Dirty Pair (film)

Dirty Pair (ダーティペア) is a 1995 American animated epic space opera film directed by in his directorial debut, and based on the  by. It features the voices of and  as Kei and Yuri.

The film takes place in the years 2138–43, by which time humanity has spread across some few thousand star systems. A corporation called the World Welfare Works Association (WWWA or 3WA) helps member systems of the United Galactica (UG) federation deal with various planetary-scale problems, for profit, by sending agents called "trouble consultants". The series focuses on a team of trouble consultants in that section, named Kei and Yuri, who have a reputation for leaving a trail of destruction behind them, for which they are known publicly as the "Dirty Pair", a nickname they hate.

Premiering at the on February 12, 1995, Dirty Pair began its American theatrical run on February 15. It is the first theatrical animated film from (making this Universal's first in-house theatrical animated film), as well as their first and so far only anime film. It was met with generally positive reviews and grossed $70 million worldwide against a budget of $13 million.

Plot
Kei and Yuri are the two members of Trouble Consultant team 234, code named "Lovely Angels". Almost every mission they are involved with ends up in disaster, though not failure: They typically capture their target fugitive, but end up destroying a city in the process, earning the nickname the "Dirty Pair", a moniker they openly hate being called. They are always cleared of any wrongdoing by the 3WA's Central Computer because the extreme collateral damage is never actually determined to be their fault, although their mere presence tends to worsen the situations for which they are hired. In some but not all continuities, they have joint extrasensory perception powers, usually limited to precognition. This talent was the reason they were recruited in the first place.

The master computer of Eleanor City's Damocles Tower known as Brian goes messing with the cities power and putting everyone in chaos, when The Lovely Angels are forced out of their apartment in the tower from all the chaos and try to find a way to disable Brian, but are surrounded by the technology in the city which the computer controls, but Yuri and Kei stop it by warping a ship into the computer destroying it and ends up pushing Damocles Tower over and it remains leaning for the rest of the film.

After an unknown recent terrorist attacks on commercial space cruisers, the Lovely Angels along with a senior operative of the 3WA known as Nova Grave go aboard one of them to see if they can locate the cause of the recent attacks. The Lovely Angels are then sent to collect a legendary casino chip, where they infiltrate the owner's mansion as gamblers, and are unexpectedly helped by the owner's assistant, the attractive Sydney, who claims he has been sent by the 3WA to assist them.

When the cat Guillaume de Malatesta XIII escapes from her brothers lab with a special muscle fortifier, both her and Jerry secretly go after it while the Lovely Angels are after it as well for their mission. While they end up encountering each other on a under construction highway, both duos fight each other where Lan is focusing on fighting Kei who was a fan of hers before the incident. Though the Lovely Angels get away with the cat, they don't know it was the fake cat and both Lan and Jerry get away empty-handed.

With the Lovely Angel unavailable, the Pair is flying a rental craft when they receive a sudden communication announcing their "execution." A powerful force throws about the ship, and a large unknown object is glimpsed. After this rattling incident, the girls fly on to the planet Popos to wind down. But it proves to be far from relaxing when they are attacked by flying battle mecha. The two manage to escape and fly off into space in the rented ship. They reencounter the strange unknown force. The large object is revealed as a gigantic space fortress. The brain behind all this is the unseen Dr. Criados -- an ex-convict taken into custody in a previous criminal case. Apparently freed, the doctor wants to take revenge upon the Dirty Pair. Entering the huge station, Kei and Yuri booby-trap Nanmo with a self-destructing device and aim him for the fortress's central computer system. The resulting blast destroys much of the station and takes the lives of all inside.

Kei and Yuri receive an invitation in the mail to a party on Belenus from someone named "G. A. Francess". The girls think that because of the formal invitation that it must be a high class party where they can hopefully get a rich guy at and start heading over there on the Lovely Angel. Yuri decides to go on a detour to Cauld to go look for a nice dress to wear at the party. While getting the dress at a mall, the Lovely Angels are mistaken from two wanted criminals on the planet known as Pete and Moila. After failing to escape the polices clutches due to the interference of a group of children messing around on their ship, Kei and Yuri end up taking out the real Pete and Moila. After getting everything cleared up, they use a double warp to get to Belenus and then when arriving at the party, the girls become disappointed as they find out that the party is at a small country house and that "G. A. Francess" was really their boss Gooley Andrew Francess inviting them to his family gathering which lacked young guys.

Kei and Yuri are asked to catch a data thief within WWWA building. Chief Fangoria, from WWWA R&D asked for them, which surprises them. The real culprit, however, is an experimentally intelligence enhanced mice, Algernon. Algernon commands the mice of the city to take the WWWA building hostage and free his mate, Chichi. They are given a flea by Dr. Jesse that will reverse the mices' intelligence. Chichi, accidentally, gets sucked by the flea instead of Algernon. Out of despair over the loss of his mate Algernon commits suicide.

Voice cast

 * as Kei
 * as Yuri
 * Crispin Valenzuela as Nova Grave
 * as Gooley Andrew Francess
 * as Calico
 * Brian King as Brian
 * as Mughi
 * Isla Wood as Lan
 * as:
 * Guillaume de Malatesta XIII
 * Algernon
 * as Romeo
 * Jackie Stephens as Julietta
 * as Kaia
 * as:
 * Pete
 * Dr. Jesse
 * Nancy Tso as Moila
 * as Chief Fangoria