And D2 is mostly just HayaFre, so.
Kawamori: Let's center the second movie on the least interesting couple in Macross history.
Me: Oh no.
K: And then she dies! No hope! She's gone! Dead!
Me: Wait, what the sh------
I would maybe recommend the first movie if you absolutely must watch, but like, Idk, I'm gonna go against the tide and pretend Delta never happened as hard as I can. I don't think the production value elevates it either, the Uta Macross like cgi concerts are better than the noodle arm models in the Frontier movies, but that isn't saying much. It's still out of place and uncanny. The dogfights would be nice, but I don't care about the characters and I don't like the modeks the aerial knights use.
It's also funny to me, because Satelight put out another series leaps and bounds more ridiculous but also way more entertaining in the last decade, that being Symphogear. It has the "ancient aliens built civilization and singing to defeat evil" stuff, but it fully commits to the silly nonsense and mostly for the better.