Atom User Reviews for Shin Ultraman
Surprisingly enjoyable
Hiroko Asami for best waifu of 2023! I also liked the duality between Shinji Kaminaga and Alien Mefilas. In fact, I wish it had been explored just a bit more. All and all, thank you Shinji Higuchi and Hideaki Anno for continuing the "Ultraman" franchise.
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I give it four stars because of the old school Ultraman in the beginning. The rest of the movie is ehhhhh.
Movie sucked so bad
Fan service at its best. But also nearly no surprises. CGI for some fights was pretty good but you could usually tell it was cg. Not enough polygons by a long way. Still the story, acting, and heart were all in the right spots and I had a LOT of fun watching it.
It tried to do too much, too quickly. A shallow shell of what could have been.
An enjoyable movie that you can watch without having to know a lot about the franchise but has some subtle nods for the fans. Though with hideaki anno involved I wished it could have been a little more "out there" at times.
I'm a pretty big fan of Ultraman and Shin Godzilla and this made for an interesting contrast against both. Maybe best thought of as 4(ish) episodes of the original Ultraman run remade as a very-nearly-anthology movie (somewhat literally, since it just takes the plot of…
If you enjoy old school Japanese Kaiju movies this is a must see.
Great trip down memory lane.
As a fan of the original series, this adaptation served up everything I loved watching growing up! Ultraman ultra-fans should not miss it!
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Metacritic
What I can’t help but miss in all this is the poetic free spirit and deep human interest that once defined most things associated with Hideaki Anno—his concerns, it seems, have shifted from individual to structural, and perhaps people just aren’t so compelling to him anymore. Higuchi’s evidently having a great deal of fun, however, and surely has more of those rubbery monsters up his sleeve. He’s doing fine.
It’s an exciting picture, a smart picture, a fascinating picture, and a wonderfully weird picture.
Tongue-in-cheek but never campy, Shin Ultraman is an object lesson in how to reboot a superhero franchise for modern times.
