In recent weeks, the big news locally has been the test market release of the ROBOTECH MOVIE - THE UNTOLD STORY. According to the majority of the fans I have spoken to, most enjoyed the movie, although there have been a few complaints. The main complaints centered around the Southern Cross scenes. Several fans would have liked to see more Megazone 23 segments or new animation instead of the rehashed Southern Cross scenes. It also didn't help that the Southern Cross scenes seemed blurry as the TV series was filmed in 16mm. Positive aspects outweigh the negative ones by a longshot. A beautiful soundtrack (including a piece by Three Dog Night), some wonderful new animation that was not painfully different from the original, and a good storyline that actually made one think! The ROBOTECH MOVIE has had several good reviews by critics, and it is to be hoped that it will succeed and convince others to bring Japanimation to the big screen in this country.
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SYNOPSIS: The year is 2027. The Earth is rebuilding following the unsuccessful alien invasion that took place fifteen years earlier. The United Earth Government has begun research on a miraculous alien science known as "Robotechnology". As far as the world leaders are concerned, the Earth is safe from any further threat of alien invasion. Unfortunately, these world leaders are not aware of a second alien armada which has made the journey to Earth from hyperspace and now plans to avenge the destruction of their original fleet and recapture the secrets of their lost technology. To do this these aliens, calling themselves the Robotech Masters, devise a plan to infiltrate the ranks of the military branch of the United Earth Government and catch their enemies off guard. Their plan is simple. Bioroid warriors capture Colonel B.D. Andrews, a high-ranking military officer assigned to the Northern Province of the Far East Sector of the newly reconstructed Earth - the home of the Robotech Research Center. By a sophisticated method of bio-genetic engineering, the Robotech Masters construct a clone of Colonel Andrews. [The footage for these scenes are the same scenes from Southern Cross where the all-too-human soldier Seifrietti Weisse (who became Zor Prime in Robotech) is originally captured and brain-washed by the Zor Lords (the Robotech Masters in Robotech). Never mind that Seifrietti and Megazone 23's B.D. look nothing alike.] This clone will return to Earth and be the means by which the Robotech Masters gather information and ultimately forma a strategy to defeat the forces of the United Earth Government. The simulagent of Andrews succeeds in taking over the Robotech Research Center [in reconstructed Tokyo] and begins subspace transmission of information from data banks salvaged from the original alien ship which crashed on Earth and began the whole inter-galactic war. The Robotech Masters' plan would have gone without a hitch if it weren't for Todd Harris, a soldier involved in the initial battle where Andrews is captured. Todd does not buy Andrews' explanation of the battle in the Northern Province of the Far East Sector. Todd feels as though Andrews is concealing something. He goes A.W.O.L. and steals a powerful mobile database terminal, the MODAT 5. Todd's only hope for getting to the bottom of this mystery is his best friend Mark Landry and a shadowy figure known only as Eve. Agents working for Colonel Andrews break up a meeting between Todd and Mark. Mark manages to get away on the MODAT 5. Todd is not so lucky. And now what started out as a reunion with an old friend turns into a nightmare of intrigue and danger for Mark Landry. Mark's search to find out what has happened to Todd leads him into a maze of confusion and an ultimate rendezvous with Eve. Mark is told by his girlfriend Becky Franklin that the only Eve she knows is a popular rock star who hosts a television program. Mark attempts to contact Eve and get to the bottom of the mystery of Todd Harris and the Modat 5. Unknown to Mark, Andrews' agents are able to track down the Modat 5 with the help of Eve. They stage an ambush for the unsuspecting youth. Mark manages to elude the trap [and discovers the transformable nature of the Modat in the process]. His search for the truth leads him to a meeting with Eve. What he discovers when he comes face to face with Eve confuses him even more. [In actuality, Mark sneaks into the studio where an Eve video is being filmed, and discovers that the star is a computer program.] It turns out that Eve is nothing more than a holographic projection--a computer-generated image which everyone thinks is real. Mark's entire world is crumbling around him. Eventually Eve contacts Mark and gives him information concerning the threat posed by the Robotech Masters. She tries to enlist Mark's aid in exposing this secret invasion. She lead him to the Robotech Research Center and the massive super-computer which generates Enhanced Video Emulation (E.V.E.). Here, following an attack by sophisticated Robotech weapons systems, Mark succeeds in defeating Andrews [in a Modat vs. Hargun duel]. The alien simulagent takes this opportunity to confuse the issues. After this impromptu meeting Mark is even less sure of the truth. He is told by Andrews that Todd is wanted for questioning. He is told that Todd has gone over the