Review of Venus Wars (1989) by David T — 16 Aug 2007

Venus Wars is a textbook example of that dreamy, ambitious era that was the late 80's anime industry: after a generation of geeky guys raised on the first wave of anime had worked their way into positions of power, but before the realities of box office failure drove the industry to safer pastures of TV and girly romance.

Venus Wars is a lush, highly detailed, occasionally hard hitting space age war movie with a lot of ambition. Too much, actually, as the animation occasionally stumbles and the script struggles to hold the story up.

Still, it's a pleasure to watch the vivid (if shallow) spectacle unfold. They really DON'T make 'em like this anymore.