Macross 7 Movie Review By Rashad Moore
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	Audience:	13+
	Genre:	Sci-Fi/Action
	Contains:	mild toilet humor (I'm not lying), mild violence, brief nudity and pure stupidity
	Rating:	F

The fourth entry of the Macross Saga, "Macross 7" , was created in order to celebrate the series' 15th Anniversery. But the effort lead far astray in quality when compared to the masterpiece that was "Macross Plus." While the concept had very good intentions, (Toying with the idea of having a rock band instead of just one idol singer, a concept the last three series have been following through with.) the series just wasn't up to snuff. The movie is far,  far worse. Let's just say that it's a complete mockery and travesty of everything Macross stands for.

Taking place 35 years after the momentous and cataclysmic battle with Boldolza's fleet during Macross(Robotech), the Earth's surface and whatever life was there was completely obliterated as a result and mankind was faced with the threat of near extinction. Now mankind has built immigration fleets used to travel the galaxy in search of other planets. "City 7"(Macross 7) is home to the popular rock band "Firebomber" led by Nekki Basara. Now a mysterious enemy called the Protodevlin has arisen and the fleets only hope of defeating them lies with Firebomber and their music. In the movie (which spans only 30 minutes!) a strange signal is coming from a snowy planet. Nekki Basara crash lands on the planet in order to investigate. (Even if I spoiled the whole plot for you, you wouldn't miss much.)

First of all, I would like to say that Macross 7:The Movie was a complete waste of time. (Or little time it took up.) It wasn't a compilation or overview of the events of the TV Series(like Macross, Macross Plus and Macross 2.) It turned out to be an amazingly bad episode of an amazingly bad anime. There's no drama or character development.(Instead we get toilet humor, an annoying jumping little boy named Pedro who has no significance whatsoever, and one amazingly cheesy, MST-value music battle between Basara and an unmicronized Meltrandi.) Dissapoinment isn't the word. The climax (which is a huge stupidly contrived final battle with a huge Protodevlin vampire mecha, tends to make you forget your even watching a Macross.(Which is definitely not a good thing.) On the positive side(which there is very little of.) the animation is good, and uh.....Thats it. There's no background music score at all(Just songs) but the worst songs from the series were chosen, leaving you with the volume control set way, way down. Any tension or emotion during the climax was pretty much never there in the first place.

So that's all I have to say, I could write a novel on how impossibly bad Macross 7:The Movie is, but I chose not to. It really is a shame though, Macross 7 had much more potential on it's hands, but the pure stupidity of it all left a very good reason why none of the anime distrubution companies in the U.S. picked it up. Stay far away from this, and if you manage to see this in a theater, have some fruit ready. Macross has always provided it us with human drama, cool mecha, romance and unforgetable moments. None of which you will find here. If you were given two ways to die, choosing anything besides this would be less, less painful.

Available only in Fansub. Image shown is not created by atek studios.   Review by Rashad Moore. Dec 99.