I don’t care what anyone says, this movie was really good.

There are two Ultraman origins In the original Ultraman is an alien whose ship accidentally crashed into a human ship while chasing an alien criminal and accidentally accidentally killed the pilot Hayata. He felt bad so he merged himself with Hayata to save him. So the two are now one, and other shows in the Ultra franchise follows that too The other one is that Ultraman is the alien who just took on a human form like Ultraseven. As to which one the dad is I'm not sure, I think it's the second one because of when he said "she showed me what it means to be human".

Gigantron and Emi are the only Kaijus that are created for the movie

This movie had no rights being that good. The relationship between Saito and Emi especially was the highlight. It was very gripping.

Ken and Miles would be best friends :)

Inside Out 2 9/10 Orion and the Dark 8/10 Ultraman: Rising 7/10 Kung Fu Panda 4 6/10 The Garfield Movie 5/10 The Tiger’s Apprentice 5/10 Thelma the Unicorn 4/10

Disowning Strange Magic has to be the funniest thing you ever done.

14:40 - they don't EXPLAIN per se, but they drop some heavy hints that later were confirmed by the creators in an interview: professor Sato's words about his wife "teaching him to be human" aren't a metaphor - they're LITERAL. Old man Sato didn't GET his powers, he always had them - he's a native of Nebula M78 (the one mentioned in the stinger), aka Ultra World. He's a freakin' alien - his REAL form is the giant, not the mustached dude. And the reason Ken can go Ultra is because it's in his DNA as an Ultra hybrid.

Animat's score: 7/10 My score: 9/10 Though if AniMat needs to know about Ultraman beyond this movie, I highly recommend checking out their KZfaq channel, and yes, I mean their as in there are multiple Ultras who fight to protect the innocent, including a few who are also family like the Six Ultra Brothers, among the 6 are two that have offspring that are heroes in their own right, and then there's the New Generation Heroes which started with Ginga and will continue with Arc

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Firebreather an animated Kaiju movie with daddy issues too?

Imagine Utraman is part of the Monster verse like Godzilla and King Kong/Kong?

Not gonna lie, even with all that anticipation this film came out good. Maybe not a masterpiece compared to last year's Nimona, but this was an improvement from Thelma the unicorn where so many people cared about the legacy of Ultraman. While true it could've used one more rewrite and act one feels like a total downer, eventually acts 2 and 3 improves and that final battle scene left me with chills. In addition, the animation, score by Scott Stafford, and voice cast does give the feature life as what was promised. But overall, I am okay with the final results. Plus, this was Shannon Tindle's passion project for many years and he finally got to finish it all the way through. Kudos to him and co director John Aoshima for their hardworking talents!!! 🚀🚀🚀👏

To paraphrase your review of the book of life, so that’s why Thelma the unicorn stank, Netflix put some more care into this movie.

This gives off Spiderverse vibes ;)

This movie was unbelievably good :D

Although not the best animated film of the year like Inside Out 2 but still a much better improvement over Thelma the Unicorn.

Ken looks like he belongs in Team Fortress 2. Is he Scout's long lost brother?

The Toku Professor has knowledge of not only Kaiju & Kaijin from the Ultraman series, but on Godzilla, Kamen Rider, Gamera, and Super Sentai/Power Rangers! It's also very funny to see two of his students, Kashima-Kun & Pencil Leapord get into some shenanigans while in his classroom! I had grown up watching these kind of shows and movies becides anime, and Disney, and I still love kaijus and Kaijins, even as an adult! SHWAA!!!

“Shuwatch!”

I hope we get a Kamen Rider movie in the same style as well.

As someone who’s grown up being mocked and ridiculed for liking Ultraman; simply because it looked like Power Rangers. It’s very nice to see an animated feature that actually understands a character I and many others so greatly care about. It may have its flaws; but I absolutely love this movie and hope a trilogy is green lit!

7:00 *ALL RIGHT, I GET IT!!!*

The first time that i acknowledged of Ultraman was in the Fox Box series, Ultraman Tigra

We'll make you a toku lover yet, Matt, we just need to find the right series

12:48 - 13:58 Personally I take Ken Sato over John Dory from Trolls Band Together any day.

