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Aug 28, 2014
Mixed Feelings
The story in this Detective Conan film is a bit of a mixed bag. There's plenty of thrilling action scenes that are really fun and exciting to watch, but in-between all of that is a pretty lackluster treasure hunt mystery. While I won't spoil the solution for you, I will say that it's not quite as ingenious or well-written as many of the other solutions in the main show. This left the story, as a whole, feeling kind of average and lackluster.

The art is along the same lines, as well. During those action scenes, there's some really impressive stuff, but in-between those scenes, it looked about on par with what you'd see in an episode of the TV series in 2007 (when the movie was released). Now, the TV series doesn't look bad by any means, but I would expect a bit more detail from a feature film. Unfortunately, we only get that extra detail in the opening scene, and a few others, leaving the art also feeling like a mixed bag.

Sound design is well done. Sound effects are loud and booming when they need to be and adds to the experience, giving it that real theatrical feel. The soundtrack is pretty standard and the same as it commonly is. I believe the only new piece of music is the ending theme, but I didn't much care for it. Voice actors do a fine job, as usual. Nothing too surprising here, but a solid job on the audio side of things.

The main cast are all just as fun and charming as they are in the main series; however, the new characters that they introduce for this story end up falling kind of flat, and feel very forgettable.

Overall, this is a fun, simple film that is a good watch if you're a fan of the series. However, it feels less like a big, theatrical production, and more like just another filler story of the main series with a few theatrically produced action scenes thrown in for good measure. It's not bad by any means, and I enjoyed parts of it, but as a whole it fails to impress me all that much, and thus, it gets a 6 out of 10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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