BEAUTIFUL DREAMER is atypical, even for an anything-can-happen series like URUSEI YATSURA. Its an ambitious film that asks questions and goes places that UY doesnt normally go, and while Im all for stretching boundaries and pushing envelopes, at the end of the day this is an Lum movie without any musical segments, with precious little Ataru comedy moments, and where some of the funniest characters are relegated to the background while the majority of the exposition is left to the un-funny, responsible types like Sakura. U.Y. purists may be advised to stick with ONLY YOU.
On the other hand, its easy to see where Oshii and his staff would be hungry to work on a different kind of URUSEI YATSURA story. After more than a hundred TV episodes and a feature film that to Oshii felt like an extended version of same, the urge to stretch creative muscles must have been overwhelming. Ultimately I think this kind of reality-bending storyline is held back by the URUSEI YATSURA framework; U.Y. is a show where anything and everything can happen and usually does, and when were confronted on a regular basis with aliens, storybook characters come to life, robots, military hardware, mythological deities and ghosts, we can hardly be expected to give BEAUTIFUL DREAMER the awe-struck reception such a storyline asks for. Its a gutsy move, using an established franchise like this; the deconstructive, what does it all meanplot device wasnt the clich in 1984 that it would be twenty years later.
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