Story 5/10 animation 10/10 characters 6 /10 7/10

Bemular and Neronga are Ultraman mainstays, and there are a few cameos/mentions by other Ultra Kaiju like Red King, Eleking, Twintails, Gomora, Peguila, Antlar, Pigmon, and Gazort. Gigantron and Emi are the only Kaiju made exclusively for this movie.

The kaijus that appeared in this movie are from the original show but, gigantron is exclusive to this movie.

Wait, that's ILM? No, seriously, they need more gigs. Also, 14:08 It's that Godzilla dance!

Thank you for bringing this one to attention. It seems that it is worth seeing for animation alone.

(6/10) The Story (10/10) The Animation (7/10) The Characters I give Ultraman Rising (8/10) Not the Best Netflix Movie But a Ultra Great

Finally, AniMatt can trash the insult of computer animation that I left the animation community [AKA Despicable Me 4]

Spoilers ahead: I love how the main antagonist of this movie, Dr. Onda, isn't just some one-note evil villain and he's actually complex and sympathetic with redeeming qualities despite his extreme goal. When his right hand man Captain Aoshima was questioning Onda's goal, I expected Onda to threaten him into submission or straight up kill him as an example so his other men don't question him. But no, Onda was nothing but patient and rather fatherly to the captain as he explained to him why he is doing this, and he brought up the captain's kids, not as a manipulation tactic, but as a way for the captain to understand what is at stake here, as Onda genuinely believes eradicating the kaijus will protect not only the captain's family, but all of Japan. After all, Onda did lose his own family to a kaiju attack and he doesn't want anyone else to go through this pain. And in the final battle, Onda ordered all of his men to escape so they wouldn't have to risk their lives, with the loyal captain refusing to leave Onda until he insisted he leave for his safety. What makes Onda a villain is not his goal on paper, as again, he believes it is necessary to protect Japan, it's the brutal extremes he is willing to go through to achieve said goal, as he is perfectly willing to order his men to kill Ultraman despite the latter insisting that there is a peaceful solution. Not to mention that later on Onda straight up orders his men to blow up Ken's house, nearly killing his dad, and then, when Onda loses in the final battle and activates the self-destruct mechanism of his mech, he neglects to realize that the explosion will take out the whole coastline and kill the thousands of people he was trying to protect in the first place, as he was THAT far gone and consumed by his hatred and bitterness. But as soon as Ultraman uses his powers to shield Japan from the explosion, Onda just...... calmly accepts his fate. No anger, no seething hatred, just..... acceptance.

Cool that the final boss monster is what appears to be my Favorite non ultra Q monster. King joe!

Maybe we’ll learn more in the sequel, if there is one, I hope.

I wasn’t a big Ultraman fan yet I’m was surprised how great the movie is

oi!!! more respect and love to Emi, she baby!

Heres a cool fact about the ultraman franchise the company tsuburaya production that owns ultraman was founded by none other then eiji tsuburaya who happen to have actuly be the one responble for the special effects for the godzilla films

To think Ultraman had a 3 Season anime series before this. It's a totally different story but I do recommend it.

We need an American live-action Ultraman movie like Godzilla with lots of monster battles!

Dude you should go into voice acting.

Zero: First time?

I dont have any knowledge of Ultraman, but i may have seen bits of Easter eggs though (like the Godzilla victory dance). I give this movie 10/10, hoping for the sequel to come by.

The defunct Disney inspired theme park in Japan aka Nara Dreamland had a licensing deal with Ultraman.

Now Despicable me 4 review

The movie is littered with Easter Eggs from the franchise, which does make it worth at least one rewatch, especially the references to the United Artists 1966 American dub of the original series by mentioning the intro in the movie. This is the second time that Ultraman has been animated in America, the first being the doomed Hanna Barbera cartoon from the 1980s that was supposed to be a full Saturday morning series but ended up being a TV movie because the network didn’t want it. It is actually the third overall if omitting the OVA spinoffs and Ultra Nyan, the kitty Ultra., as Sunrise in its infancy before becoming the Gundam/Super Robot studio made a 1979 anime. As a veteran tokusatsu fan since 2008, I feel the complaints about action are a little bit overblown because Ultras don’t always kill the monsters. Some entities like Cosmos were about teaching children that there are more peaceful ways to resolve a problem that don’t involve violence or to find balance with the world around us. This franchise has been through a lot of rough patches, to see its current era where it has life on Netflix, toys displayed at Comic Con, simulcasts on KZfaq and has a crossover with the Avengers in comics is nothing short of incredible. There was a dark age in the early 2010s where Tsuburaya was too broke to even make an Ultra Series and a crooked scum bag stole the international rights to the franchise from the Tsuburaya family through a forged contract, preventing them from making money by selling DVDs of their shows to the rest of the world. It almost seemed like the Giant of Light’s Color Timer would go dark, but then they got a new president from Disney Japan of all places and the company came roaring back to life with new lawyers to get back the rights, an aggressive push to get the DVDs available in the USA and merchandise and branding deals to make the Japanese icon known and visible to the public.

