Sailor Moon S The Movie - Hearts in Ice

Despite its slower pace, this feature incorporates all the positive qualities other Sailor Moon episodes share: sharp, eye-catching artwork; humorous but heartfelt communication among the girls; an understandable plot line; and plenty of flashy transforming. Further enhancements include an intelligent soundtrack (a nice balance of kooky sci-fi and seriously beautiful tunes) and the introduction of the "Outer Senshi." This slightly older, more mature group of young women--Sailors Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto--join our regular band of bubble-spraying, crescent-beaming skirt tossers to melt the ice princess once and for all. The dubbed movie (tagged with the new title of Hearts in Ice) is an edited version of the subtitled film. Some language and violence (a few frames) have been altered. Due to the inclusion of mild nudity (imagine a spinning, naked Barbie), parents may want to think twice before offering this movie to fans younger than 6. The DVD is of the uncut version but also has the English language dialogue. --Liane Thomas

Description
As Serena and her friends enjoy Christmas vacation, an unusual and fierce snowstorm hits town... The evil Snow Queen Kaguya has returned to claim Earth as her own. Crucial to Queen Kaguya's plan is a magical crystal from outer space, approaching Earth disguised as a comet. Once she gets hold of the crystal, she will have the power to suck away all life energy and cover the Earth in ice. Will Sailor Moon find the crystal before Queen Kaguya? Will her powers be enough to save the Earth from permanent winter? All hope lies with the Legendary Ultimate Scout Power!

As for the plot, it's fun, but not the greatest. A comet is coming towards Earth, carrying an evil Ice Princess who wants to take over Earth. Why? We never find out. But she's a cool villan anyhow. A young astronomer sees her comet... but no one believes him! Except Luna. The movie is basically about Luna's love for the man, Kakeru, and her wish to be human. If you like Luna, this movie is for you.

Overall, it's a really good movie. The art and music are of high quality, and the fight scenes are incredible! Plus there's the humor, which is even better in the Japanese version. You'll love it. Trust me.


Not as bad as I expected....   June 8, 2000
Chibi Moon (Missouri, USA)
22 out of 28 found this review helpful

First I'll start with the negative points of this movie, because I feel that it's best to have all the good things about it at the end, so then that's what you'll remember most about this review. Because I DO think this is a good movie and I think any other Sailor Moon Omake will want for their collection. (I really tried to be original with my opinions, since everyone else mostly talked about the same things..Mini-Moon, Outers voices..)

1.The Snow Dancers sounded more like yapping dogs!

2.Luna's old british accent made it hard to believe her whole relationship and feelings for Kakeru; and since that's the main plot of the movie, well... 3.Unlike other reviewers, I did not like Himeko's voice. In the subtitle, her voice was so quiet and sweet, but the dub made her sound like some spunky..I don't know what. Just look at her conservative dress; it doesn't fit. 4.I wish they could use the same didy-songs for every situation! Use same transformation/fighting music for every fighting scene, same old Moon Kingdom music for every romantice scene; and so on. It got kind of old. 5.And...their mispronounciations of the Japanese names! Whenever Luna said 'Kakeru' it immediately made me think of 'Kangaroo!' Like 'Fioreee' in the R Movie Dub.

Now on to the positive points of this movie: (Remember, gotta save the best for last..! ) 1.It mostly stuck to all the original dialogue. Some stuff wasn't as funny, cute, or emotional as with the original Japanese. But it's a dub, what did you expect? 2. Princess Snow Kaguya's voice actually sounded believable to me. 3. Nothing was really cut out either. Except with the transformation sequences. Because I DID notice some cutting out of the R Movie..and this wasn't so obvious to me. I like it when they're subtle about things... 4. I liked it how they left ONE of the Japanese BGM's; 'Ai no Message' for the Space scene.

I'm usually very biased where Sailor Moon is concerned. When I watched the R Movie Dub, I found all sorts of things wrong with it. I began watching the S Movie while being a little bit more open-minded..So I finish off the good points with my favorite one:

5.At the beginning of the movie, there I am..being all serious and trying not to start criticizing it right away..It goes to the scene with Kakeru looking through the telescope at the comet...then all of a sudden he says, "Hello! What's that? " It made me laugh soo hard! I mean, if you've seen this movie you'll know what I'm talking about. He said "Hello! " Like some guy would say it if he saw a cute chick. It was so funny! That's when I started to relax and just WATCH the movie. #5 is what made me fall in love with this movie.


It's Sailor Moon, need I say more?   August 24, 1999
17 out of 20 found this review helpful

Hey, I like anything Sailor Moon and am not very much into rate one over the other because you hate one particular character or your fave didn't get as much action as the other characters in this movie versus the others, but I do know for a fact that S was worked on with Takeuchi-sensei, hence tons of new attacks and better animation than the series.

Let's look at the virtues of the video alone. Can it be watched without knowing the series? Yes. Is the plot good. Yes, in fact it's great. A bit of action, a bit of romance and and whole lot of fun. The mutilayered plots were really neat. You had three going through out the movie (average on most accounts) the original seiyuu and not some others (unlike us in cheap America where we dump voice actors and don't pay them if we don't feel like it) and as an added bonus a really nice screen for the credits to go on and sweet too. (the slight romantic touch)

And since Takeuchi-sensei worked so hard with Toei for once plus the manga, plus merchandising AND doing plot summaries for the series, ya gotta love her even more and slap out the dough to buy it. Hey, everyone that's a dedicated moonie (ME! ME!) and has read Hitoshi Doi's summaries (I know that most of you are doing it from his summaries like I am, we should be ashamed of ourselves (^_^);;) Plus it's sorta offical and that means no more fan dubs to eat at your conscience (not that some of us have them) to say your against the law. Hey I'm buying all six versions so nya-nya [tongue stuck out] despite the money drain and all the series too. So stop saying oh, but it's all una movie and oh I thought so and so was supposed to get more air time and so on. Look at it this way (for those of you who can remember still) If you weren't a fanatical moonie and you had no idea what Sailor Moon was, would you enjoy it?

