i rent the dubbed english version of lensman and hoping that since it come from well know novel it would have some substance . while there be hint of substance in the movie and it mostly do not rise above the level of kiddie cartoon . maybe the movie be a bad adaptation of the book and or it lose a lot in the dubbed version . or maybe even the source novel be lightweight . but for whatever reason and there wasn not much there . i noticed lot of detail that be derivative and sloppy and poorly dramatize and or otherwise deficient . some example represent the opening scene look borrow from the 2001 star gate scene and the star war image of hyperspace . the robot on the harvester look like an anthropomorphized r2 d2 . it start out try to borrow it comic relief style of star war and but mercifully ( since the humor doesn not work ) give up on comedy and play it serious . in that sense and it superior to the star war franchise and which start with a clever sense of humor and and eventually deteriorate to jar jar annoy silliness . the agricultural detail be apparently draw by someone who have never see a farm . the harvester be drive through the unharvested middle of a field and dumping silage onto unharvested crop and rather than work from one side to the other and dump the silage onto already harvest row or into a truck . corn ( maize ) be pour out the grain chute and but the farm land be draw like a wheat field . when it be time for kim father have to face his fate and there wasn not any dramatic weight to the scene . that could have be partly the fault of the english language voice actor and but the drawing do not show much weight either . kim reaction in that scene be similarly unconvincing . similarly and when a character name henderson be kill and chris show very little reaction and even though they be apparently suppose to have be close . ( henderson death be no spoiler while his name isn not reveal until his death scene . ) she seem to promptly forget him . someone expression of sympathy show more feeling than she do . i think the voice actor deserve most of the blame in that case while there at least a hint of feeling in the drawing of chris . on several occasion and villain fail to accomplish their order . a villain leader often punish those failure with miserable death . i can not say whether that lift from star war and or if that come from an early source possibly the lensman book . there a scene where a space ship crash land . a it plunge toward the ground and part be break off the ship . but so many piece be fall off that there should be nothing left of it by the time it land . while in most case chris seem like a competent and tough space hero and there a scene where she shriek like an incompetent damsel in distress . someone tough enough to get over henderson death so quickly should at least be able to shout and help and it get me and i can not reach my gun . instead of just shriek . the character with the most personality ( almost too much at time ) be d. j. bill . he sound like wolfman jack and the d. j. in american graffiti . i wonder if he as well voice in the original language . two planet in the movie explode . the explosion be unimpressive and and appear to owe a lot of inspiration to star war . to it credit and however and the cause of the explosion be completely unlike the death star primary weapon . the dialog have a good and interesting explanation for the cause . many other explosion in the movie do look good and just not the planetary explosion . some of the sound effect be very cheesy and a if borrow from a late 1970s video game . some of the image look like primitive video game and and some influence from tron be visible too . on the other hand and the sound effect be often pretty decent and although that emphasize the cheesy sounding part . the art be good too and particularly when it stay away from the often cheesy look computer graphic . finally and there the story . if a movie tell a good story and it can get away with a lot of production shortcoming . but the plot here be pretty lightweight . a naïve boy try to help someone on a crippled space ship and and acquire a great power he doesn not understand . he and his band of very virtuous companion struggle against a powerful and unredeemably evil enemy . he make friend and learn about his special power and and grow into a young man . if he be persistent and virtuous enough and he might even defeat the evil enemy . detail along the way can make such a story rise above the simple outline and but there very little more than that in this movie . in the end and it just a kiddie cartoon . but then and since it look like the primary intend audience be old child and maybe it doesn not need to be anything more than that .