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Several years ago I saw an episode of "Revolutionary Girl Utena" at JAFWA. It looked intriguing, but also like one of those slow symbolic animes that never quite makes sense. I heard there was a movie retelling the plot of the show, and decided to watch that instead.
Now, I must admit, I had heard it was a bit confusing if you hadn't seen the show, and the one episode I has seen helped me understand some stuff much better. Also, the dvd skipped in a couple of places. Regardless, here is my synopsis of the movie as I experienced it, sicne it was just too bizarre not to share (Also, duh, spoilers):
Utena: Ohnoes, my ex is at my new school! Huh, a rose just gave me a ring.
Green haired guy: Haha! By your ring I see you are a fellow Duellist. Let us fight for the right to have sex with the Rose Bride Anthy!
Utena: Wait, what?
Anthy: Come, draw this sword from my glowing boobs and defeat him!
Utena (with long hair all of a sudden?): Ok.
Anthy: And now we can have sex!
Utena: No! Let's just be friends. And, uh...get naked for artistic purposes.
Me: Wait, does Anthy have a giant hole in her torso?
DVD: Skip!
Me: Argh!
The Prince (a girl): Utena does not deserve the Revolutionary power of the Rose Bride!
Me: Finally, the title makes sense. Kind of.
Touga (Utena's ex) and his girlfriend (or possibly sister) clean each others ears and reminisce about his childhood as a sex slave in fields of cabbages surrounded by moths with the bodies of naked girls.
Touga's girlfriend: My Prince drowned saving my best friends life, and now he will be a Prince forever.
Me: Wait, wasn't the prince a girl?
DVD: Skip!
A cow dressed as the prince is tormented by small adorable animals.
DVD: Skip!
The Prince and Utena duel. Just for a moment, Utena turns into Anthy's brother, The Rose Prince, and so wins.
Some Girl: Oh noes, the Rose Prince is Dead.
Other Girl: I have a tape proving Anthy did it!
*tape plays*
*Rose Prince appears to be groping Anthy*
Rose Prince: Wait, you're awake? I, uh...
Anthy: Why would I mind, I mean you're my brother.
Rose Prince: Where is the key? *stabs Anthy* *falls out window*
*tape ends*
Utena searches for Anthy. She follows random street signs on chairs to a foyer, where elevator music plays.
Touga: Be with me forever!
Utena: You know what, I just remembered, you're dead.
*Touga drowns*
Me: Oh. Touga is the Prince. Except..what about the Rose Prince? And that chick? Wait..is everyone dead?
Anthy: Come use my boob sword to create miracles!
Utena: No, let us escape to the outside world!
Me: Ah, so it's some wierd death/dreamscape, kind of like "What Dreams may come". I almost understand this now.
Suddenly Utena is swallowed by a giant carwash.
Then she turns into a giant pink car.
Anthy: Of course, the key!
Some girl who has also turned herself into a car: You won't escape that easy! *explodes*
The Prince and mean greenhaired guy: We're your friends, we'll save you!
Me: But you hate them! Man, this movie makes no sense at all.
Control room filled with scores of pink haired silhouettes: Drive towards the pretty castle!
The castle turns out to be an evil monster truck.
Anthy: I'm not running away any more! This time I'm going to escape!
Anthy drives Utena-the-car through the maze of wheels. Just as they are about to escape, they're caught in a conveyer belt.
The Rose Prince: Anthy, come back with me, and be a living dead princess with the power of miracles.
Anthy: Never!
Me: Wait, Anthy's a zombie? I guess she does have big hole in her chest.
Utena and Anthy fly out. The monster truck castle explodes in a giant cloud of rosepetals.
Utena and Anthy are lying down, naked, on a big black motorcycle which is driving through a barren wasteland.
Utena: There are no roads in the outside world.
Me: But you're on a road. Also, that's a really impractical way to ride a motorcycle.
*they kiss*
There are rose-petals, and a castle in the background (oh no, another monster truck!)
The End.
Now, I must admit, I had heard it was a bit confusing if you hadn't seen the show, and the one episode I has seen helped me understand some stuff much better. Also, the dvd skipped in a couple of places. Regardless, here is my synopsis of the movie as I experienced it, sicne it was just too bizarre not to share (Also, duh, spoilers):
Utena: Ohnoes, my ex is at my new school! Huh, a rose just gave me a ring.
Green haired guy: Haha! By your ring I see you are a fellow Duellist. Let us fight for the right to have sex with the Rose Bride Anthy!
Utena: Wait, what?
Anthy: Come, draw this sword from my glowing boobs and defeat him!
Utena (with long hair all of a sudden?): Ok.
Anthy: And now we can have sex!
Utena: No! Let's just be friends. And, uh...get naked for artistic purposes.
Me: Wait, does Anthy have a giant hole in her torso?
DVD: Skip!
Me: Argh!
The Prince (a girl): Utena does not deserve the Revolutionary power of the Rose Bride!
Me: Finally, the title makes sense. Kind of.
Touga (Utena's ex) and his girlfriend (or possibly sister) clean each others ears and reminisce about his childhood as a sex slave in fields of cabbages surrounded by moths with the bodies of naked girls.
Touga's girlfriend: My Prince drowned saving my best friends life, and now he will be a Prince forever.
Me: Wait, wasn't the prince a girl?
DVD: Skip!
A cow dressed as the prince is tormented by small adorable animals.
DVD: Skip!
The Prince and Utena duel. Just for a moment, Utena turns into Anthy's brother, The Rose Prince, and so wins.
Some Girl: Oh noes, the Rose Prince is Dead.
Other Girl: I have a tape proving Anthy did it!
*tape plays*
*Rose Prince appears to be groping Anthy*
Rose Prince: Wait, you're awake? I, uh...
Anthy: Why would I mind, I mean you're my brother.
Rose Prince: Where is the key? *stabs Anthy* *falls out window*
*tape ends*
Utena searches for Anthy. She follows random street signs on chairs to a foyer, where elevator music plays.
Touga: Be with me forever!
Utena: You know what, I just remembered, you're dead.
*Touga drowns*
Me: Oh. Touga is the Prince. Except..what about the Rose Prince? And that chick? Wait..is everyone dead?
Anthy: Come use my boob sword to create miracles!
Utena: No, let us escape to the outside world!
Me: Ah, so it's some wierd death/dreamscape, kind of like "What Dreams may come". I almost understand this now.
Suddenly Utena is swallowed by a giant carwash.
Then she turns into a giant pink car.
Anthy: Of course, the key!
Some girl who has also turned herself into a car: You won't escape that easy! *explodes*
The Prince and mean greenhaired guy: We're your friends, we'll save you!
Me: But you hate them! Man, this movie makes no sense at all.
Control room filled with scores of pink haired silhouettes: Drive towards the pretty castle!
The castle turns out to be an evil monster truck.
Anthy: I'm not running away any more! This time I'm going to escape!
Anthy drives Utena-the-car through the maze of wheels. Just as they are about to escape, they're caught in a conveyer belt.
The Rose Prince: Anthy, come back with me, and be a living dead princess with the power of miracles.
Anthy: Never!
Me: Wait, Anthy's a zombie? I guess she does have big hole in her chest.
Utena and Anthy fly out. The monster truck castle explodes in a giant cloud of rosepetals.
Utena and Anthy are lying down, naked, on a big black motorcycle which is driving through a barren wasteland.
Utena: There are no roads in the outside world.
Me: But you're on a road. Also, that's a really impractical way to ride a motorcycle.
*they kiss*
There are rose-petals, and a castle in the background (oh no, another monster truck!)
The End.
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