❤️💖 This movie 🎬 marks the directorial comeback of Shannon Tindle and Marc Haimes, the same writers and creator of Kubo and the Two Strings and it been 8 years since these two worked on animated film for so long. I was exited and optimistic for Ultraman for two reasons where one considering the fact it will be directed and written by Shannon Tindle who wrote Kubo and the Two Strings and two is going to be released in my birthday. I do praised the Spider Verse style animation, the action scenes and the voice acting. Although I do have criticisms would be the story and it reminds me too much of E.T., the Iron Giant, Bumblebee and maybe How to Train Your Dragon where you have the main character befriend and found his supernatural creature, makes friend with the creature but then you have the cliché generic evil government agent villains who are going after and chasing the creature either to experiment on him, caged him or doing something awful the protagonist has to protect and saved his friend and protect him at all cost from the evil corrupt government. So yeah it's basically E.T. and Iron Giant but with kajiu. I will give this a watch. 😃😀😄😁😊😉 👍🏻 💖❤️

That was a good movie. Some of the Kaijus remind me of the creatures I would draw. And yes, I see the connection between Ultraman and Waybig from Ben 10. Same powers and everything. And now that I think of it, Baby Emi does have a similar trait to Upchuck, also from Ben 10, but with the adorable face of a barn owl. And the style, now that I see it, does remind me of Kubo and the Two Strings. Saying that, Shannon Tindle and Sandro Cleuzo worked on both films, which is a coincidence, since both animated films have a Japanese cast of characters. Oh and Andrew Chesworth, who worked on Big Hero 6 and also created the Brave Locomotive helped design Baby Emi.

Why have these animated kaiju movies that we've get getting lately been giving off "being trapped in Rumble's shadow" vibes?

I'm pretty sure the movie was already going to be a tribute to Ultraman just with an Ultraman like character instead, there's even concept art but the people at netflix were like "Wanna make this an actual Ultraman movie" so they emailed Tsuburaya and they gave the go ahead since they've been trying to bring Ultraman to the west, with dubs of their current shows and a comic series with an upcoming avengers crossover

Basically, everyone has family issues

Am I the only one who sees ken as kenji but much older from camp cretaceous?

17:25 It still got a 7/10 though so it’s better than an okay movie.

Vin Diesel would love this movie.

5:07 mess

*Gasp* omg! I just realized that the mini short that the one doll with long flop ear look just like the Bunny doll in Ultraman. I did watched it twice.

As a newcomer to the franchise Story 9/10 Animation 10/10 Characters 8/10 Overall 9/10 I feel like this is a movie that people will find either just ok or incredible

So what are your thoughts on Hazbin hotel?

"Many References of Ultraman: Rising" by blunova is a good video about the connections between this movie and the Ultraman series

I don't know about you guys, but I don't really see the diagonal lines in this video that Animat mentioned. Maybe I'll see them better if I watch the film on my tv myself.

This is the best animated movie this year

I just found a Godzilla reference. 14:09

Thanks again, Mat!

