I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Hello!AS A MOVIE, this is simply GODAWFUL.(YES, I have seen the entire TV series, which I considered quite good overall.)This movie was slapped together with zero thought, effort, or money, and was released ONLY to GET MORE CASH. NO other reason.As far as I can tell, the first 2/3's of the movie is simply an incomprehensible mishmash of sections of the TV anime series randomly strung together.I am NOT joking!A section from the end of the TV series will be followed with a section from the beginning, then the middle, in a nonsensical way without rhyme or reason.One scene from the series, was split into two or three different parts spread out through the movie, with them trying to pretend that it was a different scene, every time! (Since I've seen the entire TV series, YES, I understood completely WHERE each scene was taken from, and what it's importance was within the TV series, BUT, the way it was edited together for the movie, made no sense whatsoever!)Robot battles would erupt with no reason, and end. A scene would occur BEFORE a required scene setting it up; which would only show up later.The last third is the first actual new stuff (Yes, yes, some die hard fan will point out that maybe a couple of minutes of new stuff was added to the first 2/3's of the movie, to which I say, so what? The extra couple of minutes added NOTHING.)Now the LAST third, the new material, was almost watchable. HOWEVER, the movie ABRUPTLY ends, right in the middle of a scene, with no resolution of any kind, NOTHING! Just BLAM!, over! (presumably because they were too cheap to add any more.)AND, since the cheapskate, lazy, tightwads that put this garbage together, completely REPEAT this NEW section IN IT'S ENTIRETY, as the beginning third of the next movie, "The End of Evangelion", you don't even need to watch that part!So the final word?Watch the complete TV series, "Neon Genesis Evangelion". (WARNING: Many people don't like the ending of the TV series "Neon Genesis Evangelion".)SKIP the incomprehensible garbage money grubbing movie "Evangelion: Death and Rebirth".THEN, watch the movie "The End of Evangelion". (WARNING: Many people don't like the ending of the movie "The End of Evangelion".)I GUARANTEE, you WON'T miss anything worth watching. You'll save yourself from watching endless, cheapskate, lazy repetition after repetition with no point whatsoever (except to make the lazy, greedy filmmakers extra money).DON'T believe the people who say that this movie is too complex to follow without having watched the TV series. That is absurd nonsense. I think they're only saying that to sucker more people into watching this garbage, along with them.Don't be suckered in!My 2¢ worth.Karl

Just watched this after not having watched any Evangelion material for many many years. Supposedly it is a new ending from the TV series. I cant confirmed as i stopped watching the series before its conclusion. Watching this reminded me of why I stopped watching the series...basically I cannot stand the main character Shinji. I found and still find the character pathetic and absolutely disgusting. I could not find any attachment to him and so the story arch and the philosophy of the ending to me was a by product of the weak, self pitying, pathetic Shinji as opposed to any philosophical message. The movie shows him after he have been reduced to a pathetic useless self pitying mess. The battle scene and the ending sequence was very well rendered. A must see if you are a fan of Evangelion

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.

This movie is incredible. I have seen this in japanese, and i really enjoyed it...it recaps the movie, then brings on the new ending...any Eva fan will appreciate it *note* this movie should be watched by parents firast and deemed appropriate for those under 14, in fact, they shouldn't watch it at all