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Picking up where the original series left off, Scott Bernard continues his search for Rick Hunter and the fate of the SDF-3.Picking up where the original series left off, Scott Bernard continues his search for Rick Hunter and the fate of the SDF-3.Picking up where the original series left off, Scott Bernard continues his search for Rick Hunter and the fate of the SDF-3.
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Richard Epcar
- Vince Grant
- (voice)
- …
Eddie Frierson
- Louis Nichols
- (voice)
- …
Mark Hamill
- Commander Taylor
- (voice)
- …
Yuri Lowenthal
- Marcus Rush
- (voice)
Melanie MacQueen
- Marlene Rush
- (voice)
Chase Masterson
- Janice
- (voice)
Edie Mirman
- Maia Sterling
- (voice)
Iona Morris
- Jean Grant
- (voice)
Arthur Santiago
- Alex Romero
- (voice)
Gregory Snegoff
- Scott Bernard
- (voice)
- (as Greg Snegoff)
- …
Michael Sorich
- Sparks
- (voice)
Kari Wahlgren
- Ariel
- (voice)
Dan Woren
- General Reinhardt
- (voice)
- …
Rossy Aguirre
- Maia Sterling
- (Spanish version)
- (voice)
Saúl Alvar
- Expeditionary pilot
- (Spanish version)
- (voice)
Yamil Atala
- Sparks
- (Spanish version)
- (voice)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe producers, at the time of production, were not legally allowed to make this film appear to be a sequel to the Japanese series "Super Dimensional Fortress Macross (1982)" or use any of its main characters. To avoid this appearance, characters from the original "Robotech (1985)" such as Minmei ("Minmay" in the original Japanese) and Lisa Hayse ("Misa Hayase") were scrapped due to their similar sounding names. The one returning character, "Rick Hunter," was able to be used because his name sounded nothing like the original Japanese ("Hikaru Ichijô") and his appearance was drastically altered as to not resemble the original character. This was also the reason why Maia gave her heritage as "half alien" instead of being more specific (half Zentraedi, being the daughter of Max and Mirya).
- GoofsVince Grant eventually orders the abandonment of the Icarus and evacuation to the Ark Angel. However, when the Ark Angel takes off, the "abandoned" Icarus is shown flying right beside it.
- Quotes
Vince Grant: If we make it out of this alive, my wife's gonna kill me.
Scott Bernard: Looking forward to it, sir.
- Crazy creditsThe end of the broken film at the beginning of the title sequence fits with the other end of the broken film from the opening credits of the original 'Robotech' television series.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Music of Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (2007)
- SoundtracksIt's You
Written by Ulpio Minucci and Marcia Woods
Arranged and produced by Scott Glasgow
Performed by Chase Masterson
Featured review
a good effort wasted on fussy fans
Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles is the long awaited sequel to the Robotech franchise that started in the 80s. Its release was met with very mixed fan reaction and reviews ranging from amazingly awesome to downright terrible.
I am a "late comer" to Robotech, having only discovered the classic series recently thanks to dvds and youtube. My first impression was not a good one and only season 3 of the original series made me not dismiss it as overly dramatic, hyped up anime trash.
Robotech the Shadow Chronicles was entertaining but inconsistent. It is very obvious that there were different directors and writers working on different parts of the movie.
Story - The good points of the story was that it was easy to follow. It lent itself well to the setting of the movie. However, the creators make the assumption that the viewer already has a level of knowledge concerning Robotech since little time is devoted to flesh out the backstory, and this would tend to alienate new viewers.
Characters - A very varied bunch of characters with well defined personalities. Only the main cast gets any significant development though. Most of the characters are likable and the dialogue interplay between them fits very nicely. Their character redesigns are very attractive and still keep the essence of the originals. On the other hand, once again the creators assume that the viewer should have prior Robotech knowledge and thus character back stories are just glossed over.
Animation - Inconsistent in both the 2D and 3D. For the most part, the 2D art is a good balance between detail and animation fluidity. Vibrant colours complement the attractive character designs and smooth character movements. However the few animation short cuts used can be quite obvious and jarring and the "zoom in to face close up" shot is slightly over used. In the 3D department, there are scenes of amazing quality, like The shot where Scott Bernard is flying is Alpha Fighter toward the invid Hive to look for Ariel. Another well done 3D scene was the Haydonite mecha invading Space Station Liberty. The quality in those is equal to that of high production value anime movies like Sky Crawlers. However, at the same time, you get really shoddy 3D work like the invid mecha and the human space cruisers.
