Synopsis: The various Precure teams including Go Princess were invited to a Spring Carnival in the Kingdom of Harmonia. However it is a trap devised by a two thieves named Odoren and Utaen who has already abducted the Royal family and his aim is all the Precure transformation items. Can the girls able to figure out his plan before all is lost?
The plot is nothing special as we have seen it before in different Precures movies. However this time, Toei decided to go all "Coco Puff" as almost two-third of the film are musical numbers. (mainly from the different seasons' opening and ending songs) But the way they presented the songs felt like a Japanese variety show-(Music Station if anyone remember?) and both Odoren and Utaen interviewed the girls like they are celebrities.
Sure, there are some original songs like how Odoren and Utaen boasted as being great thieves but that's the problem-the villains are not interesting at all. I know they are going for a lighter tone after the last All Stars movie was pretty dark but come on, they are making the two villains like being too powerful that the girls couldn't handle them in the beginning. (Although the girls overcome it in the end)
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| This is the only nice aftermath I like from the different teams. |
Then there are the various teams. As usual, not everyone returned to reprise their characters leaving them like dummies in the background. Although there are some scenes during their performances which showed the aftermath when their series were over. But come on, Toei, everyone before Smile Precure should be in their adulthood! I want to see an adult Honoka, Karen, Love, Setsuna, Hibiki and Kandae which I am sure some of you older fans want to see that too!
The final battle is not with the two thieves but rather a dragon as the carnival was meant to calm the dragon but since it was sabotaged, the dragon is about to unleash it's anger on the kingdom. But instead of using Miracle Lights, the girls follow what Kamen Rider Gaim did during the Heisei Riders vs Showa Riders movie-A special Dress Up Key that contained all the previous teams' powers into one and the Go Princess team saved the day. (Yeah...not excited about it)
Overall, my personal opinion is not a good one as this is the worst All Stars movie ever. It make Super Hero Taisen Z a classic and I personally didn't enjoy that movie either. Maybe Toei should stop making these movies for the time being and re-evaluate what is good and remove all the bad points from the various movies. If you like musical numbers, more power to you. A few songs here and there is fine but this movie really make me want to delete it from my hard drive.
Final Verdict: A big D. Delete the movie after watching. It is not worth the effort to keep it!
I agree. This is the worst Precure All Stars I've ever watched. So much dancing and singing and music video scenes style that have nothing to do with the plot. If Toei want to release this kind of All Stars they should make this an OVA instead of movie.
ReplyDeleteI think this movie is a different approach from other All Stars movies. If you treat this movie like other All Star movies, it is definitely the worst one because there is not much storyline...saying in better way, the story is rather simple, and there is not much fighting. You need to watch it like watching opera. This kind of opera-style animation seems very popular recently too. You can see from some new animes now (such as Dance with Devil). The problem is this kind of musical movie can't make sequel like DX & NS, Toei needs to search a new approach next year.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is Pretty Cure has been associated with girl power and fighting as a team like Sailor Moon or Super Sentai. However this movie gave long time fans a big face palm as the plot is so "plain" that if you want to introduce a newbie on Precure and you showed them this movie, they might reconsider on folliowing the rest of the series.
DeleteUnless it is done in a live stage like how Sailor Moon has musical shows which make sense.
Imagine Kamen Rider or Super Sentai became a musical for an entire 90 minutes. Kyoryuger did it once on their movie and I immediately delete it after that. (Thank god, the crossover movie between the three Dinosaurs Sentai team after make up that mess)
Yes, Pretty Cure series itself is associated with girls power and fighting as a team, but All Stars movie is a different thing. All Stars movie associates crossover and nostalgia. Looking back to NS series, it fails to achieve this two basic features even they have fighting scenes. Although this movie focuses on musical shows, but it achieves the two features.
DeleteFor having a live musical stage, Sailor Moon is easier than Precure because Sailor soldiers don't involve many physical action. They don't need to do something like Super Hero Show, but Precure needs to be like that if coming to live musical stage. This is something that live can't do for Precure. (another reason is Precure series has eleven different stories, while Sailor Moon just stay on one main story)
Kamen Rider can't have a musical for 90 minutes because Kamen Rider series mood is usually associated with sadness and seriousness, especially many Showa Riders are forced to be the Hero. For live-action, it is extravagant to do a 90-minute musical show as you need to spend many actors and props...In the past Kamen Rider, there were many riding actors for opposing Kamen Riders (I hope you understand what I said), now there is no such grand scene (many riders oppose a Kamen Rider)...I only can see such scene sometimes in Sentai...
In particular, Precure had introduced dance endings since SS. It has a potential to do something like this...and their introduction of CG and motion capture affects the Japanese CG industry. (the coming movie is also attempting a new 3D style) FYI, using motion capture is expensive for movie making.
"It make Super Hero Taisen Z a classic[...]"
ReplyDeleteGood thing I'm not the only one who hates that piece of SHIET that was that movie...
Well, better that than Transformers 4 :Age "Almost Sleep" of Extinction!
The only reason I'm keeping the movie is Cure Passion dance to You Make Me Happy. That is it
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