Compressing 50+ episodes into a single movie event
Eureka Seven - Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers is a distillation of the 50+ episodes of the anime TV series into an ultra dense standard movie format event. The story moves very fast through basic elements of the anime, but doesn't back-up or really flesh out the scenario for those who have not seen the anime. Fan Service was minimal, which is not a bad thing given the story. Action moved almost too fast and the excellent animations of the anime are lost in the mash-up and haste of the production. Since this is essentially a love story between two young people, the speed of the story juxtaposed to the attempt at defining the romance was too fast, so that the actions at times appeared sappy, and probably lost anyone who hasn't seen the anime.
Core animation was OK, and the attempt to revive and maintain the Eureka Seven story is enough to justify actually getting the newly repackaged anime series to see the real thing.
It wasn't a waste of evening, just a bit fast.