Rebuild of Evangelion

Has anybody watched this yet?

Short review:
To watch this movie, the watcher must have at least some idea what Evangelion is. Cause it's just a compilation of the anime series with the frills cut out. If you have watched the series, you'll enjoy the technical scenes with remade graphs and animation. If you haven't, you're (not) alone with the confusion.

Long review:
The movie is as the title says: A rebuild of Evangelion. The series is taken, pulled apart, scenes remade with modern CG, the frills taken out and it all put together to make the movie. As a fan of the series, I enjoyed the seemingly different but similar scenes of how the system fails, the little scenes included of the strategy planning for the fortress angel and Shinji's travels to Tokyo-2 and back.

As the series starts, Shinji arrives in Tokyo-III just in time for an angel attack. Angel number 3 (for which shall be henceforth known as No. 3 cause for my life I can't remember its real name) is plummeted by the tax payers' money and revels in it while Shinji remains confused, wimpy and rebellious to his father. After some mental manipulation by Gendou in the form of Bandaged!Rei, Shinji is literally pushed into the entry plug.

Same as the series right?

Well yeah. Nothing much more to add there. Except that new scenes that were inserted includes the outright declaration of Gendou's manipulation of his son for himself and an ending of (a naked) Kaoru's Entrance from out of the a box out of several boxes on the moon.

I say: do watch the movie if you want to relieve your memories of this excellent series. If you have yet to watch the series, You might be confused at the technological jargon used in the series but you can enjoy the techie bits of animation involved and Shinji's mental breakdown under his parent's pressure. Its $10 definitely well spent.

As a new generation of anime watchers view it, as what happened for the last time the Eva series was shown, I shall say it:

Let the Debate begin!


Edit!

Please try not to throw anything at the screen after the crooning of Utada-san just cause they didn't show the preview for the next part! Or the ending was that abrupt!