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Eiga Go-Toubun no Hanayome (2022)
A Spoiler Free Review
Ah harem anime. It's becomes a staple of anime. A genre like science fiction, comedy or action and like every genre you need something different to stand out. The Quintessential Quintuplets is one but unlike other harems where we wonder who the main character is going to end with, we know or main character will marry one of them. After two seasons, I thought we'd get a three season and more but instead we got a movie to wrap it up. I was a little skeptical at first but this one of one greatest anime movies from a series I've seen and I going to tell you WITHOUT ANY SPOILERS! This is my spoiler free review of The Quintessential Quintuplets movie
The plot is this. Following their summer vacation, Futaro Uesugi and the Nakano quintuplets Ichika, Nino, Miku, Yotsuba, and Itsuki, now third-year high school students, prepare for the upcoming school festival. On the day of the festival, Futaro invites the quintuplets to a room and confesses his love to them, but he tells them to wait until the end of the festival to know whom he has chosen among them. Each girl will get at least 15 minute segment. Showing a problem for each one and how they and Futaro solved it. In awhile this makes the movie the three season. It does get a little confusing at time but oh the pay off
So you can probably think that's all the movie is going to be but no. We see the girls past chase up to them in a way no one thought would happen but it does answer a big question I believe many where asking. Not to mention we finally see who Futaro picked and in all honesty I was absolutely surprised. I'm not going to tell you because this a spoiler free review but if you like me you'd be amazed. For the longest time, it looked like they were setting him up with one particular girl. That's not what happened and I loved that. It shows that just because you think it going the way you want doesn't mean it will. Still I'm happy for his pick and I have no doubt they will be happy together
Now I called this one of the greatest anime movies from a series I've seen. You are probably wondering why I said. Allow me to explain. Most anime movies based on series in my experience have tried to make some that wasn't close to the mark or tried to make something artsy. Ruining the film and quite possibly the show in general. For explain the Tenchi Muyo movies. The first was set in the Tenchi Universe world which is fine but most of time tried to something that's it's not. It still had action but only in the last 15 minutes
The second was just a Christmas special basically. I do like the background music and music in general but honestly that's probably the only thing going for it
The third movie you couldn't ven call a Tenchi movie. Just a whole different series with a movie. They just put Tenchi characters in. The art style was very nice. Down right beautiful. However that alone can't carry a movie. You need a story and this story is pretty weak
Now don't get me wrong. I'm not saying those were the worst. I'm just saying that I didn't find those stories particularly good. To each their own. However The Quintessential Quintuplets movie hits all the right spots to make it interesting while you ask who is Futaro going to pick. I know a lot of people are going to be either upset, sad or happy with who he picks but funny enough that's life. We often want this person to be with that person or we see things going this way rather than this way. Thing is we can't control others emotions. Just our own. You are either going to happy with his pick or upset. In the end I'm happy for him and his pick. This does make me wonder how this will affect the new anime they announced but we'll cross that bridge when we get there. If you want to see The Quintessential Quintuplets movie, it's on Crunchyroll. I recommend you watch after watching or for many people rewatching the anime. It helps. I hope you enjoyed this review.
Pixels (2015)
My review of one of the worst movies in a while, Pixels
A lot of people said how bad Pixels is. That is one of the worst movies made. But I had hope that maybe this movie was good. That one person may like this where others hate it. Hope that this isn't as bad as it. You know what I did that hope after watching this movie. I took it behind my house and shot it in the back of the head. Then set it on fire. This movie was awful
The opening scene is Brenner and Will as kids and what do they do? They steal a little girl's money selling lemonade. Our heroes ladies and gentlemen. Clearly this two have high morals
Years after a time capsule is shot into space with video game footage, aliens find the capsule and immediately think it's an act of war. The aliens are stupid. This aliens are so advance that they are basically pure energy and yet they can't see video games are just for entertainment. Do they have any entertainment or are this aliens not only stupid but boring as well?
My biggest complaint is Peter Dinklage character Eddie. He's just awful. The character is basic guy who thinks he's the best in the world and just a terrible human being. He's in prison and one of his demands of his help is he wants Serena Williams and Martha Stewart in the Lincoln bedroom. I have never felt more unclean until he said that. I almost got sick. Literally my stomach felt terrible. In the "last" battle against Pac-Man, he cheated. He put into a code to make his car move faster. Wait what!?! That makes sense in a video game but IS REAL LIFE!!! You cannot enter a cheat code and suddenly boom you're unstoppable. And he never really learned his lesson really. He just says I'm sorry and everything is good. No. No! NO! He's the biggest reason the aliens called them cheaters because he cheated. He in the end he gets Serena and Martha in the Lincoln bedroom. He shouldn't of be rewarded at all
One of the things that bug me the most is Admiral Porter "The Bully" doesn't his comeuppance. He spent most of movie shooting down Sandler and Josh Gad's characters but never gets is just desserts. He has that doesn't make sense to me at all. He's watching TV about Sandler and all the good his teams done and say "I don't know what's worst. If they fail or they succeed". That answer is easy. IF THEY FAIL!!! They fail and world is destroyed. Are you the egotistical? Later he calls out Sandler and Michelle Monaghan characters and that's the last we see of him. It would of been awesome if he was fired or something. ANYTHING!!!
OK. I have said a lot of bad things. Let's talk about some good things and put some bad things about them. First everyone had a problem with Kevin James as The President of the United States. He was a great president. He acted like a president. People only see him a party animal or blue collared slacker. Here he doesn't. Yes there is a scene where he party with the troops after a victory over the aliens but I would of react the same way. When Sandler and Gad brings proof of the aliens, he doesn't believe them like the president would. He acts like a president would and should. The only problem I have is Jane Krakowski plays his wife. I'm sorry but I don't see Kevin James and Jane Krakowski hooking up. It's just weird
I really enjoyed how the aliens communicated. They used old video clips to communicate their massages. I had Ronald Reagan. Hall & Oates. They even had Madonna. That was pretty funny
I don't have a problem with Josh Gad's character being in love with a video game character. A lot people are. I mean come on Rule 34. Enough said
Finally Adam Sandler plays a character that isn't a idiot. I know he has before but we have gotten so use to it that we just accept it. His character, Brenner, which is a terrible name for a person, see patterns in video games that no one could find. That's amazing. He could tell the difference between the 1982 and 1986 video game. That to me is pretty cool. I wouldn't be able to the difference and I doubt others could too. My main problem he let's that lost in a video game tournament when he was a kid control his life. I'm not going to pretend this hasn't happened to anyone. I've had some events were I wish I could go back and changed it but here's the thing, it was one event. JUST ONE and he got second place in a national tournament. My God if I got second place in anything national, I'd been the happier guy around. You couldn't surgically removed the smile. It would look like The Joker from Tim Burton's Batman. Yeah that big. And yet he not thinks that was terrible but let it control his life. I'm sorry. I know you are trying to make me feel bad for this character but it doesn't come off like that. It feels like a bird poop on your car so can't drive that car anymore it was some it ws traumatic. It's nothing
In conclusion, it's not a bad idea. It just doesn't work here. Someone may like this, I'm just not that someone