Anyway, I do have a discriminating eye. and I'm going to say Sailor Moon S movie has an excellent plot (it's from a manga act, so what do you expect me to say as a great fan of Takeuchi-sensei), great animation (from what I've seen as snippets on the net) and definately worth the buy whatever price they shell to ya unless its over 100 bucks each. (^_-)


An excellent movie, but get the right reasons for liking it   April 3, 2000
Hitsuji Kinno (kim_yoon_mi@yahoo.com) (noanimeland)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful

First, I would like to say what are these two talking about? A viewer March 30, 2000 taurus4 from United States March 25, 2000

I don't like americanization one bit, what's the point besides shutting yourself in your own culture and making the excuse because you saw something from another country it makes you feel better. If you want the full experience of stepping outside your culture go all the way. "Do or do not, there is no try" -Yoda.

Anyway since this is NOT a forum and a review I will tell what IS in this movie, assuming that Pioneer does an excellent job with this movie as they did with SMR.

Clever undertitle.. subtitle..? What ever it is called. Hearts in Ice. That's got a good ring to it. and excellent choice of art for the cover.

The movie is about a Princess named Ice Kayuga (not to be confused with the Starlight's Princess Kakyuu) returns to Earth to get her revenge on the Moon Kingdom that cast her out. (Queen Serenity did with the Silver Crystal)

Luna happens to be sick on the day of the invasion. The attack sequences are redone and the Outer Senshi (fan term) appear)

Luna falls in love with a Scientist she wishes to be human at the same time the soldiers are fighting Ice Kayuga.

_Super_ Sailor Moon gives Luna a night to be human and travel with the scientist to the moon (which is her dream) She poses as Kayuga (the legend of the Moon Princess, look it up on amazon) Even though she knows her love is futal she gives that to him. He returns to his girlfriend and she returns to Artemis who was worried about her. (It's on Hitoshi Doi's site... the summary anyhoo)

There is nothing like watching the movie on the big screen. It made me cry several time.. at first with delight at finally being able to see it and later because of the plot. It is touching and pulls on your heart strings (I know it does for the guys too though they won't admit is a readily).

I like this movie a lot. The plot isn't just Luna, it's the relationship between Luna and Usagi. Even if you don't love Luna that much this movie will give you plenty of other things to look at. Plus it will give you more respect to Luna.

Oh.. and it should be noted that Sailor Moon R movie is the relationship between Usagi and Mamoru and her Senshi (to a lesser degree). Sailor Moon SS is about the relationship between Usagi and Chibiusa. (I'll review that one when it gets out)

Somehow I doubt Pioneer is going to change the Outer's names, unless they work with Dic on that one and decide too. If they are going to change them, I wouldn't object really, I'll note it. I rather like Alex (Haruka), Michelle (Michiru), and Susan (Setsuna).. though the ones on the Irwin boxes are clever because the definition of the names are the same as they are for their Japanese names.. which is nice.

Helen semes to fit for Hotaru (think about the mythology for Helen of Troy) but she's not in this movie.

I hope that helps you to think a bit more about this movie. I do encourage you to buy it!


Great Sailor Moon   January 14, 2005
Serenity (Ohio)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful

Such a cute and touching tale. Luna falls head over heals in love...not for Artemis (sorry man) but for a scientist. Guess she likes the intellectual types...especially when they save her life. Although love is in bloom in december, the scouts have a new problem and enemy on their hands. an evil ice queen is trying to freeze over the entire earth and add it to her collection of frozen planets...immediatly the scouts step up to meet the threat...but the only way to defeat her is my the legendary silver crystal power of love and friendship....will sailor moon use the silver crystal and forfeit her life to save the planet? Not if the scouts can help it!

Okay, thats a brief summary of the basic plot...but there is so muchmore to say about it, but sadly that would take up an entire page...not to mention i dont want to give away what will happen or what comes of Luna's new love. But here are some tasty tid-bits...THIS IS THE ONLY ANIMATED SAILOR MOON WHERE YOU WILL SEE LUNA IN HER HUMAN FORM...thats right...Luna goes homo-sapien and it gets better...not only are the original scouts in this movie...but so are sailor neptune, uranus, and pluto! The outer senshi fight along side our favorite sailors! Not too mention this plot is so enticing it literally sucks you in full force with suspense and action...making you sit on the edge of your seat wondering..."will luna get with her new fling....will artemis be able to steal her back...and will the scouts succeed in their endeavors?"

Here are some feature of the disk you may like to know
-Bi-lingual English and Japanese
-English subtitles
-Art galleries
-Character Profiles
-Uncut
-And more!

Running time is approx. 60 minutes with a 13+ rating, mostly due to violent fighting in the last battel scene, and seeing Luna a bit nude when she turns into a human. One note on the last battel scene, i believe it to be one of the best battle scenes ever made in sailor moon...it gets viloent and downright mean as it should...so of your into good battles....this is one of the best.