In a fantastical future inhabited by machine-bodied people and space pirates emblazoned with the 'skull'n'bones', a young boy swears revenge against the mechanical despot who killed his mother and, along with a beautiful but mysterious woman, takes the intergalactic train 999 to Andromeda in the hope of obtaining a powerful, immortal machine body in which to carry out his plans. Compared to the elegance of modern anime, the animation is a bit crude and the story, although interesting, is a fragmented and episodic. I watched an English-dubbed version, which was OK but music was overly-melodramatic and there was a pretentious, almost self-parodying voice-over epilogue. As I never saw the film as a kid and so can only judge it by my current 'adult' standards, but I wasn't overly impressed. There are a lot of anime I would recommend to neophytes before this but I am not a reader of manga and have only a basic knowledge of the genre and its film interpretations, so my opinion comes with an asterisk.
Review of Galaxy Express 999
