Boku no Hero Academia the Movie 1: Futari no Hero

Boku no Hero Academia the Movie: Futari no Hero is predictable, from the very beginning, but still a typical shounen movie that will make you smile.

It's an enjoyable movie, but this is overshadowed by the fact the artwork looks like a budget episode from the series (most of the time anime movies have better animation, but I find it's the opposite here).

They introduce the new characters well. Melissa despite being a little bland you can get behind her actions. Dave as well, when you find out his motivation and relationship with All Might.

Though I find the movie gives quite a bit ... of clunky dialogue with the characters, and at times it seems awkward, as it feels like the characters are just speaking "exposition". There's also a large beginning portion of the movie in the first act dedicated to the same flashbacks you've seen a hundred times in the anime.

I think the story's main problem is adding almost too many of the classmates, some of the kids from UA just happen to be on the Island, and aren't intricate to the plot at all it's just a shot of them in the hotel room, and it's kind of a pointless addition. The characters who take part in the final fight have a purpose, and as they move up the floors you can get behind their actions, but it almost feels they brought to many of them, and would have done better with a tighter cast of just five of them.

The other problem is, a lot of the plot is just predictable at the end, you can almost see every turn coming. The final fight also used 'the power of friendship' trope that I often find the show usually doesn't resort to, making the final encounter almost a bit redundant as it keeps going.

The use of the soundtrack to kind of felt like they were checking off items in a box, making sure to hit every one of the classic music from the series. At times these are used epic, other times though it feels really out of place and like they should have used an original track and not tried to force one we've already heard that doesn't quite fit the scene.

Overall it is a good movie with a few quick laughs (also a lot more guns than ever seen before, they really are in America now, huh), but the art almost makes it feel like a TV special and like the movie was rushed because of all the hype going on with the series. But if you like the anime, you'll probably like the movie, so it's worth taking a look.

This movie is the very definition of mediocre.
First of all, right off the bat I'm gonna say, Boku No Hero is a series I deeply enjoy. Even tho I clearly understand It's pretty cliche and by-the-books, it's been overall nicely paced and competently directed. So, when I saw they were going to make a movie I became very excited. A movie has the perfect runtime to present a self contained story, where we can get to know our favorite characters in a more intimate way. The anime follows the events of the manga religiously, so I understand why there's no much room to improve upon ... the source material.
That's why I really looked forward to this movie. Right from the start we know this film it's pretty much strictly tied to what it can and can't do. This happens between the 2nd and 3rd season, so pretty much nothing of importance can happen during it's runtime, as it needs to left us right where we were at the beginning. And because of that of that the scale and scope of the events presented don't really have much impact in the universe. However, this necessarily didn't had to be bad, as it may not had an impact in the world but in characters of this universe.
However, this is where the movie fails for me. this feels like 4 episodes stitched together. events just happen one after another with not much rhyme or reason. Just like in the show, there's no much depth to our cast at all. All of our dear students are the same archetypes we know. This is not itself bad, however, this felt like a really missed opportunity to flesh out those that we don't know very well beyond face value. Just like in the show, we're just there to watch Midoriya save the day and in a more minor way Todoroki and Bakugo being cool and stuff. Everyone else is just a backdrop nedeed in order to shove them in the promotional material.
Ultimately this doesn't feel like it had any right to exist beyond banking on the popularity of the show.
Maybe you could say, "Hey, that's pretty stupid. 99% of the anime out there exists only because of committees wanting to make some bucks."
And in a certain way, you're right. Money is the motor that moves the anime industry. However, I just can't let this movie go without guilt. There's so much media out there that exists with the sole purpose of making a profit on an already established franchise that is also very well made and has some value beyond the monetary gain.
Something like Gundam 0080 War In The Pocket (Which I recently reviewed, *wink wink*) comes to mind. Not driven by the major events of a story we have been told already (The O.Y.W.) but by a cast of characters that are developed, that we root for and like. None of this can be found in Futari No Hero. I can't recommend it if you're not a fan. Hell, I can't recommend it even if you are fan. There's nothing to be gained from this watching experience.

TL;DR: Imagine 4 bland forgettable shonen anime filler episodes. But instead of putting them awkwardly during the events of the show they just decide to stitch them together and release them as a bland forgettable movie.

