Please don't spend money on this.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Blistering performances.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I never watched the TV show or read the cartoon but I really enjoyed this. Maybe it's because I had no source material to go by. I loved the CGI. I don't understand all the negative reviews beyond the fact this it's probably due to people who are diehard fans feeling let down. The look of the film in great and I liked the story.

The year is 2017, I've just finished watching Harlock's end-credits, and I recall watching televised episodes of Capitaine Albator in the far gone days of my youth thinking that by the 2010's space travel would hopefully be as ubiquitous and spaceships as slickly designed and cool as the blue-plated 'Arcadia' or 'Atlantis' as the French aptly dubbed her (she's a girl btw, as all pirate ships are!).I now realize that I will never fly in space, not even in a leaky pod, let alone in a Yamato-style battleship with a death's-head ramming headpiece and clouds of dark-matter billowing behind during interstellar jumps or defensive maneuvers. Yet this film exactly recreated this action in such a phenomenal way, that I will not need to. There is the core concept of a classic space opera, in a few lines. Story and character-wise, there are strong resemblances to the pirate-heroes of old, such that I will forgive the sketchy story- line and the less-than developed personalities. There was certainly enough movie-time here, and I would have been inclined to flesh out & not diverge too much from the crew of the original series, but hopefully after a masterpiece of space artistry such as this, more will come in the near future. After all, the Japanese are well known for not sticking too closely to a particular story-line, so if captain Harlock is broodingly awaiting to be called back to action, I would urge him to polish his boots and feed the bird. Time flies, and we eagerly await!

This one is pretty bad.The film has one disabled character in a lead position, which raised my hopes of diversity. One line of dialogue/subtitle seems to say that he'd be prime minister otherwise and that fortune doesn't favour the "ill-equipped". This may be a translation issue, but I found it pretty offensive.The film is set in a dark future at the end of mankind. Almost all of humanity's women seem to have died out already, and only a few skinny underwear models survive in a population mostly made of men. The evil disabled dude has what seems to be a giant space phallus to shoot spaceships with. Humanity's leaders only seem to seek advice or give responsibility to the good looking. This led us to wonder if this is the logical conclusion to the Zoolander universe. The plot is awful, and frankly makes no sense. I'm not going to spoil it here, but if you want to watch it, know what you're getting into. I normally love bad and cheesy sci-fi films, but this one crossed a line for me.The CGI animation is good though.

It is currently 3:37 am in Boston Massachusetts right now. I took the time out from going to sleep,just to comment on how bad this movie was....So much plot holes!!! The movie started off pretty cool, I was excited for the visuals, it seemed like boy was about to embark on a journey with these pirates and one dimensional characters!... Harlock seemed so cool.Halfway into the movie, it was all about the boy's past and him flipping sides, which he ended up doing like 4 times. His brother has no other emotion but anger, non justified anger I might add. Harlock is insane and the crew still follows him after they learned that they were mislead for all those years. The ending leaves you with a stupid look on your face. I kept wishing that it was going to get better...The plot has ZERO foundation. It holds a theme for twenty minutes at a time. 30M dollar budget for the greatest CGI I've ever seen, horrible story, should've spent some of that money on the script, heck give me six figures and I would've sat in Starbucks all day for a year typing away.Did I mention one-dimensional characters? Sorry, I'm done and off to bed... I feel like I have just finished my civic duty to mankind.