*Some spoilers* I usually have pretty low expectations and am easily pleased. I find true delight in the very act of seeing a piece of art *try*, but boy howdy did this movie mess up my very simple starbucks order. Do or do not, there was no “try”. Preface of things I actually enjoyed: - Slapstick chase sequence at the beginning was cute & funny & props for the very dope shot of fixed-point parkour sakuga. One nice little creative sprinkle on top of this plain bagel. - Good Guy Deku™️ paying criminal bus fare with OFA. Deku is a caricature of himself at this pointbut they at least got some comedy out of his dying husk.
- Fugitive road trip bonding montage
- Just 2 dudes covered in blood crying and laughing hysterically (you will ALWAYS get me with this). At least *some* fun tropes could be salvaged from the wreckage.
- Rody in general ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Probably because he was the only person in the movie who was given any character whatsoever. The movie had a strange way of Stockholming me into liking him—confined within the lifeless walls of this movie, I became forced to find comfort in the little trappings of humanity he offered.
Moving on:
This thing was just not animated with movie quality at all. It seemed very unpolished, and there was perhaps 30 minutes total that outclassed TV(generous). I should not look at a *movie* and be not only unimpressed but actively noticing errors. The number of off-model faces FRONT AND CENTER was astounding. It was the sort of stuff that would catch my eye in a season and I would give it a pass, but I sat in a damn theater to watch this, so I’m giving it the full extent of my judgement. Gallows for the wonky boys.
Never in my life have I seen eugenics, doomsday cults, and bio-terrorism so phenomenally wasted as plot points. How do you make some of the scariest ideologies known to man so BORING and hollow. I don’t need my shounen to have a nuanced political message or anything of the sort, but they couldn’t even play up these aspects for the sake of spectacle. I had the hype of seeing some shady religious imagery and thinking, “Oh hell yes, My Hero is about to get stupid-edgy”, only for it to fall flat entirely.
Speaking of flat, we know Deku is simply not a character anymore, but you could’ve held up a stick figure with “Hero-kun” written on the face for the majority of this movie and gotten the same effect.
If your movie has me leaving with like 15 wasted concepts that I want to see expanded upon in fanfic, then you done wrote a pretty bad movie.
Zero, I mean ZERO, thought directed towards the doomsday cult that incites the movie. Exactly one of their members is given a motive, and it is ridiculous. There’s a recurring, seemingly intriguing quirked assassin trying to eliminate her own kind, and I’m not even sure she spoke. Once again, movie could’ve just subbed in a piece of paper that said “evil” on it and gotten just as far.
Also, beyond being paper-thin and boring, the villain is just ugly design-wise. The animation of his quirk was at least inspired, but the man himself is laughable to look at. Don’t make your holy genocidal maniac a goofy lookin’ dork-ass if you won’t even Betelguese him.
The amount of characters used in this movie for NO REASON. Every time I was shown a character besides todo/baku/deku and Rody legitimately felt like time-filler. In fact, a LOT of this movie felt like filler. So many useless pieces thrown together for the sake of cash content! Quick, get a cutaway of every student in 1A, we need more run-time!
There’s a scene of tdbkdk looking at files on a computer like it’s hacking that’s so emblematic of this. It’s got Bakugou shoving people out of the way to make a discovery TWICE in the same scene just to fill air time. It is not funny, the repetition is not purposeful, it’s just messy and says “Idk what to write here.”
Almost everything that happened moment to moment in this movie was a plothole; the plot itself became a reason-sucking void. 4% of decisions made sense with even a second of scrutiny. Deku struggles to pull a car up a hill with black whip instead of lifting the thing, and that stupidity is a symbol for every other action taken. Were my cringe-counter converted into shots, I would be dead.
Also, in case you were wondering, not a single song slapped. Not even the montage song. Tragic. There was also a dramatic moment where Deku clenched his fist and it made a sound like my bare foot on a wood floor. He was wearing gloves. Nice foley.