This review is for the English dubbed version that I saw in theaters

"the best movie I've ever seen!!" is certainly not something I'd call this.

The story is pretty typical, nothing to really talk about. It's not garbage but it's certainly nothing unique.

The art is exactly like you'd see from a normal episode. In fact, a lot of this is like you'd see in a normal episode... it almost seems like IT IS A NORMAL EPISO-

The sound... what sound? Oh, you mean the amazing Soundtrack I expected to hear throughout the movie? Yeah... almost nonexistent. Where was it? IDK. It seemed like the sound designer took ... a fiesta for this one. Bits of dialogue with no background sounds whatsoever. Complete silence that, in a theater, was actually jarring to hear. Maybe Funimation screwed up the dubbed version and the subbed is a million times better (or it could have even been the theater for all i know) but from what I heard and saw, the sound design in this film was pitiful. Felt like no original music whatsoever was used, All-For-One's theme was used for a bit during the villain fight (which was alright in context but felt like they could've done something different here) (Note: the villain of this film is NOT all-for-one, hence why it's strange to hear a theme for a villain whose given less than 20 seconds of screen time).

The characters are the same characters you remembered from Season 2 with the addition of a few new ones that were fine. Just fine... Everything was just fine.

Enjoyment. The movie started strong with All-Might's past and setting up his relationship with Dave Shield (although I question if All Might saved anything here... all that cash flying in the wind...) and I felt like it was doing okay up until it got to the villains showing up. From there my enjoyment started to drop... before getting a little hyped again during the Magneto battle... and then falling again at how predictable everything was.

6/10. I had higher hopes, perhaps that was on me. Felt more like a 1hr 30min episode.

I am a big fan of Hero Academia but this movie sucks, it's so predictable and boring I could barely finish it. The dialog is so cheesy and the new characters aren't interesting at all. This only has a high rating based off the already popular tv show. I have no clue who would give this an 8 or higher that's crazy. I wouldn't recommend anyone to watch this just skip it, I was expecting better. This doesn't make me change my mind about how season 4 will be though I'm still looking forward to that. Maybe some very young viewers or new anime watchers ... would enjoy this but besides that I don't get the point of this movie. Season 3 was already doing well this just makes the show look bad to people that haven't seen it. If I had just watched this without seeing any of the tv show I would have thought the show sucked and never given it a chance, this is not a good look.

Sorry for the google translation, I did my best

History: 5
The story is no big deal, part of the twists in the story with Dave, Sam, Melissa, Deku and the villain was terrible, seriously, it seems to be Naruto in the War, one thing after another that makes history change, it may seem strange, but think like the Akatsuki, the leader of each plot is that which is controlled by B, which is the will of C.

Art: 8
Nothing much different from the anime, in some parts the anime is better. My problem with art was that it
season three, when I knew this, I expected more.

Sound: 8
Nothing ... to comment on, not memorable either for good or bad sense

Character: 8 *
This note has one though. It's 8 if the characters are going to be reused at some point, I think so, but if they're just characters in the movie, the note decrease. About Dave and Melissa, I would like if they (for me, only Melissa worth) were deepened

Enjoy: 5
It's a meeh ... it was not a good movie for me, when they start running to climb the tower, I immediately think "look at the movie HxH, the worst for me, but the fights for me are cool, but the plot is a shit ", in the end Futari no Hero, proves be the same film. The only point positive in BnH was not trying a new concept (I am talk about you the anti-nem or dark nem or nem malefic).

Shonen Factor: ?????
This category varies from person to person, if the movie were more direct, I would like more, but no, it was annoying. The character stops to talking, I know Boku no Hero is not only fights, but the time needs action, my feelings were of when the movie ends. This is a sin of Shonen's, history and on plan are important, but it can not disturb the rhythm of the narrative.

Villan: 3
This is strange, I could not ask a villain with background story, but this is mediocre, no, mediocre is a praise. I'd rather have been random thugs who wanted to ruin the conference for X-reason or dislike All Might, but this is ridiculous, the relationship with All for One and the monstrous form were jokes to my intelligence. I like it when All Might arrives and destroys the helicopters. I thought "WOWWWW, he killed the villain who kidnapped his friend, the ORU MAITO badass," but the scene with the villain alive was an insult to me.

