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Zeta Gundam: New Translation: Heir to the stars

Damn that's a long ass title.

The first 20 minutes of this movie has some insane pacing. Oh, hey here's our protagonist Kamille, and he's now in a Gundam with Char, and now his mom's dead, and his dad's in a mobile suit and he's dead too and Kamille's dad was in a love affair..... wait WHAT? I swear these first 20 minutes had such a fast pace that I was only figured out what was going on in the last scene in the middle of the current scene.

The assault on Jaburo had a lot better pacing though with Bright coming back in another white base. I don't mind the Titans as villains but the movie seemed really terrible at explaining them. From what I understood before looking it up on the wiki, the Titans were the Earth Federation that had some Zeon ideas, gone rogue. They eliminate 3 "major" villains during this movie but I never felt anything for them as they didn't have any development.

Kamille is interesting but he doesn't have any development, let alone establishing his character. He's pretty much the Newtype that has a tendency to hurt anyone that pisses him off, but more in a childish way. And he has a cute girlfriend.

I like the design of the Mark II Gundam a hell of a lot more then the original, as its bulk and sleek panel designs along with its coloring make its black and white pop out more. Rather then having the bland "American" color scheme of the original.

The use and transition to new footage is super weird. I couldn't tell the transition happened in the original movies because the series and movies were made so close together. Since Zeta came out in 1985 and this movie came out in 2005, the transition is a lot more obvious. Along with the use of new footage being interspersed randomly at points.

For example, there's a scene where Char is talking to a guy in a control room and its new fooatge. Char walks out the door and it switches to original Zeta footage as he's talking with Kamille. Then, they both walk down a hallway and its new footage again!