#237 Fairy Tail Movie Review (Spoiler Alert: It Sucks)
Fairy Tail: the Pheonix Priestess Movie
This movie doesn’t deserve a full review. I give it 2/10 rating.
Why? Well, the animation is top notch, I’ll give it that.. And there’s an adorable yellow chicken thing. (See image bellow) That’s why it gets 2 points.
All the other points were missed because:
1. The fight scenes were too simple and focused more on showing every single Fairy Tail member fight instead of having few epically good battles with a couple couple characters.
2. Fairy Tail had the upper hand the entire time so there really was no suspense. For most of the movie, it was 4 enemies from Carbuncle Vs Natsu, Gray, Lucy, Erza, Wendy, Charla, and Happy. Then everybody else joined in except Romeo and the dancing guy.
3. The chicken had virtually no use. Well other than to speak for Eclair (even though he barely knew her himself) and to “save” her life. You don’t really see him successfully undoing the chain though, so it doesn’t count. Eclair isn’t even nice to him until after she’s dead.
4. The Magic Council had a meeting at the beginning of the movie about something that might destroy the world, but still refused to help throughout the movie. I think it was just to introduce that the Magic Council exists.
5. Gajeel and Lily were sent on some secret mission by the Master at the beginning of the movie right after the council meeting that we never know about but doesn’t seem to have any affect on the plot whatsoever.
6. Lucy cries 4 times. It’s not just a cry. She bawls. She cries and screams like she’s dying because she’s sad for Eclair, the movie damsel in distress. It’s sad, but it doesn’t really distract from the fact that THE WORLD IS ENDING. She’d rather save Eclair, let the world explode, and then everybody dies. Not once does it cross her mind that Eclair is being sacrificed for the good of all humanity.
7. All the bad guys have unique powers. All except one. One of the characters has the exact same power as Erza. She also has the power to dispel magic, but still. Everything else was unoriginal.
8. The aim of the plot got totally messed up. I can’t figure out if it was to to save the world, save a girl, the importance of friendship, or to find out if magic was good or evil. I think the answer is close to… all of the above.
March 4, 2013 at 2:16 pm
The thing I always hated about shonen anime movies was that they aren’t canon and always have a sappy-like ending and really bad animation compared to the main show.
If anything this movie was a long OVA.
March 4, 2013 at 8:36 pm
I do agree with the sappy story and the long OVA.
I don’t agree that the animation is worse. I have yet to see an anime movie with worse animation than the main show… other than FMAB: Sacred Star of Milos.
March 4, 2013 at 8:55 pm
[…] But I did watch the prologue that wasn’t there before. With that, I am able to cross out number 3 on the list of things wrong with this movie! […]
April 15, 2013 at 5:17 am
i think your a complete dickhead
April 19, 2013 at 2:49 pm
The film was incredibly crappy, indeed.
But about point 5, if you had just thought a little then you would have seen that gajeel had to get that arrow thingy because the magic council wouldn’t give it.
But still, this does not make the movie good whatsoever.
Still a huge waste of time.
July 6, 2013 at 6:58 am
I think by Fairy Tail standards, it’s pretty good. Overall, it was crap. But let’s face it; that’s the best we can expect from Fairy Tail. We’re often just forced into fights that end so stupidly, abruptly or both, no matter what importance they have. Even in the movie, Natsu apparently just beats the guy by sheer willpower or whatnot. Eclair’s development was barely… Developed on at all… The chicken was useless, yeah that was frustrating…
The only thing I give the movie credit for was that they managed to add more action into the scenes to make them more decent-looking and less of the typical still-picture-of-certain-moves-execution thing that typical shounens are guilty off…
Overall, the movie was… Just… A huge disappointment.
July 14, 2014 at 1:30 pm
bad plot structure