General: 6
Many characters, mediocre story, OK fights, even technical quality of anime or rather introduction of two people who perhaps influence the story. Overall it's a good movie, watch it once and it's over. The best way to remember this is by watching AMV, but it is a waste of time. You probably have better things to do than watch mediocre movies that do not involve anything, it's not wrong the movie has nothing to say (or not, I do not know if Dave and Melissa will come back) One Piece movies are like that, but they are narratively complete and good story (I do not watch all the movies to say this other than the last 4). Futari no Hero, was not necessary for me, unless Melissa returned to the canon of history. And is awesome watch the young All Might.

Again, Sorry for the google translation, I did my best

This movie is serviceable. The story is simple, straightforward, predictable, and inconsequential. It all takes place on a far off island that we’ll probably never see again in the series. Since there are zero real stakes involved, it makes it hard to feel invested in what’s going on. I suppose that is what is to be expected with Shounen anime movies, though. The opening scene has a young All Might apprehending a villain which was probably the most exciting part of the whole movie. If the rest of the story were just young All Might adventures, I think I might have enjoyed that more.

The art ... doesn’t seem to stand out from the original anime up until about the last 10 to 15 minutes of the movie, where it seems like most of the budget went. The fight scenes are nothing unique and interesting, except for the final one, so you won’t see the characters doing anything different with their powers than you would see them do in the show. The students’ colorful hero outfits are traded in for boring formal attire for most of the movie, which is disappointing since it gives the whole movie a very gray and sanitized look.

This was my first time watching these characters voiced by their English VAs, and I have to say, I’m impressed. Each character sounded completely natural and their voice actor fit their personality to a T. The music was fine, but not memorable.

The two original characters introduced in this movie are essentially the poster boy and poster girl for quirkless heroes. As father-daughter-combo scientists, Melissa and Dave use their inventions to help the heroes save the day. On the one hand, their presence is appreciated since it adds a new layer to the world of MHA we haven’t seen before. How much respect can you gain as a quirkless person in this world? The answer is: quite a lot, it seems. On the other hand, their presence is a detriment because they can essentially invent anything that can solve any of the heroes’ problems. And in this movie, they actually do invent devices which would greatly help our main characters. But of course, such devices are not meant to last and will never be spoken of again. As characters themselves, I think I will forget about them soon, given their generic personalities and bland design. Melissa is your typical one-note optimist while Dave is only slightly interesting because of his friendship with All Might. The villain is also pretty forgettable, he’s your vanilla bad guy that’s barely worth mentioning.

Overall, the movie was a fairly enjoyable ride that I think other fans of MHA will enjoy, since it technically delivers the stuff that MHA is known for - big heroic fights involving characters we love. That being said, I don’t think it comes close to matching the emotional heights that the original anime has reached. As a one-off filler movie, it’s impossible to do that. Still, I would have hoped to see something new. A young All Might was fun to watch, but beyond that there is not much to this movie, and I don’t think fans would miss much by not watching it.

Story - 7/10
For a filler-ish shounen movie it holds up well enough story wise. Not too unique or twisting in terms of story but it gets the job done.

Art - 5/10
It doesn't look bad per say, but it arguably looks worse than the show and uses some effects that the show doesn't that kinda stand out, in a bad way.

Sound - 7/10
MHA has a good soundtrack, difficult to mess this up, however the music seems crammed in at points, almost as if they kinda wanted to put in every OST just for the sake of it, which does detract.

Character - 7/10
The characters from the show/manga ... act mostly like themselves. And the new characters are not bad, though they are not exactly compelling either. Not much to say.

Enjoyement - 6/10
Besides the first ~15-20 which had some recap, probably because they wanted the movie to be somewhat accessible to people who hadn't seen the show (though I don't know why people who doesn't watch it would like to see the movie), it was a good time. Never did I feel like checking the remaining time of the movie or like I wanted to stop watching, but I also never felt super compelled.

Overall - 6/10
It's worth watching. I don't know if I'd ever buy it as a Blue-Ray or DVD, well actually I know I wouldn't, however with nothing better to do and a streaming service you might as well.

I'll keep this short in light of the hype BNHA has: this was ultimately a rehash of all your favourite things in the first and second seasons, made bland by repetition.

