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Customer Reviews

It's okay, not good, not bad

2004-04-03
I thought this movie was okay. It's background was excellent, but the characters could have had more work on. Their heads looks strangely too big for their bodies. The story was sort of cliche ish. (Boy beats up big bad monster.) the story also seemed rushed, one second the story drags, then the next the movie throws something new, then heads back for dragging again. It doesn't flow, (like Princess Mononoke, Titan A.E. those are excellent animated films) This movie also seems to "copy" from the movie "Laputa: Castle in the Sky" which is better. Overall it's an okay movie,

But i think it's only worth watching 1 time.

Sour grapes from Valencia 2004-03-12
I don't know what chip the reveiwer from Valencia has on his/her shoulder, but it's clear this person must live a bitter life. I tend to side with the reviewers from Tampa and Commerce. This movie was made for entertainment purposes, and should be viewed as such.

I found this animated tale appropriate, and "entertaining" for my children. With the current crop of movie's available geared more towards teens and adults, it's nice to find one that, as a parent, I don't have to worry about foul language, or scenes that will give nightmares to the younger viewer's.

Most reviews provided by the public are given in earnest, and should not be subject for ridicule. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, even Valencia.

Therefore, it is my hope that potential buyer's read these review's with a grain of salt, and take the opinion of one parent, that this movie is indeed worth sharing with your children.

Great entertainment for the entire family! 2004-03-02
I found the story unique, and the characters believable. My kids were quickly drawn to Joshua, and the struggle against the machines. The animation ranks right up there with the big boys (Disney, Dreamworks, Pixar, etc.). The attention to details of the machines and the surroundings, helped to keep our interest. We only wish rather than being a single movie, that it was a series. So we'd know there'd be more adventures to come.

Would higly recommend! 2007-03-24
My boys were so devasted everytime we returned Aero-Troopers to the video store, so we bought our own copy! Master 6 and 4 just love this movie and have fun role - playing the characters out in the backyard and building Lego Nemaclises (sp?). We have bought copies also for their friends, who in turn think it's a cool movie too. A great movie and highly entertaining for young boys!

It's like ReBoot took a giant dump on Last Exile... 2006-05-15
I just finished watching this, um, "movie", and I feel that it is my humanitarian duty to warn the viewing public away from this great crime against brains.

Perhaps you saw the cover of the DVD while tripping balls, or maybe you're blind. Whatever your reason for considering this purchase, I urge you to reconsider. But where to begin? The character designs are hideous, and somehow at the same time forgettable. Mark "I Peaked at 20" Hamill provides his standard "Sort of Sounds Like The Joker" performance for at least two characters. The plot is laughable. The editing, if indeed it can be called editing at all, is choppy and inept. AND OH, GOD, THE DIALOG!!! Everybody talks like a third-grader with a thesaurus. Seriously; the Eye of Argon has more believable dialog. And I'm surprised at how ridiculously BAD all the scenery is, especially since they made it so easy on themselves by setting the whole flipping movie in THE BIG EMPTY SKY. I have seen more professional flash files than this on newgrounds. Seriously.

All of this doesn't even consider that the entire concept of the film was lifted wholesale from "Last Exile", which is made all the more infuriating when you consider that Last Exile is *superlative* in every way. I'll tell you what; Amazon sells the Last Exile Box set. If you're jonesing for high adventure set among the clouds, with sassy young pilots dogfighting a mechanical monster with a mysterious past and having snappy dialog on-board cool airships, I PROMISE you that buying Last Exile from Amazon is a much better plan than watching this steaming heap.

Not sure I saw the same movie 2005-05-08
I am not sure that I saw the movie that the other reviewers saw, or understand their rationale for recommending this film. What I saw made me very sad, some good design ideas executed badly. The nicest thing I can say for the script is that is is free of profanity, otherwise it has all the earmarks of fan fiction written by a ten year old who watched STAR WARS too much.

The lighting and surfacing team seem to think that the best way to represent the real world is to crank the keylight up to 200 and throw in a soft focus filter.

The charecter design is the visual equivalent of GUMBY and I can only think the designer phoned her designs in to a team of chimps in the Amazon. They have no rib cages and bend in strange and wonderful ways...none realistic.

To say the animation is wooden is to insult Pinnocio. The best thing they could have done is to put some CG Strings in so you thought you were watching re-run of some obscure "Super Marionation" series...but then I am am showing respect to Super Marionation.

The animators seem to have never actually seen anything fly and were either asleep in Physics or cut class.

I also watched this movie with my Ten year old son (who wants to be an animator like his father, yes I do this stuff for a living) and we were entertained, but mostly for reasons the producers never intended.

All this having been said I will recommend this film to anyone who wants to see how things, even if well intentioned, can go terribly wrong in a production. I will also say I am buying a copy for my collection, as a cautionary tale for animators

Poor Quality DVD 2004-05-16
I sincerely like this movie, however, the copy received from Amazon.com was in and out of focus, as if filmed on a movie screen for release. Poor quality copy. There are no setting features, special features or any other item to indicate it is a real dvd release. It is not 5.1 sound, not even stereo. Very fustrating to watch due to these many flaws
Jarvis

Not Good by Any Stretch of the Imagination 2004-05-04
I recently had the displeasure of having to suffer through this god-awful "movie". Where do I start. With the horrible voice-over narration by Mark Hamill (?) that sounds like he's got a head-cold? With the almost non-existent plot? With the poorly designed and poorly animated characters? I just don't know what the makers of this film where thinking. Everything moves like its in slow motion. If I had to guess I would say this started off a a series of "cut-scenes" for an abandoned video game project that the makers decided that they could savaged by linking the separate cut-scenes together with a few voice-overs. This is what it plays like. It jumps around from one plot thread to the next. Characters are introduced then forgotten about. As one reviewer said, there just is no story flow. If you're looking for an orginal animated feature set far, far away, rent Titan A.E. instead. That's a real movie that was sadly ignored at the box-office. Bottomline - if the cover of this movie actually makes you want to rent it, go for it. But of you look at those characters and can't help but laugh, stay away.