In conclusion: season 5 was beyond bad, but if you hoped it was at least a worthy sacrifice for the movie, think again.
I know it’s fun shounen and my standards can only be so high, but this movie was buried 6 feet below an already low bar.
The end credits deserved a GTA death screen for criminally WASTED potential.
Mixed Feelings
This movie was boringly average. It felt like I was in the cinema for hours, stuck in a time chamber that slowed downtime were a 1 minute felt like 10. The animation, story, characters, voice acting, and pacing were all average or below. It's just odd because the last movie suffered from none of those problems. I think there were times when the animation did something unique with extremely long shot animation but even then half the time it didn't feel like polished animation. If it wasn't for those parts the film would probably be a 3/10 instead of a 5. Just disappointing overall.
JaJack_Harper
October 29, 2021
Recommended
*SPOILER-FREE REVIEW* I just want to say, first of all, watching this in the cinema is 10 times better than at home. This is going to be an unpopular opinion but, I really enjoyed this film. It felt kind of James Bond-like somehow. The fight scenes looked great and kept me hooked throughout. The story was solid and didn't feel like any parts were pointless. The addition of the rest of the class in some parts of the film seemed forced. I liked the villain and his motives made a good reason for their actions, but there could have been more focus on their backstory insome way. It didn't get boring at all, I was enjoying it that much that I waited until I was literally about to wet myself to go to the toilet. There were no parts in the film that dragged on. The art was definitely move quality and looked great in my opinion. The sound was as good as you can get with anime to be honest, same quality as the rest of the My Hero Academia series. The costumes were very cool but got at most a minute of screen time which I thought was stupid. Why were they wearing them in the first place if they were going to stop using them 5 minutes into the film?
Anyway, I enjoyed the film and would definitely recommend watching it to anyone who likes the series as a whole.
DoDoofenheimer
November 1, 2021
Recommended
Ah, My Hero Academia. Depending on what year you asked someone you'd get varying answers of how good this show is. If you asked someone in 2017 about MHA, they would tell you it's one of the best shows out. If you ask in 2021, they will tell you it's mid garbage. Why is this? Well, many theories come to my mind. The first one is pretty simple, it got popular. People don't like it when a show becomes more popular than their favorite show or a show they prefer over it. So what do they do? Shit on it till it becomes "mid." Everyanime that shoots up in popularity eventually has a "mid" phase to cancel out it's success because we all know success is something no one can have anymore in 2021. So now MHA is in a much more sorry state than it was in 2017-2018 when it was booming. Now with the question, is it because My Hero actually got worse or are people just sheep and like to have the mainstream opinions just to fit in? That's an answer for you to decide. People only started hating My Hero when it became a trend to. And now any content the show pulls out is neglected as a cash grab and pointless. It's quite pathetic tbh. Because imo, My Hero is and has been the best new gen show since 2017 and nothing as come close to it. Now in 2021, that kind of opinion would send you to the looney house and it's difficult to express it. My Hero has constantly pumped out quality content and has flowed its story for over 100 episodes without many hiccups. Bone's adaptation of the manga is amazing and one of the few shows where you can say both the manga and anime are high quality. And the movies they put out have god tier animation which can entertain anyone. It's just hard to ignore My Hero's success and it's almost objectively the best new gen simply from sales. World Heroes' Mission doesn't take the back seat either and delivers eye candy that will have you on the edge of your seat for hours. The story was fine but it's a filler movie so I didn't expect it to be a Steven King novel anyways. The other reviews here are stabbing its story and idk what they expected from a filler movie. The cast is the same as they've always been and the villain has a super cool power. Overall, this movie did what it was supposed to do, entertain. As to why people expected the next Dune level of writing I'll never understand but hey, sheep will be sheep eh? I hope to see My Hero gain back the respect it deserves but as of now, its bound to the fate of being a successful show, a mass of haters.
