SummaryCritique
Personal Critique
5 stars (of 5)
To me this is the definitive UY movie. It's packed full of classic Urusei Yatsura antics that may not be challenging to the mind, but heck, who cares? It's just plain fun. It stays very true to the whimsical spirit of the TV show which none of the other movie does so well.
As always, Ataru is a lot of fun to watch. His characterization was perfect. Lum is especially gorgeous in this movie (yes I know it's animated but geez, whatta babe). Benten really shines in this movie, even though she hadn't been fully recognized as a major character at this point of the TV show. I think they made a good choice to focus a lot more attention to her for Only You. I found Elle to be exeptionally compelling for a one-shot movie character.
It would have been the perfect UY experience if this movie was done a bit later when characters such as Ryuunosuke, Ryouko and Kotatsuneko show up. The whole film would then have a more well-rounded feel, but still I'm grasping at straws for critisisms.
This movie has a distinctive feel to it that is reminscent of pulp science fiction movies from the 1950's and early 1960's. While I am more partial to the 70's and 80's brand of cheesy sci-fi that UY usually tries to mimic, this is a nice change of style. The soundtrack is also spectacular. A nice varied range of music style that has that fantastical 50's sci-fi sound, but with all of the trappings of UY music. In my opinion this is the best UY movie out of the lot. This is what Urusei Yatsura is all about. Nearly everything I've come to love about it is here in this movie. It's one of my all-time favorite movies. It also serves as the perfect introduction for newcomers to the Urusei Yatsura universe.