Well here's the story.... One day I was wathing E! and they advertised that they were going to have an anime week, where every night for four days you could watch two hours of japanese animation. Well I thought, "Woh. This sounds cool." The first day was Fatal Fury:The Motion Picture and that was pretty good and then for the next two days they showed the movie Galaxy Express 999. As I watched the movie I noticed it was a little slow but I said, "Hey it looks like an old anime so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt." I should never had said that. Wanna know why; cuz this movie sucked @$$, you got that right it SUCKED MAJOR @$$. The main character was this twerp little teenage boy that was so stupid and annoying that by the middle of the film I was rooting for the machine people to off him. I'll give you an example: This robot kills him mom, so he goes on a quest to find this robot and kill him. On his way he meets an old man who tells him no matter what the robot says or how he pleads the boy must kill him. Well... the boy finally finds the robot and shoots off one of its arms. So now the robot is like, "Please don't kill me, I'm unarmed(haha)." So the boy hesitates and starts ranting about how this robot killed his mom. While the kid's ranting, the robot picks up a gun and shoots the kid but before the bullet(or whatever) hits the kid the old man from before throws himself in front of the kid so that he dies and the kid lives. This part ticked me off so much cuz the old man was pretty cool but this loser of a thirteen year old was such a moron and a cry baby that I would have spent double... no triple the amount to purchase the movie just to be able to kill him myself. Well now that I've gotten that out of the way I'll explain the theme of the movie. Its about a kid who lives in a world where there are two different kind of people: normal humans and machine people. Well...one of these machine people kills this kid's mom so he boards Galaxy Express 999 on a quest to find the killer. Oh yah... and he hooks up with some blonde 20-something who he sees naked while she's taking a shower. In all it sucked and if you liked the movie I would be more than glad if you emailed me and told me why(just click on E-mail Me on the bottom of the homepage).