Well I'm jumping on the review bandwagon

For a film I don't think any of you have heard of!

Now I don't know it would allow me to do this in his group but I don't care I'm doing it anyways. That and I'd think he'd like this gem. I am doing a film review of a South Korean animated movie from what I believe to be from late 1991 judging by one of the plagarized songs used in it and like a lot of South Korean kids films from the early 1970's to late 1990's, character designs, plot points and even scenes are stolen from not just anime's but also American cartoons, and at least one comic book character

I got the movie from a torrent site that now seemingly had vanished under the radar and now I can't recall which site was it but it did involve my family trying to get a virus off my computer afterwards. Damn

Anyways I did a translator for the movie title on the ever so unreliable Google Translate and from that it appears the movie according to that is called "Five Planet Teenagers against Emperor Power".The designs are mostly ripped off from the hilarious 1990's Environmentalist cartoon Captain Planet and the Planeteers with the "Five Planet Teenager" being ripped off from the five planeteers of the show (Kwame, Wheeler, Linka, Gi and Ma-Ti if you needed a referesher). I know that Captain Planet was aired there according to a video containing the Korean version of opening to the show but when exactly I don't know. I do know that the designs are kinda modified from the show to be a bit more anime esque (both Gi and Linka now look like they'd belong in Macross, Gi has Burnette Hair, Linka's ponytail is a bit longer, Kwame is now slightly muscular, Wheeler has sunglasses and Ma-Ti slightly taller, and now they have psuedo Sentai/Ranger suits they get near the middle of the film just to name a few of the changes) yet they look honestly better than the Season 6 redesigns. Okay now I'll shut up and now I'm rambling on about something that only appeals to my knowledge pointing out minutae at this point about character designs now we can move on with the film

Unfortunately I have one last thing to say. I have no clue why but this film does not render at all in my craptastic video editing software that is known as Windows Live Movie Maker, leaving only audio behind so I am going to just describe the film.




We open with a South Korean pop song sung by woman which really gives me a Space Black Knight vibe to it, which was first but not last I'm I saw eerie similarities to the Bootleg MSG film. We cut to an oddly caucasian Gaia also from Captain Planet seemingly pondering about something. I honestly don't know what it is as this has no subs but a little while laters shows that it is not about the environment despite what you may think. Then a robot boy appears much like the robot boy from Space Black Knight (see I told you there were more similarities) and has the resemblance of Gen Nakaoka-


WAIT WHAT? Keiji Nakazawa's author avatar from Barefoot Gen is a robotic Astro Boy esque childbot. WTF? Are you sure this isn't...,insensitive towards Keiji and other Hibakusha?

Anyways the two discuss for about a minute or two  and suddenly her eyes glow and suddenly After that an artic iceberg shatters open and a golden colored Braiger stomps out of it

So yeah that scene is a shot for shot plagarization of the scene where the BioRobo steps out of it's ice cavern in the first episode of Bioman. Huh..

Meanwhile a character with Zarm's model with gold armor, presumably the titular Emperor Power orders his five allies, including a Brunette version of Doctor Blight, a character who looks like a mix between Jiban and Boba Fett and has a voice sounding really nasally like me and non threatening (seriously), a completely identical clone of Apparatia from Ghostbusters (the Filmation one that is) just which a slight 1970's anime-ish look (she still is oddly really hot to me though even though the show she is from is pretty bad),a human sized sentient version of the mecha Red Ronin oddly enough who apparently is in love with Not-Apparatia and....this soldier guy, also from Barefoot Gen (I think the second volume) except he's looks and sounds vaguely hispanic. No joke


Seriously what is up with this film and having stolen designs from a depressing semi-autobiographical manga? And how did Keiji Nakazawa not sue these guys? Though he probably never knew that, what follows in a little while is really...,well I'll save it for later

Anyways he summons all of them to use mecha's stolen from the series Dorvack, and in a jumpcut we see Not-Blight and Hispanic-Japanese beard man as I'll call them flying in a Silver Oberon Gazette with extra rocket launchers in its sides shooting at buildings while an animation loop of people fleeing and screaming while Emperor Power tells his commando's to presumably kill them all ala Aizenborg and while this happens Not Ronin changes his size and attacks with Not-Apparatia sitting on his shoulder rather suggestively while Boba Jiban stands on his shoulder sadistically laughing. This is a kids film right?

Anywho we cut back to the Gold Braiger who slowly picks up five heroes one by one and takes them back to the base, again ripping off Bioman. Not Gaia and Robo-Gen tell them about their mission and they discuss how to use their new tools. Some exposition later and the Faux-planeteers talking to each other they soon prepare to fight the enemy.