Choreography - I do not know if it was just inexperience, or that the directors were trying to be true to the original.......but the fight choreography of the space battles looked like they came straight out of the original 80s anime. This is not really a good thing since this is a 2007 production. In the original anime, to save on budget, mecha would zip across screen locked in a set pose, enemies would disappear in gaudy balls of flame and space cruisers exchange volleys of fire while making no attempts at evasive maneuvers, basically on screen movement of mecha and spaceships were kept to a minimum. Robotech the Shadow Chronicles continues that tradition. Mecha are locked in a set pose as they zip about screen, there is minimal mecha part movement, spaceships do disappear in gaudy out-of-place looking balls of flame.
All in all, Robotech: the Shadow Chronicles is a good effort by the creators. Especially since for most of them, especially the directors, this is their debut production. Perhaps their only mistake was continuing the mistakes of the original series. The sometimes campy dialogue, derivative music(the original robotech theme seemed ripped from Superman), limited mecha animation and inconsistent production standards were all carried over from the original series. Of course, this would spark the "keeping true to the original" debate again among fans.
I look forward to seeing the next installment of the Robotech saga but I do hope that the creators learn from the mistakes of the original series and Shadow Chronicles.
I am a "late comer" to Robotech, having only discovered the classic series recently thanks to dvds and youtube. My first impression was not a good one and only season 3 of the original series made me not dismiss it as overly dramatic, hyped up anime trash.
Robotech the Shadow Chronicles was entertaining but inconsistent. It is very obvious that there were different directors and writers working on different parts of the movie.
Story - The good points of the story was that it was easy to follow. It lent itself well to the setting of the movie. However, the creators make the assumption that the viewer already has a level of knowledge concerning Robotech since little time is devoted to flesh out the backstory, and this would tend to alienate new viewers.
Characters - A very varied bunch of characters with well defined personalities. Only the main cast gets any significant development though. Most of the characters are likable and the dialogue interplay between them fits very nicely. Their character redesigns are very attractive and still keep the essence of the originals. On the other hand, once again the creators assume that the viewer should have prior Robotech knowledge and thus character back stories are just glossed over.
Animation - Inconsistent in both the 2D and 3D. For the most part, the 2D art is a good balance between detail and animation fluidity. Vibrant colours complement the attractive character designs and smooth character movements. However the few animation short cuts used can be quite obvious and jarring and the "zoom in to face close up" shot is slightly over used. In the 3D department, there are scenes of amazing quality, like The shot where Scott Bernard is flying is Alpha Fighter toward the invid Hive to look for Ariel. Another well done 3D scene was the Haydonite mecha invading Space Station Liberty. The quality in those is equal to that of high production value anime movies like Sky Crawlers. However, at the same time, you get really shoddy 3D work like the invid mecha and the human space cruisers.
Choreography - I do not know if it was just inexperience, or that the directors were trying to be true to the original.......but the fight choreography of the space battles looked like they came straight out of the original 80s anime. This is not really a good thing since this is a 2007 production. In the original anime, to save on budget, mecha would zip across screen locked in a set pose, enemies would disappear in gaudy balls of flame and space cruisers exchange volleys of fire while making no attempts at evasive maneuvers, basically on screen movement of mecha and spaceships were kept to a minimum. Robotech the Shadow Chronicles continues that tradition. Mecha are locked in a set pose as they zip about screen, there is minimal mecha part movement, spaceships do disappear in gaudy out-of-place looking balls of flame.
All in all, Robotech: the Shadow Chronicles is a good effort by the creators. Especially since for most of them, especially the directors, this is their debut production. Perhaps their only mistake was continuing the mistakes of the original series. The sometimes campy dialogue, derivative music(the original robotech theme seemed ripped from Superman), limited mecha animation and inconsistent production standards were all carried over from the original series. Of course, this would spark the "keeping true to the original" debate again among fans.
I look forward to seeing the next installment of the Robotech saga but I do hope that the creators learn from the mistakes of the original series and Shadow Chronicles.
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- xamtaro
- Jun 13, 2009
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- Robotech: Shadow Force
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- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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By what name was Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (2006) officially released in India in English?
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