Good movie but grossly overrated

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Let's review, Sailor Moon is an older anime, it is one of the first to gain worldwide fame along with the likes of "Dragonball" and "Dragonball Z". Unlike those two, it was a show meant for girls but somehow managed to attract a male audience also. I suppose it has nothing to do with the super heroine attire, fact they function as a team, and otherwise are out and about in a typical plot of the day episode. Actually it does; but the series also spawned a few movies.One of them goes by the name of "Sailor Moon R" after the series that was running at the time. This movie features an alien that resembles Ail and Ann of the short mini-arc that ran during the first ten episodes of Sailor Moon R. He somehow drifts in space for eons, before landing on Earth and befriending a boy in the hospital that has lost his parents. Touching to say the least. He leaves for space due to life force differences (he can't live here), and otherwise wants to find the perfect flower for the young boy. He later returns and events as we know them have progressed.The boy is Tuxedo Kamen; he is actually prince of the Earth and he has a love affair with the reincarnated princess of the Moon from nearly a millenia ago. The alien reappears, learns of this and all disaster breaks free. He is seemingly possessed by a plant and is hellbent on sucking all of the planet's life force dry. This is nothing new here as far as Sailor Moon is concerned, but the fact the plot of the movie focuses so heavily on friendship and what it entails, is definitely new to the series. The rest of the movie is spent between characters either fighting, acts of jealousy or testing bonds of their friendship.There is a happy ending, and it plays out similar to the first part of Sailor Moon R. It makes me wonder if they were not just rewriting it for a movie or if the movie itself was rewritten into that series for syndication. Either way, the movie has better writing than the series normally does and is a good view for fans of the series. Casual anime viewers may appreciate the shoujou genre and art that this series is known; all make it into the movie.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/? p=6218).

I was lucky enough to be given a fansub of this movie many years ago, before I really knew anything about the original version of BSSM. It might sound corny, but this movie changed my life. I knew the dub playing on television wasn't the real version, but I didn't know how much had been changed, or how much better the original was, until this! The "R" in the title stands for "romance, but the theme of this movie is definitely loneliness. Mamoru was lonely when he lost his parents as a child, Fiore was lonely when he had to leave his only friend, the Senshi were lonely before they met Usagi. . . the only thing I would have to disagree with is that Usagi is the answer to all loneliness. But then, Usagi is the answer to just about every problem in BSSM, so I shouldn't be surprised :-P . What surprised me about this movie when I first saw it was that this wasn't some dumbed-down little girls' show like the television dub made it out to be. The characters were much less one-dimensional, the plot darker, the voices infinitely less annoying, and it was my first exposure to the recurring theme of homosexuality in BSSM. Fiore is like an obsessed ex-lover of Mamoru's rather than an estranged friend. This is good not only for the comic relief of the girls' speculations on Mamoru's sexuality, but also that Fiore is a very sympathetic character-- even those uncomfortable with homosexuality (as I was when I first saw this) can't help feeling sorry for him, knowing Mamoru will never return his affections the way he wants. The crew interview compares the movie to _Romeo and Juliet_, which may be a bit much, but their Shakespearean influence definitely shows, as this is by far the most beautiful and dramatic of the BSSM movies.

This is the best EVER Sailor Moon material I have ever seen and I have watched everything there is to watch about sailor moon and I think this takes the cake and in case your wondering, I am talking about the japanese version because I havent seen english version but I am told that alot of awesome and great scenes are cut out so I do not want to see it, Bye :)

This movie teaches that the power of love is powerful enough to overcome many obstacles! There is something I really like about this movie and that is that it teaches two lessons. Firstly that love is a very strong feeling that helps anyone as I said before overcome many obstacles; and secondly that true friends are there when you need them, and they stick by you through thick and thin. Well this movie is highly recommendable for people of all ages. I hope when you watch it you like it as much as I did.