Some random battle happens with
Gold Braiger and an army of gunmetal gray Bonaparte Tulcas clones and soon the villain is pissed off at his minions for failing him but he lets them stay. He summons Boba Jiban and soon commands used a robot that looks like a blue and Orange Mugen Calibur and honestly it looks nice in those colors. Anyways they fight very violently, both mechs are damaged with the severe damage being to the villains mech with the mechs arms being literally TORN off.

What happens next reminds me a bit of the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail with the Black Knight getting his limbs cut off one by one by King Arthur. The villains reactd indifferent to his mechs arms being torn off and just headbutts into the Gold Braiger with the Psuedo Planeteers reacting really oddly like to the effect of "What the heck is he doing?"

But soon enough Gold Braiger literally roundhouse kicks the feet off and then blows up the mech
Presumably killing Boba Jiban. Did I just step into a Robot Taekwon V film-of right Roundhouse kicks are a Karate thing, not Taekwon Do. Nevermind that

Some more pointless exposition, and then scene with not Wheeler and not Linka having a picnic and the others and Robo Gen noticing and then the two go all tsundere on each other pretending their picnic wasn't really there , pretty much confirming my theory that Wheeler and Linka's love-hate relationship was a ruse just so they could be more affectionate  behind the others backs. Lol I knew it! >:-D

My favorite bit was a random scene with Not Apparatia and Not Ronin making out and Emperor Power Zarm noticing and the two get embarressed. I lost it right there, I never saw anything more hysterical!


Then overnight a shadowy figure capturing Robo-Gen and taking him
back to the base and then Hispanic-Japanese Beard Man who captured him gives a ransom towards not Gaia and the Five Planet warriors that I believe he would kill Robo-Gen unless they give the Planet Robo as I'm gonna call Gold Braiger from
Now on to them. They refuse so Emperor Power gets ready with his men to attack the Planet Warriors base,  save Hispanic-Japanese Beard man so he prepares what to do with Robo Gen at their fortress.

The Planet Warriors get the robot and soon fly to the base of the enemy which was located on Radar and now I know there is no environmental moral in this whole film. But soon at the base Robo-Gen esacpes and fires his eye ray at the beard man killing him which makes me wonder why he didn't do that in the first place. The Planet Robo fights the Faux Oberon Gazette and blows up killing psuedo Blight. The battles briefly takes to the ground as the Planet warriors fight at a mud slurry that shouldn't be at the enemy base that is there anyways where Not Ronin and not Apparatia fight the Planet Warriors in an anti climatic fight that leads to Not Ronin being fallen into the slurry with not Apparatia failing to save him. Apparently she sobs a bit and then pretty much commits suicide by gracefully and oddly enough, rather sexually for some reason sinks into the mud.

Okay one, again is this a kids film or not? Two, did the animators have a quicksand fetish. Not that I'm against someone having that kink, that I admittedly kinda like that,  just for the quicksand bit but not the fact that she killed herself which is sad really but hey at least she was united with her husband even in death which was oddly heartwarming. The Planeteers laugh at this like the sociopaths they are and Robo Gen arrives telling them something, on the lines of getting out of her as he's going to blow himself up to escape, they tearfully say goodbye to him and they escape in their robot and then the base explodes with an atomic explosion and in my mind , Keiji Nakazawa 's corpse is being hooked up with a car battery, and rolling in his grave while sobbing his eyes out.

Yup This film is not only insensitive to those who died in the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki but also insulting towards victims of the bombing like Keiji Nakazawa which seeing his author avatar of his autobiography actually blow up in a nuclear explosion actually angered me seeing that! Was the makers of the THAT shallow making this film?!?!

Anyways Emperor Power Zarm is still alive and he turns into a giant sized evil Captain Planet. No it's not Captain Pollution, it really is the same design as the Cap. Again with the Space Black Knight homages?

Well the fight is very anti-climatic. The two beings fights with fists and as EPZCP prepares a sword out of thin air he literally TRIPS and stabs himself and explodes like an old school Toku villian. The heroes save the day and then they go home with them wishing Robo Gen didn't go Kamakazi on himself but are glad that the day is saved. Cue an ending stolen directly from Star Wars Episode 4 the end


This film was really bad, and unlike a lot of other South Korean Bootleg cartoons isn't very so bad their good, instead this one is it's so bad it's horrible! Why hasn't anyone seen this before? Maybe they have and no site really bothered to document it?

While they do plagarize some animes, they mostly steal American properties in this which also wasn't uncommon in South Korea kids cartoons back then. The animation is okay, though the fights are the best animated. I did get a few laughs but those were few and far between. It's a perverse and really twisted film that apparently likes mocking the innocent lives that were ruined by the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. For some odd reason I couldn't bring myself to like this film.

I give it a two out of 10 stars for the couple of bits that I did laugh at it.

(Happy early April fools!)