This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

As dense a film as I've ever seen. Distinctly diverging from the series, EVA 2.22 manages to both expand upon the humanistic and the more complicated aspects of Evangelion. While some of the character developments are rushed, the consistent momentum that the characters all have is a distinct improvement over the series. Where as 1.11 felt like a greatest hits from the series, 2.22 is a revitalization that EVA needed to breath new life into it.

I've had the Blu-ray for a while and I can't believe it took me this long to watch it.

What Anno is doing with the Rebuild of Evangelion is remarkable. It takes a certain degree of audacity and bravery to revisit a well-loved, essentially canonical anime series and reinterpret it all over again. And what Anno is doing here amounts to blowing everything up and restarting from the basics. Not everything in EVA 2.0 works, of course – it’s far too rushed, there’s an emphasis on covering plot points rather than character development, and I’m waiting to see how the major deviations will affect the next parts – but having the sheer courage to dismantle your own legacy is something worth respecting.

What is it about the main characters in these anime being such whiny little bitches right up until the last 3 minutes. The first movie the character had the exact same arc. "I don't want to pilot EVA! I don't care if everyone dies! Oh wait, everyone will die?" Then a building catches fire and he's all "Please let me fly the giant robot thing! I don't want everyone to die!" Good animation though.

Ok so first let me just say that I stopped understanding what was going on about two thirds of the way in. Thankfully, years of watching virtually incomprehensible anime have made me somewhat immune to mindfuckery, so I just basked in its weirdness.

It was a fantastically animated film, wow. The CGI was amazingly done, and I was again left in awe at each of the Angel's designs and the soundtrack.

This movie had a different atmosphere than the previous one... which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it definitely didn't feel as "coherent" (if I can use that word without a negative connotation) as 1.0. It doesn't matter, since it's incredibly enthralling either way.

I'm really glad I put off watching this for so long... I feel like I wouldn't have been able to appreciate it properly before. And now I guess that, after the movies, I won't be able to stop myself from watching the series, either.

A true masterpiece of cinema.

Solid addition to the retelling of a very familiar and very beloved series. It changes quite a lot, but many of the changes add a real depth and substance to the series.

What Anno is doing with the Rebuild of Evangelion is remarkable. It takes a certain degree of audacity and bravery to revisit a well-loved, essentially canonical anime series and reinterpret it all over again. And what Anno is doing here amounts to blowing everything up and restarting from the basics. Not everything in EVA 2.0 works, of course – it’s far too rushed, there’s an emphasis on covering plot points rather than character development, and I’m waiting to see how the major deviations will affect the next parts – but having the sheer courage to dismantle your own legacy is something worth respecting.

Shinji is even more whiney in this one.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

What is it about the main characters in these anime being such whiny little bitches right up until the last 3 minutes. The first movie the character had the exact same arc. "I don't want to pilot EVA! I don't care if everyone dies! Oh wait, everyone will die?" Then a building catches fire and he's all "Please let me fly the giant robot thing! I don't want everyone to die!" Good animation though.

Picking up where the first movie left off this covers roughly the last half of the series before a freight train hits the plot, pushing it into uncharted territories.

I was rapt for the duration of the changes made in the film from the tv series and my jaw was left hanging during the climax.

Kids are still whiny bitches, robots are still badass.