Techi Muyo! In Love - Tenchi the Motion Picture
Genre: comedy/sci-fi fantasy Length:
95 minutes (Theatrical Film)
Audience Age: 13+
Opinion: A great video to view and to introduce
those who are unfamiliar with the series.
This is a review of the dubbed VHS version (close
captioned).
© 1996 AIC •
Tenchi Muyo Committee • Pioneer
Entertainment (USA) L.P.
Tenchi and company are watching an eight-millimeter film of Tenchi's mother, Achika, on her high school field
trip to Tokyo (it is 8mm film because
that was what they used in the 70's for home movies. The film has nothing
that would have anything Nicolas Cage would need to investigate). Suddenly, our protagonist starts to disappear and the entire
house starts to fall apart. Luckily, the self-proclaimed, most brilliant
mind in the galaxy, Washu, is able to prevent our hero from vanishing
and explain what is going on. By looking at each individual frame of the
film, the group sees that Achika is slowly disappearing from the reel,
so something must have happened in the past to cause this.
At the same time Tenchi and company are learning
about this wrinkle in time, the Galaxy Police Headquarters is destroyed.
The final transmission:
Class A Criminal Kain...
Who is Kain? Does this have something to do with the
time trouble? No matter what this villain's involvement in this dilemma is;
Tenchi, Ryoko, Ayeka, Sasami, Mihoshi, and Kione must go back in time
to 1970 to prevent anything from happening to Achika. This is the only
way to save their future, and to buy some cool souvenirs from the past.
The
plot of Tenchi Muyo! In Love seems to put too many responsibilities
on the Tenchi cast since they have enough problems handling normal situations
in the "Tenchi Muyo!
OVA series", but you know some how they will pull it out. I think the
only other flaw with the film's screenplay is that like all other anime
motion pictures ("Sailor
Moon S: The Movie" as an example), it just comes across as overly
dark and dreary.
Beside for that script weaknesses, everything else about this film is great except for
the hit and miss soundtrack by "Babylon 5's" Christopher Franke.
I figure if you are going to get a Sci-fi, Western Society composer, get
one with "Star Trek" experience or John Williams (for any of those
nerds who feel I'm insulting Bab 5, e-mail me at bitemeotakus@animeflow.cubs).
All of the technical aspects of this film have really been stepped up
from the prior series, "Tenchi Muyo!" and "Tenchi Universe", which is a real treat
for those established fans of the Tenchi series.
The numerous
qualities of Tenchi the Movie make this a great video to view and
to introduce those who are unfamiliar with the series since all the characters'
quirks overcome the need for exposition about them. Personally, this may
be the strongest Tenchi title since I was willing to buy a new copy after
a anime tape-viewing marathon/fumbling incident destroyed my first copy.
If that is not a great testimonial, I do not know what is.
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