Urusei Yatsura Movie 3: Remember My Love

Title:Urusei Yatsura Movie 3: Remember My Love
Remember My Love
Overall:Buy
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Notables: FURUKAWA Toshio
Original Concept - TAKAHASHI Rumiko
YAMAZAKI Kazuo
When Lum was born, a postal screw-up caused a witchy friend of the family not to get an invitation to the celebration. Believing herself snubbed, she lays a curse on Lum—that she will never be happy with her True Love. In the present, a new amusement park has been built in Tomobiki, and opening day finds the whole gang sampling its pleasures. At a magic show, however, Ataru gets turned into a pink hippopotamus—FOR REAL! When Lum attempts to track down the magician that transformed her darling, things start to get very weird, very fast.
[Movie, 1985, 94 minutes]
[edit] The ↗Urusei Yatsura franchise:
OverallArtAnimationCharacter Design MusicSeries StoryEpisode StoryReviewer
Buy 10 10 10 9 9 Jack Walrath [series:279#375]
True, this is not as good as the first two, but it is still a good movie, especially if you compare it to the later Takahashi films produced by Kitty. I like it because it has this nice fantasy feel to it. Sure it is a bit sappy at times, but the different images you encounter make up for it. I especially like the scen where Lum is at the amusement park at night. I also think this film had the best opening credits sequence. You don't see these sequences anymore. I kind of miss them.

Last updated Monday, September 30 2002. Created Monday, September 30 2002.
Rent 7 7 7 7 6 Kaitou Juliet [series:279#137]

It seems each of the Urusei Yatsura movies captures a different element of the series. Only You caught the zany humor; Beautiful Dreamer caught the mildly disquieting surrealism. Remember My Love catches the melancholy, slightly sentimental mood that descends on the series every once in a while, such as in the end-of-summer episodes. It's just a touch bittersweet; for instance, Ataru seems more upset at being a hippo than one might expect. (Of course, the fact that he looks so silly keeps it from getting too sad.) Lum spends a lot of time trapped in a dreamlike world-beyond-the-mirror which also has a melancholy atmosphere.

I'd say this is a respectable UY movie. It's not quite up there with the first two, but it's still worthwhile, especially if you like the "end-of-summer" type episodes in the series.



Last updated Friday, May 04 2001. Created Tuesday, May 01 2001.

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