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The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

The Evangelion series itself may well be a true masterpiece, a rare example of a popular work that transcends its commercial origins and enters the realm of great art. Unfortunately, this film fails to really do it justice as it consists primarily of material already seen in either the television series or the film End of Evangelion. Additionally, they redubbed many of the voices for the English version, and the new voices often fall quite short of the old ones (even if they didn't necessarily live up to the Japanese ones to begin with). Touji's lines, in particular, fall spectacularly flat. On the positive side, it does introduce some new and hard to get footage interspersed with some nice musical numbers from Bach and Pachelbel.

The Neon Genesis Evangelion series is one of my favorite animes. One only has to look at my End of Evangelion review to see the degree to which I hold the series.However, Death and Rebirth should come with a disclaimer. There are some who would forgo watching the series and instead watch this and the End of Evangelion. I would strongly recommend against watching this film until after you have seen the full tv series. Death and Rebirth suffers from having to stuff a great deal of story (26 episodes X 22 mins = 9.5 hours) into only two hours. It achieves this by cutting out alot and changing the order of the remaining story. Die hard fans of the series will get it, but I doubt a newcomer would. In all honesty, the new scenes are short, few, and far between.To sum up, watch this after watching the full series and the End of Evangelion. It will be most enjoyed by die hard fans wishing to complete the Evangelion experience.

10/10 for the fact that most of the material was taken from an excellent TV series and a good film.2/10 for the lack of new material and rather uninspired way in which 24 episodes were summarised, meaning that this isn't really a film as much as an overview.Leaving me with 6/10. Couldn't be fairer than that.

This movie is a summary of the previous 26 episodes. I think the NGE episodes worth watching, but if u skipped them, u should watch this movie to have a clue about the second movie. One last word about NGE: It is one of the best anime series I've ever watched, try to watch all the episodes and the movies.