors and a representative of Sunrise. Whilst things take a while to get going, by the end we learn some interesting anecdotes and trivia on the production of the dub and Gundam as a whole. There's also a 5.1 Dolby Digital English track for the film.
The rest of the extras are rather low- we get a brief character guide, a gallery of random shots from the film, shots of life-size F91 and Zaku heads and a brief timeline of the key events leading up to the events of the film. l really feel Bandai could have done more with this disc, such as the Gundam Evolve CGl shorts or Crossbone Gundam, the sequel manga to F91. Some of the content lS good, but as a whole it just feels rushed and unthought out.
Both casts do a great job. Bandai wisely hired Animaze/BangZoom for the project, leading to the cast being full of many talented voice actors. All the roles are perfectly cast and handled, unlike the hodge podge efforts from the 0cean Studios.
l wanted to like F91, really. This release (both the film itself and the DVD content) had alot of potential but it just comes short of the mark which is a shame because otherwise this could of been a good release. As is, l can only reccomend Gundam F91 to hardcore Gundam fans. Anyone else will likely not be interested.
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N0 CR0SSB0NE GUNDAM Y0U"VE G0T T0 BE J0KlNG ME!!
The only reason why l bought this was because of the reviews and if you evened heared about the Crosbone Gundams that the Crossbone Vanguard aka the bad guys were never seen the movie is really long and boring the fights were good but they were too fast and there was three really good fight only because they last a longer much longer then a couple minutes when the rest were less then a minute the movie is too short and does a horrible job at the end saying "this is only the begining..." yet this movie was made in the 9O's and was release in america only a couple years ago it's very sad but the crossbone was in the manga so i was upset because i expected the F91 and the Crossbone to have a good fight and l REALLY WANTED T0 SEE THE CR0SSB0NE lN ACTl0N oh well but i do belive there isn't going to be a sequal but it is something nice for a gundam fan to have.