• Story (5/10)
Picking up from the middle of the second season, it introduces a much awaited glimpse into All Might's past and his affiliations, whilst managing the present day events. The former does not disappoint, but the current happenings to "UA's finest" is the same old formula of:
a) meeting up with friends and introduction of new characters
b) their fun days are spoiled with the appearance of villains
c) they struggle to plan and ... defeat villains
d) [expected] twist nearing the conclusion
e) after an emotional flashback they defeat said (somewhat overpowered) villains

Unless you are still not tired of the age-old shounen series story pacing, then the plot moves at a snail's pace in reaching its climax and will bore you as it sags underneath its own weight in the middle.

• Art (7/10)
As expected of Studio Bones, they do deliver. The art style, while not going through massive changes, is perhaps the saving grace of the movie.
It is smooth and colourful, with proper attention to certain details and going full blast on the fight scenes. Keeping in stride with the manga's original artwork, the broad strokes and sometimes exaggerated actions used really highlight the movie's homage to American comics of old.

• Sound (6/10)
While it may not boast the best soundtrack, even reusing some tracks from seasons 1 and 2, it is mediocre. The tracks pump adrenaline into the scenes but fail to elicit any major emotional response from the audience. It certainly could have done better in this department, considering its track record with soundtracks.

• Character (5/10)
Personally, I could not bring myself to care much for the new characters introduced, especially not the two-bit villains this time around.
The Shields are great additions whose potential was lost with deliberate shoe-horning of emotional events. Melissa is the star as she interacts the most with the UA team, and presents herself as a brave lady who is brilliant in IT even with her "handicap". David on the other hand, is painted as a generic character who oscillates between the greater good and personal good at the very end. Though it would have been great to know more about his adventures with All Might, unfortunately audiences were not treated with that this time around.
As for the villains with their similar goals and aspirations to every other villain out there; let's just say they pale in comparison to complex figures like Stain and Shigaraki.

• Overall / Enjoyment (6/10)
It was a movie that honestly, could have done a lot better. While it is great to see our favourite characters battling and bonding on screen once again, if the plot falls short the foundations would all come crashing down. Good scriptwriting is one of the major keys in making a story the audience cannot forget; and this movie of the BNHA franchise is unfortunately forgettable.

I appreciate that this movie actually expands on the world of My Hero Academia and also explores more of All Might's backstory. Apart from that the movie is very predictable and forgettable.

It doesn't help that the villain is unmemorable and the supporting character Melissa who is quirkless, could've been very interesting but just ends up being a very bland supporting character.

The animation quality is just more or less the same as the show which is disappointing as you would expect they would give this a movie budget quality but it never really amounts to anything more.

It's not terrible movie and if you ... already liked the show then this is just basically more of that. It's a shame they didn't use the movie to do more though.

Honestly, it was fine. Just a movie to put that arc somewhere, I get it.
Nothing special really, there are some anime movies continued from a series that I love, this was eh, okay.
The girl that we get introduced to with the glasses though is very pretty, just felt like I had to add that in since this series is known for it's lovely ladies, although as we know it obnoxiously sexualizes them.
Anyways okay movie, it's kinda just something to watch if you want to I guess.
From my experience you can understand MHA just fine without watching this movie I believe.
So yeah, it's just whatever.

It was fun, I mean it wasn't spectacular? It was fun. Do you know what I mean? As stated before by others, it's incredibly predictable and unoriginal (that sounds so bad but come on, what did we really expect) but it's still a pretty good time. I would say it is not necessary to watch this movie to understand the series at all. It has some lore but I don't think will affect the main series in the slightest.

Art style remains the same from the series, very high quality.

The characters are as you would expect from the series: kind of generic, predictable (sorry but let's ... be honest), but still fun (I don't know how else to describe this movie...).

Again, it was fun, nothing amazing.

Imagine if this movie was the first thing about MHA you see (and you're not a shounen fan), would it appeal to you? Admittedly, I would have enjoyed this movie as an MHA first-timer and non-shounen fan. That's why the irony is that, as an avid MHA fan, this movie was a slap in the face. The production value was nice, but the effort to write a decent and well thought-out storyline was low-key. This movie clearly rode on the coattails of the series' success to be this mediocre and predictable, and possibly not up-to-date with what's actually happening in the show.