A better movie to watch is Shin Ultraman. It's more faithful to the original 1960s television show as it is essentially a modern retelling of it. All the monster fights are spot on and the message in that movie is something greater than being a parent. It's pretty much your typical superhero movie without the parent-child element. And might I add, it does things that Man of Steel fails at in terms of showing the more vulnerable side of a superhero. Shin Ultraman successfully demonstrates the more superhero and eastern cultural aspect of the character in ways I think Ultraman Rising lacks at. Still this was a pretty good movie. Now for anyone who doesn't know a lot about Ultraman, it is essentially like what we have here in the West with Superman and the Lantern Corps, where Ultraman has other members of his kind called the Ultra Brothers. They are all alien humanoids from a far away region of stars called Nebula - M78. The Ultraman series was the first to do a long running tokusatsu series where every new season or series follows a new character and theme but it's just the same repetition of giant superheroes fighting Kaiju monsters, long before Super Sentai (aka Power Rangers). Every new series follows a new variation of Ultraman sometimes given certain surnames like Ultra seven, Ultraman Jack, Ultraman Tiga, Ultraman Dyna, and so on. Just like the Power Rangers and Kamen Rider, Ultraman is still running with new TV shows and movies to this day. One of the OGs of Tokusatsu (Japanese practical and special effects) right next to Godzilla. RIP Eiji Tsuburaya (1901 - 1970).

If anyone is interested, unlike the other Japanese Toku Series that kickstarted the whole genre, Ultraman is much more accessible, as they’re just putting all their shows on KZfaq

I would say the film had a very rough start, especially with the main character being a complete hateable guy, but later when it takes progress, the film is actually really good, and that's coming from me who doesn't know anything about Ultraman, so for me, is an 8/10

So it’s definitely a case of fans getting more mileage out of the movie than a non fan. Well I still want to check this out cause I do like the Kaiju movies.

Next is Despicable Me 4. Oh boy is this gonna be the seal of garbage time? Like Ice Age 5 and Trolls 3 since their previous movies didn’t get that seal but the newest one will. I really hope it will get a high score though.

I’ve seen this movie before and it’s good

I have not watch it but it was released between inside out 2

I loved it

Are you goanna review megamind vs the doom syndicate

Do I need to keep count of how many times someone Insults Lightning McQueen?! 😡

My big problem is the typical stereotype of Japanese with cliches

Definitely giving spiderverse

Hideki Kamiya. If he likes it - it’s great.

It got a better rating than Kung Fu Panda 4 and Orion And The Dark

I thought this movie was going to be bad

3:06😮Omg Dino Thunder Megazord easter egg on the very right!! I repeat, there's a Power Rangers easter egg in an Ultraman movie!!

It got a better rating than Kung Fu Panda 4 but lower than Orion And The Dark

1:21 the only good parts tbh

I am just remind of Batman Beyond 🦇

This film is a great film.

I hate daddy issues!

You should not review ultraman

The movie is good, but you are right about one thing. It's kinda generic, especially when it comes to those tiresome messages about the importance of family in all the shows and movies you've seen before. Another issue is that they don't explore the Ultraman mythos very deeply since no one outside of Japan is a fan of this series. And don't get me started on Kamen Rider, since it got its chance after Saban's dreadful adaptation back in the mid-90s. Speaking of which, why didn't they think about making an animated movie of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers since they want Japanese superheroes fighting giant monsters ? Not to mention, both live-action movies from the past were... well, flops.

I loved this movie

I never watch this film because I started to hate it when I watch the first trailer. I knew it had to be stupid, ridiculous, and too American (with its comedy and writing). I also hate the art style for the characters and kaiju because it looks creepy and ugly.

My favorite animated movie of the year ladies and gentlemen

Please Review The Loud House Now.

STORY: 4/10 ANIMATION: 10/10 CHARACTER: 6/10 TOTAL: 7/10

I love so much this movie and i admit this movie is basiclly Ultra Daddy Issue 😂

今年公開された洋アニメで私が楽しめたのは『オリオンと闇』、『ハズビン・ホテル』、『インサイド・ヘッド2』だけです。

My mom asked me if I could watch this movie because she used to watch it as a kid, it was a nice movie, but i honestly could’ve like to see more kaiju stuff more than the Emi stuff.. T-T

Such a disappointment

I’m getting a feeling this film and Transformers one will be better than both Despicable me 4 and the Wild robot. So that’s all the more reasons why despicable me 4 and the Wild robot should get the seal of garbage.

I would like to see a Japanese dub of this movie

Next is Despicable Me 4. Oh boy is this gonna be the seal of garbage time? Like Ice Age 5 and Trolls 3 since their previous movies didn’t get that seal but the newest one will. I really hope it will get a high score though.