edge and suffers from paranoia. The entire story about the supposed alien invasion was merely a fabrication constructed by the E.V.E. Computer to bring the Modat 5 back to the Robotech Research Center. Mark does not believe Andrews. It all seems too convenient, too neat to be the truth. Mark leaves, taking the Modat 5 with him. He warns Andrews to stay away or he will expose what he and his friends know about the "alien invasion" to the media. Unknown to Mark, General Rolf Emerson under direct orders from the Supreme Command of the United Earth Government is engaging the alien fleet in space. They attack using a battle plan devised by the E.V.E. computer programmed by Col. Andrews. The results of the battle leave the Earth forces crippled and virtually helpless if the aliens should decide to stage a full scale invasion. Mark tries to explain his problem to Becky, but they fall on deaf ears. Becky is trying to pursue her career as a dancer and she feels that Mark has been drifting out of her life. Mark cannot convince her of the danger he senses. He tries to put it all behind him and accompanies Becky to a to a rehearsal only to be out-maneuvered by Roger Burke, the sly director of Becky's musical. Mark's life has become a total mess. He manages to redeem his self-respect when he saves Becky from a compromising situation with Roger. [He bursts in the hotel room in Battloid mode, snatches her, and with Roger agawk, leaps out.] Becky doesn't appreciate Mark's interference [and gives him a good slap to show it] and tells him to leave her alone [leaving Becky to march stoically home, wearing only a hotel bed sheet]. The alien plan is getting closer to completion. Programmers in the Robotech Research Center feel that the broadcasts ordered by Andrews are not correct. [What Macek has failed to mention in his synopsis is essential plot element that the Andrews simulagent's main mission was to download the contents of the E.V.E. computer, which arrived on Zor's battlefortress in 1999, back to the Masters; E.V.E contained data vital to the survival of their civilization. As soon as the simulagent replaced Andrews, he immediately set to this task, while simultaneously developing the flawed battle plans for the Southern Cross forces.] They contact Daryl Embrey, the minister of computer science, and tell him of Andrews' mysterious transmission [into an ostensibly dead satellite - really the Masters' ship]. Embrey orders the transmissions to stop. This forces Andrews to take matters into his own hands. [While the preoccupied Mark and Becky are doing the horizontal hip shuffle in a local hotel, Andrews] stages a military take-over of the provisional government of the Far East Sector. He uses the take-over to initiate martial law and track down the Modat 5. He succeeds in finding and killing Kelley Stevens, a twenty-year old film-student who along with Becky, Mark and Stacey Embrey have made a film of the Modat. When Mark discovers this brutal act, it turns him into an impassioned avenger. He vows to find those responsible and make them pay. His first stop is the massive underground computer complex. Following a battle with Andrews' forces, Mark eventually comes face to face with the alien simulagent. Andrews defeats him and leaves him for dead. Andrews' only concern is Minister Embrey. He is the only factor standing in the way of the Robotech Masters' plan to defeat the Earth. [Embrey is on the way to the airport to leave the sector to inform Supreme Command of his concerns about Andrews' activities and to obtain their intervention.] Eve revives the fallen youth and implores him to fight for his world. He is the only one who can stop Andrews and save the Earth. He makes a supreme sacrifice and drags his battered body into battle once again. Eve promises to help the Robotech Defense Force [oops. . . Macek must have meant the Southern Cross] defeat the Robotech Masters. Together they might succeed in saving the planet from destruction. [From this point on, all the footage is either comprised of new animation, or that from Southern Cross. The Southern Cross footage is almost entirely taken from the Robotech episode "Danger Zone", where the 15th ATAC downs a Robotech Master flagship. However, the voices in the animation are not those of Dana's squad - this movie is totally unconnected to the particular events of the TV series.] Mark appropriates a powerful weapon system [a "Puruuto" or Pirate(?) from Megazone - a slender fighter with barrel-shaped engines on the wings that, for the Robotech Movie only, apparently has a Hargun Battloid as an escape pod] and stages an all-out attack on Andrews' troops [a motley assortment of tanks, Harguns, Space Harguns, and perhaps even a speculative design or two found only in the back of the Megazone 23 artbook]. While he battles for the lives of his friends [Stacey and her father, who are in an airplane that's being shelled], Rolf Emerson, with the aid of the E.V.E. computer, defeats the armada of the Robotech Masters [they down one ship of many in the footage]. Mark must face Andrews for a third time [his fighter is hit, and he ejects in his Hargun life pod, and dukes it out with Andrews' Space Hargun]. Driven by courage and fueled by vengeance, Mark defeats Andrews. The world is safe--for the moment. 2ff7e9595c
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