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| Rent | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | Jack Walrath | # | |
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I did not like this one as well as the first four, but it is still a decent movie. It is an nice story and a decent conclusion to the series, but I did not the story as involving as the first three and I felt the minor characters did not have enough time on their own. Also, this is when Kitty Studios started to pull back on the movie's budget, so the movie is not as well animated and the the older character designs work for many of the characters, but I did not think they worked with Lum's Dad and Kotatsu Neko at all. For the note, this movie was based on the final storyline in the UY manga.
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| Buy | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | Kaitou Juliet | # | ||
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I'll warn you right now: if you're hoping the series ends with a wedding, you're going to be disappointed. For me, though, it ends on just the right note, with both a grin and a tear in the eye. And getting there is well over half the fun! The new characters and their storyline are one of the strong points of this movie. Rupa and Carla's bizarre love-hate relationship makes for some great scenes, especially the one where Carla crashes Rupa and Lum's wedding after roping in Ataru to pose as her fiancé. But the real set piece is, of course, the reenactment of the original game of tag which started everything In this movie, we get to see Lum and Ataru's relationship in all its wonderfully warped glory: all the hopes, fears, cross-purposes, understandings and misunderstandings, and yes, the affection that really lurks deep down. It's not one of those love stories where you're expected to sigh and think "I wish that were me!" Instead, it's a story of how two different and difficult people come to terms with each other. In that sense, Urusei Yatsura is a lot like Takahashi Rumiko's other popular romantic comedy, Ranma 1/2. Last updated Thursday, November 01 2001. Created Monday, October 01 2001. | ||||||||
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