Apr 11, 2021
To my tastes, this film is extremely pretty, much more so than the previous Sharp film. Some of the visual elements remind me of Casshern Sins. There's an occasion wonky 3D environment, but it looks mostly great, even for Doremi standards. And honestly this film is pretty much an excuse to see the Doremi cast well-animated, in a pretty environment, and in HD. That said, the presentation is the most significant element here.
Structure wise the film is a bit of a mess. The pacing feels bizarre at many points. Some scenes feel weird and focused on for too long, yet major plot points are
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sprinted through. And this plot is not particularly memorble compared to the show, it's like the show knows the plot isn't super significant. The whole thing with the girls wanting to sit on the grandfather's lap was weird. Everyone was so excited to despite the fact they barely new Doremi and Pop's grandfather. When Aiko explains her memories that caused her to be scared of the grandfather and feels better after simply telling Momoko this, I actually thought this was because she didn't want them to worry about her, and this was hinting at a further plot point because of the exaggeration of her relief, but nope, she's fine now.
One great thing about the Doremi series is it's ability to transition between comedy and drama basically seamlessly, but they did not pull that off in this film. There's a segment where everyone's enjoying dinner, Aiko is now feeling comfortable with Doremi's grandfather and suddenly it's revealed he will die soon, and everyone bursts into tears. It felt quite unnatural.
The soundtrack is mostly the same as the show. The closing song was nice, which I think is original.
Despite all my criticism, I liked this, likely because I really enjoy the Doremi series, and it being very aesthetically on-point.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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