Anime fans it's been at least two weeks since we last spoke to each other and as such I thought I would review a movie that I honestly haven't reviewed before now and after seeing this film I don't think i'll be reviewing the movies in this on going franchise for reasons that i'll most likely get into later on in the review if I remember to that is. This is a film that along with it's first sequel I actually own on DVD and I think it was one of the first anime (be it an anime film or an anime TV show / series) that I bought on DVD but I could be wrong about that tho either way tho anime fans join me as I review the dubbed version of the film that is called simply "Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone" enjoy.
Now here I where I would normally tell you about the plot of the film and as well as give you my thoughts about the plot of the film however the makers of this film chose to do me favour and not give this film a plot. Which if i'm being honest this is the first issue that I personally had with the film since there's no story at all being told which means that there is no reason for me to care about any of the films characters and nor is there any reason for this films existence which is a shame because when this film wants to be good this film can be really good it just needed an actual story to help make those things that I thought were good in this film seem great but that's just what I think about this films lack of an actual story anyways.
As you can no doubt tell by the title of this post i'm doing this review based of the dubbed version of Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone and so starring in this film is Spike Spencer as Shinji Ikari and Allison Keith as Misato Katsuragi. Also starring in this dubbed version of the film is Colleen Clinkenbeard as Ritsuko Akagi , Greg Ayres as Kensuke Aida , Jerry Jewell as Kaworu Nagisa , John Swasey as Gendo Ikari , Justin Cook as Toji Suzuhara , Kent Williams as Kouzou Fuyutsuki , Monica Rial as Pen-Pen and Phil Parsons as Shigeru Aoba.
In terms of what I thought about the acting that's in this film in all honesty the acting that's in this film is in my opinion really good and I know that that might sound bias since the only version of this film that i've seen is the dubbed and as such these voices are the voices that spring to mind when I think of these characters. However that doesn't make it any less true since all of the actors that are in this film are really anime dub voice actors and due to how this film can at times balance something really dark and serious with something comedic , light hearted and goofy this is a great film to show what these actors can do in my opinion and because of that i feel that the acting in this film is in all honesty really freaking good in my opinion.
Doing the animation for this film is Khara and I think GAINAX but i'm not 100% certain about that tho. As for what I thought about the animation that's featured in this film in all honesty the animation that's featured in this film is alot better then what I remember it being simply because you cannot tell when this film was made since the animation is so good with all the characters having some really fluid movements that it honestly looks like that this film was made and released either last year or very early in my opinion.
Now then from what little research that I did about this film for this very review I found that this film is the start of a four film franchise which is being called simply the "Rebuild of Evangelion" which is meant to remake the anime TV Neon Genesis Evangelion but as a series of theatrically released feature length. While this is indeed a very good idea it does mean that all four of these films run the risk of becoming stale very quickly since the people who grew up watching Neon Genesis Evangelion will recognise certain plot points in possibly all four of these films and while I myself never grew up with Neon Genesis Evangelion I can see die hard fans of Neon Genesis Evangelion getting very bored with this remake film franchise very freaking quickly but that's just what I think anyways.
Perhaps the worst sin that this film commits in my opinion is the fact that in my personal opinion this film is pretty boring in my opinion. Since there's no story at all and as such it means that what should be an easy film to make not only really freaking cool but also really good is now just a boring mess of a film since the film give you no reason to like any of these characters and so your stuck watching a bunch of unlikable characters do things for no reason for an hour and thirty six minuets and that makes this film incredibly boring in my opinion.
Look i'm just going to come right out and say this but in my opinion Shinji Ikari is a really freaking annoying as heck character in my opinion and I think this simply because he doesn't stop whining and complaining. I honestly think that at least eighty percent Shinji Ikaris dialog s him complaining about something heck he even complains when someone asks him to take a bath that's how much this kid must really like whining and complaining and guess what it doesn't make him an entertaining character it makes him an annoying character to watch and this shouldn't be the case because he's the freaking main hero of this film and yet he's the one character that I couldn't stand due to how annoying as heck he was and having you main hero be an annoying as heck character is never a good thing in my opinion since it puts your audience of not only watching more scenes with this character but it also puts your audience of wanting to know more about this character since n one / nobody wants to spend time or even get to know someone who they find to be really freaking annoying but that's just what I think anyways.
Now I cannot remember exactly what the exact running time for this film is but I do know that this film has a total funning time of at least one hour and thirty seven minuets and considering that I both watched and reviewed Zack Snyder's Justice League yesterday watching and reviewing a film that's this short was a good palate cleanser for me personally. However with that being said I d strongly feel that this film went on a bit to long simply because the film had no story to tell and so there was really no need to make this film be anywhere over or anywhere near an hour and a half and with the film being as long as it is but that's just what I think anyways.
Now then boys and girls this film is an action film after all and so that means that I have to talk about the action that's in the actual film itself and in my opinion the action's presented to us in this film in all honesty isn't that bad in my opinion. However the issue is that the action that's presented to us in this film isn't that good either which for an action film is not really good thing and not helping things is the fact that the action that's presented to us in this film is stuff that we've seen done better in other monster / action movies and so the action that's presented to us in this film isn't that creative either but I will fully admit that when the action wants to be good it can be really good but it's just a shame that the action for the most part at best OK and at it's worst boring and filled with stuff that we've seen in dozens of monster / action movies before but that's just what I think anyways.
Overall the worst thing that i can say about this or any film for that matter is that I found this film to be really boring. Yes there are a few good things in this film but for me those good things are vastly overshadowed as well as vastly outnumbered but all of the bad things that are in this film and since i've talked about both the good and the bad things that are in this film in this very review this film I give this film a 4.5 out of 10 from me , as for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got all of the images that I used in this review from either the official Dubbed fandom wiki page , the official Evangelion fandom wiki page or Google Images with oddly enough my preferred website to get images frim this film from being / is Google Images since unlike both the official Dubbing fandom wiki page and the official Evangelion fandom wiki page Google Images has a vast variety of images but I will admit that the images that I found about this film on the official Evangelion fandom wiki page are fairly / pretty high definition as well as fairly / pretty high quality so I say use whichever website that you personally want to use.