Alright, I am part of this 89 generation in France who grew up watching Saint Seiya on TV. Loved it when I was a kid, adored it when I became a teen and still admire it as a grown-up.Both the anime and the manga convey values of friendship, faith, true strength, love, justice, overcoming your own limits, etc. They would transport you into a unique dimension in which Greek mythology serves as background. In short, a fair genuine and creative world. Even the language was particularly beautiful: the cues / lines were using elevated / formal registers with a classy lexicon. In addition, this epic shounen depicted a lot of wonderful fights which were far from being repetitive. The characters would spray out such charisma that you would take a liking into identifying yourself as one or several of them (we all have a zodiacal sign, haven't we?!). As for the anime, the soundtrack composed by Seiji Yokoyama is still considered as a reference, a unique genre and a jewel for your ears (and cosmos).SPOILER ALERTTherefore, when I heard of the movie about 'Saint Seiya', I was quite thrilled. Later on, when I saw the first pictures of it, I started to fear the worst. Although one might like the character-design, I personally find it awful. It is so childish... The Clothes are no longer contained in boxes but in medals (?!), our Bronze Saints and Saori Kido look like Asian Teenage Idols, Tatsumi is no longer bald, Mû wears glasses, Milo is a woman... We don't get to see the clothes in their unworn forms (i.e., as the mythical Pegasus) and even attacks are just made of poor-tasted FX.Regarding the plot, I get the fact that they had to condense 73 episodes into 90 min. But hell, if you're a Saint Seiya neophyte, how are you supposed to appreciate it? For example, Camus will die teaching Hyôga the 7th sense. Right, who cares - we just saw him for two minutes. In the original works, you'd be crying out loud. Even as a hardcore fan, I was not even slightly moved by the sequence. And what's up with the scenery? What happened to Greek mythology? Why could the guys go there through a... Stargate?! What's up with the main villain - Saga - who has just one personality here and who became a monster like in 'POWER RANGERS'?I won't even comment on the soundtrack - we just happen to be in a lame video game here.So yeah, I am very disappointed that Kurumada actually gave his permission for this shameful adaptation of his masterpiece. Well, you still might appreciate it if you happen to be 3 years old (hence the one star) but trust me - this has really NOTHING to do with the original 'Saint Seiya' which is this time genuinely - LEGENDARY.

**SPOILERS AHEAD**I was so excited for this movie when it was first announced. I went to the website daily to find out what the next Gold Saint would look like and even though some of the renditions were disappointing, I was still very excited. Then the trailers came and little by little, I started to wonder what this movie was going to encompass. There were many scenes I was familiar with and others I had no idea where they had came from. Still, I wanted to be optimistic. When I was finally able to sit down and watch the movie, every second of the movie was more excruciating than the last. This movie was just as bad if not worse than The Last Airbender.First, there's the characters. Pretty much no one is given any kind of character development or background aside from Saori Kido and that was half-assed at best. Some characters even got a complete sex change like Milo. Not that I'm sexist, but there was no ambiguity with Milo's gender yet somehow he has since became a woman? Then came Deathmask. This had to be a joke. Deathmask was a sadistic murderer who killed simply because he could. In the movie, he becomes a singing baboon and dances around like he was on Broadway. Lastly, Shura doesn't die! Not that I wanted him to because I always did like character but he was killed in the original fight yet in this movie, he is alive. What?! Lastly, Pisces gets the worse death, he gets about 30 seconds of screen time and then gets thrown out of a building and the other Saints just say 'It's Aphrodite, he's dead." End scene.Next is the story, for a story arc with so much content, how they came up with such a ridiculous rendition is beyond me. I understand that not everything can fit in, but when you gloss over the most important details and then completely change the world this story lives in, it just makes no sense because the changes weren't necessary/crucial to the story at all. For example, Saori was found in Greece, in the movie it was changed to the Himalayas. Sanctuary is hidden within Greece but in the movie, Sanctuary is located in the clouds that is only accessible with cloth dog tags? WHAT?! The ending scene was also just as mind boggling. Saga creates some kind of giant and Seiya wins by shooting an arrow from the Sagittarius cloth but he's not wearing it normally, the cloth is still in it's minotaur form.All in all, the visuals of this film were great but that didn't save it from the writing catastrophe it is.

*SPOILER ALERT*I'm only gonna waste a few words to say what i have to about this movie.First of all, sure there is an incredible 3D animation but seriously do i have to give up to the anime i loved growing up with just for that?STORYLINE... bang, shot to the heart and stomped over... CHARACTERS...twisted into 9% funny, 90% bullshit and finally 1% true to the anime.Now i know this movie was meant for a new audience and with a twist of the original plot, but what i saw, seriously, they wrecked my world and not in a good way

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!The only highlights of this movie are the animation, the action scenes and music. The rest is a tower of poop. Seiya 's personality is misplaced in each of this film scenes. It's really uncomfortable to see each of his interventions.The script doesn't exist at all, there is no continuity and the characters are too plane. This movie has some of the cheesiest and full of clichés dialogs that i saw in a long time (most of them coming from Athena). I understand that it's a movie where you have to summarize and present the story looking for new generations, but there is no point in having that final scene between Saga and Athena because during the film there is not even a little suggestion about Saga having two personalities. I believe that Death Mask's musical number is a parody for villains in Disney movies, but felt out of place. I mean, in the original story Death Mask it's a psychopath murderer who loves too collect his victims faces.The final battle, the largest turd of this really forgettable movie, there is a bunch of Gold Saints fighting a f*****g rock monster!!! Even the post credits scene doesn't worth it. It doesn't leave you anything.This happens every time Kurumada has direct access to the project.I repeat, has a great animation and an very good soundtrack composed by Yoshihiro Ike (not even close to the ones composed for the anime by Seiji Yokoyama).My score 4/10