Let's break it down. tl;dr at the end.
Animation: 9 - slightly subpar compared to the other Gundam 00 seasons, but still very visually interesting. The time that was put into the Gundam 00 HD aspect is unmatched as far as any action anime goes for the last few years.
Sound: 8 - The sound quality was definitely a step down from what I was accustomed to (having just finished watching Gundam 00 season 1 and 2), but was still done well. Background music was used fairly well.
Characters: 0 - In many aspects, the characters were trash. There were various characters that we held no emotional value to, new concepts within each character that the audience was given no explanation about, and they are truly emotionless and/or faking everything. I didn't care at all about any of the characters. Even the good ones that they ruined just for this terrible movie.
Story: 0 - Let's see....The first 1/3 of the movie was a crappy version of Gundam 00, the second 1/3 was written by a child, and the last 1/3 was a direct rip of Eureka 7 done poorly cooked with the stew of "THERE IS NO STORY THAT MAKES SENSE" stew...put on a slow simmer. It was completely uninteresting. I found myself expecting a huge action scene and instead was feeling sleepy. HUGE FLOWER OF HAPPINESS IS TERRIBLE.
Anyone that mindlessly VOAT 5'd this movie never watched it. Its rank deserves to hover somewhere between 2/5 or 3/5. After watching the series, this movie should completely shatter any expectations you had for the movie. In short, don't bother buying/downloading the 1080p version.
tl;dr - Same animation/sound as Season 1 and 2, but the rest sucks after that.
EDIT: This was originally reviewed January 21st, 2011. 10 years later in August 9th, 2021, I can clearly tell you that it's still absolute trash upon revisiting this movie. Pretty lights and sounds, bad abuse of characters that I loved for no reason.
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Agreed. The movie sucks.
You forgot to mention how terrible the alien antagonists were or how preachy and horrible that ending was. Why did only setsuna and marina get closure?
Ye you're spot on - the movie was bad. Even the eye-candy battles weren't that much fun, since instead of the usual mech vs mech, pilot vs pilot type of battle, we had mech vs thousands of stupid silver darts. And the huge flower at the end made me laugh very hard.
I agree with you completely. Even though the story felt off, I had hopes for a decent ending to make it into a mediocre follow up to the series.
However, the last 3 minutes of the movie left me godsmacked and wondering if it was some sort of joke - unfortunately it wasn't. I don't mind the typical Japanese idea of a ending (with all ensueing vagueness with it) but this was just rubbish. If you ask me, the ending was inspired by the hippies in the 60's and totally unsuitable for Gundam...
Unfortunately, I must agree, however the animation work deserved more praise