Watch Episodes Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Kidou Senshi Gundam I Gekijouban, Mobile Suit Gundam Movie 1 Japanese: 劇場版 機動戦士ガンダム I 特別編 English: Mobile Suit Gundam I Spanish: Mobile Suit Gundam I: La Película French: Mobile Suit Gundam Film I More titles InformationType: Movie Episodes: 1 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Mar 14, 1981 Producers: Sotsu Licensors: Nozomi Entertainment, Bandai Entertainment Studios: Sunrise Source: Original Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi Themes: Mecha, Military, Space Duration: 2 hr. 19 min. Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older StatisticsScore: 7.241 (scored by 27,827 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #30862 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #3362 Members: 47,161 Favorites: 103 Available AtResourcesStreaming Platforms |
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Jul 13, 2008 Chag Recommended Mobile Suit Gundam: the Movie Trilogy is the definitive incarnation of the massively influential Mobile Suit Gundam TV series. It may not be perfect, but it definitely deserves its lofty status in the history of anime as a proven classic. As one cannot have one part of the trilogy without the others, this review will cover all three of the compilation movies. The first question on any new viewer's mind regarding the story of Mobile Suit Gundam: the Movie Trilogy (MSG) would be: "Do the films condense too much story from the TV series to fit into its limited run time?" The answer to that is ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 29, 2009 Parabellum25 Recommended The Gundam franchise holds a very special place in my life. Going back to my first exposure to it, my 11 year-old self was rather indignant that this new "Gundamn Wing" show was going to be replacing my favorite cartoon Dragonball Z. I now know that my local network was simply attempting to introduce a new, more serious anime and using the DBZ timeslot was a perfect test-drive. And I was hooked. A serious story, political drama, and giant robots, what wasn't there to love? As I put more research into this strange new series, I learned of course that it was only a small ... Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 1, 2010 PC14106 Mixed Feelings Story: At first it seemed pretty messed up. I couldn't distinguish between the good guys and the bad guys but then innocents got killed so yeah. The story started slowly with a little display of conflicts, nothing wrong here. The problem is that it kept dragging on till the first hour and a half. I got sleepy there and had to take a break. However the "second part" got a lot better because the actions made more sense and some characters got development. Art: The art part was good for such an old movie, the chara design was great, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Oct 27, 2021 GundamIkimasu Mixed Feelings Now, I may be a little biased, but I really really love Gundam. It's one of my favorite things, UC Gundam especially. The Original movie trilogy is my typical go-to if someone wants to experience the original story, as 40+ episodes can be pretty daunting to someone who is interested in Gundam but not yet ride-or-die, y'know? But, I always lay it out like this- The first movie is kind of a tough watch in lots of places. Read more Open Gift Report
Aug 26, 2023 AronSensation Recommended I first watched the original Mobile Suit Gundam series from 1979 when I was in high school and I first started to get into the anime medium. Back then I wanted to learn more about the history of anime and Mobile Suit Gundam is definitely one of those foundations the expanded anime to the western world. Before Pokémon came along, the craze was all about Mobile Suit Gundam toys and games in the 80s. Read more Open Gift Report
Mar 2, 2016 Paraturtle Recommended Story: I really enjoy the gray area nature of the narrative. Both the Federation and the Zeon have a cast of characters that are only fighting ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 25, 2021 ktulu007 Mixed Feelings The Gundam franchise is one I've talked about a few times. Half of the time, Wing and Iron-Blooded Orphans, it's been good. The other half, 00 and 8th MS Team, has been mediocre to sub-par. This time, we're going back to the beginning. To be specific, we're watching the first recap film based off the original series. Story: Our narrative is set in the distant future when humans have formed various colonies in space to handle our growing population. In this climate the Zeon colony declares itself independent from the Earth federation and they go to war. We open in the Side 7 colony where ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 2, 2019 siphus007 Recommended Engaging from beginning to end and holds up like a gem. And despite having a fair amount of action, it's the the fleshed out characters and sharp, tense writing that surprised me, and make this a great intro into the series. Story & Writing: 9/10 Avg: 8.8/10 Beyond just the action and intense mecha battles, Gundam I also has a terrific balance of drama, character development, a flawed protagonist, memorable enemy characters that you slightly cheer for, and very realized factions on each side. The story starts off quickly, but takes time to world build and allow for slight realism of letting us watched inexperienced ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 30, 2020 HereLiesWaste Recommended I was very impressed by the original Gundam trilogy. I haven’t seen the series, but these films managed to be much more coherent than I had expected, considering they had to condense something like 20 hours of footage into about 7. Even more surprising is that at least two of them - the first and last - manage to be totally functionable movies in their own right, both of them featuring something like a distinct beginning, middle, and end rather than the general homogeneous ‘this thing happened then that thing happened’ that can easily emerge from turning a tv series into a film. This makes ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 4, 2022 BibsMcF Mixed Feelings This is the first in a trilogy of films adapting the original Mobile Suit Gundam series in a paced up yet still incredibly long format. This can very safely be watched in the place of the series, but you do trade some scenes for better overall animation quality. The first film covers the events of Amuro Ray's first flight in the Gundam all the way up to the fight with Garma Zabi. The animation is passable, improving on the original in terms of avoiding stock animation (mostly) but still keeping the charm of the original's very saturated colours, large, blocky mobile suit designs and cute ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 29, 2023 Strange_Hero Mixed Feelings This is my second full exposure to a Gundam series--the first being Gundam Build Fighters--though I'd consider this to be my first 'main' Gundam series as, after all, this is a condensed version of the series that started it all. For true Gundam fans, the original series is a must-watch. But I'm not sure if these movies warrant such praise. In fact, this film felt like a horrible way to introduce yourself to Gundam's core story. The first hour is pretty confusing: yes, you clearly understand that this is a war between the forces of good and evil. Yet, characters aren't fleshed out enough for the ... Read more Open Gift Report
Aug 4, 2021 md5fungi Recommended While I write this review, it's the year 2021... So I need to first off mention that Mobile Suit Gundam hasn't aged very well. There are definitely unintentional laugh-out-loud moments because of cheesy lines and occurrences. That being said, the world-building here is pretty incredible. The story is incredibly convincing, and as you follow Amuro and Char, their personalities, ambitions, motives sink into you and really resonate. This is clearly the start of something HUGE and great, and the movie excels at this sort of exposition. That being said, the movie ends "in media res", because it's really meant to be watched with the subsequent movies of ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 3, 2022 robert788 Recommended Mobile Suit Gundam I (1981) 1981, what a time to be alive. Imagine this coming out and seeing such a profoundly different style of the show, especially with how different politically the world was back then with what was appropriate and what was not. The movie 1 of 3 culminations covering a series to a certain point brings home some pretty old ideas, age roles and gender roles. A story desperate enough to push children into action, women into most basic roles always second best and an old outlook on life. This itself is a piece of history that should not be forgotten. Women can ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 28, 2022 GwenPineapple Recommended Surprisingly well held up visuals for an anime from 1981, and some real nice sounding audio design. It's lacking in the striking visuals of something like Eva, which comes out much later, but nonetheless remains a visually pleasing piece of work for its time; it sort of has a "rustic charm" to it. The real star of the film is the characterisation of Amuro and his struggle with PTSD, which grows over the course of the film to excellent pacing, until he's incapable of sleeping or eating almost entirely, barely being animated for anything but the Gundam he pilots. It completely does away with the cultural ... Read more Open Gift Report |
