YMMV / Gunhed

• Adaptation Displacement: Mention Gunhed to a Shoot 'Em Up or PC Engine fan and they'll likely default to thinking of the much more critically acclaimed video game adaptation, also known as Blazing Lazers in the west. Especially for Western retro gamers who only know of the game under the Blazing Lazers title, chances are that fans of the game won't even know of the original movie.
• Awesome Music:
  • While the rest of the film is a mess, with some decent special effects, perhaps the best part of it would be the energetic and memorable score by Toshiyuki Honda, who would later score the Metropolis (2001). The main theme is pretty good, and the two vocal songs by Mariko Nagai are also very nice and well-done.
  • Don't forget Frontline Assembly's "Mindphaser" using an edited version of this film as a music video.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: When you confuse this as a Gundam film, Sunrise actually created a Tokusatsu Gundam film for you... Which ended up sharing the same flop Gunhed had.
• Parody Displacement: The film itself may not be completely obscure, but many people probably first found out about it through its use as a music video for Front Line Assembly's "Mindphaser".
• The Scrappy: The two child characters, Seven and Eleven, are generally seen as the movie's low point, and they rarely stop talking.
• Special Effect Failure: the Green Screen used after Brooklyn escapes the dying Gunhed is painfully obvious.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Gunhed, both as a scale model and a full-size mockup, is simply awesome. The animations (of Gunhed and the maps) on Gunhed's onboard computer also stand out.