Thursday, August 8, 2013

Twitch: Fantasia 2013 Review: GATCHAMAN Can't Fly With Clipped Wings

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Fantasia 2013 Review: GATCHAMAN Can't Fly With Clipped Wings
Aug 8th 2013, 22:00

Gatchaman has an amazing opening. The team is quickly introduced, they get to show off their powers, and there's a city-wide fight that involves numerous costumed villains and a fast moving Ferris wheel sized bomb. The scope of the action is epic, events escalate with wild creative glee, and my low expectations blew away in the wind. If this is how they opened things up, what else did the filmmakers have up their sleeve?  Nothing. They had nothing. I'm not familiar with Gatchaman beyond its Battle of the Planets visual iconography, but the screenwriter does a good job of throwing the viewer in the deep end with enough life preservers to keep one afloat. You have a team of people powered by glowing rocks that...

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