The Best: Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway
Gundam’s return to the movies this year in adapting one of its most famous novel series gave us one of the most intriguing animated films of 2021. Gorgeously rendered, its explorations of that timely themes that the franchise’s “Universal Century” has explored for nearly 50 years, as well as the setup for a compelling examination of the world its heroes live in, Hathaway delicately balanced Gundam’s spectacular mecha action—delivering one of the most potent and horrifying action sequences the series has done in the process—with a heady bit of stage setting for the rest the trilogy’s window into Gundam’s interstellar politics.