Like most anime movies ... based on a series, the setting is in an isolated movie-only situation. There are some new people who show up in the movie to be relevant (with a shoehorned backstory to justify that), there's villains to be worried about, and it's up to our heroes to save the day. This formula is followed by this movie to a T. To add insult to injury, only a certain and very small portion of the UA cast were selected to take center stage, while the rest were given 5 to 10 seconds of screentime before pushing them out of the picture once their existence in the movie was established.

To say nothing of the MHA characters, some of them were turned into cliche stereotypes of themselves, while most of them barely did anything to make an impact throughout the movie. And again, this was because of the 95% being cut out of the plot.

As for the movie-only characters, the Shields (which I daresay is a blatant Marvel reference), their part to play in All Might's making as the greatest hero of all time doesn't have the kind of impact the screenwriter must have been banking on. Nothing was at stake or gained with this family; whatever reasons they had for doing what they did or what they wanted to do, were half-hearted and barely believable to really make fans care about what they may achieve outside of the main story, let alone root for their success. The Shields went through the motions of being heartwarming and stirring up the conflict necessary to give them all an adversary to fight back, and they still pale in comparison to the accomplishments of Horikoshi's own characters, who were always a cut above the usual anime tropes.

Nothing was gained or reaffirmed in this movie. It was pure filler from start to finish. On a more personal note, I'm still waiting for Bones (or preferably Horikoshi himself) to write up a movie storyline that plays out like a DC animated film instead of another anime cashgrab, really give me something to get hyped up about.

The very first movie of one of the most escalated shounen anime rising in popularity that was hyped up. People in the BNHA fanbase were excited for it, even I was into thinking it'll be great, but was unable to purchase the movie because of money issues. I just so happened to find a copy in the college library I work at and decided to check it out myself after waiting for so long to do so on a weekend night.

And in a way, I was disappointed to some extent.

What is my issue you might ask? Why am I, who consider myself a BNHA fan, ... be annoyed with how this movie was played? Well, here's why...

Warning: Spoilers

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Story [5]: Okay, the story was a rough 5-6 score point for me. Yes, the story is not meant to be a solid canon to the BNHA main storyline, but at the same time, it's pretty forgettable. It doesn't have a storyline that hasn't been done before in other shounen stories. Defeat some big bad villain and win the day. The only reason that the main villain in the whole story is really there is because of the canon villain in the main storyline. The thing with the main storyline villains that we are introduced to have character development and backstories. That would be extremely difficult to accomplish in a movie timeframe, I agree. But our main villain in the movie is just cheesy. He doesn't really have a real goal besides snatching a person and an item before bolting off somewhere. The 'plot twists' in the movie are predictable, especially if you have watched other shounen movies or even just movies in general before.

All the characters we know in the main storyline or are introduced to in the movie are just...there. They have no real purpose besides to set up the movie's storyline. They are there with the lamest of excuses. Only our main protagonist and his mentor appear to have a swell purpose in there throughout the movie. It's just a coincidence that they're all there. Instead of this, they should've just brought in all the classmates and say it was a school trip or something. But then they'd have to spend more of a budget for this movie with more voice actors coming in, character drawings, etc. You wanna know what pissed me off the most? When the characters are looking at each other, they for some reason have some sort of telepathic understanding of what the other wants from them. What??? It would be as pointless if there was nothing being said that whole time of just staring at each other! Was there something I miss in the main storyline that where the characters all learn this telepathic communication thing with just their eyes? Was there someone telepathic in the midst something letting them do that? I don't understand!

But it would've been more worth the time to push this movie out, right? It's rather obvious the movie was created just for a cash grab with a plot this stiff;

Sorry for the rant there, but here's the plot of it; main protag comes in with his mentor and coincidentally, meets some of his classmates there. They do some stuff together, happy happy, and then the big bad villain comes in to sh*t on their parade. Big bad villain takes down main protag's badass mentor with some other heroes and its up to the main protag to kick his ass with his classmates, get the girl (who won't matter after this movie), and get that happy, pointless ending.

That's the plot. Mediocre is a real good title for the score point.

Art [7]: The art's pretty alright. It holds up to it's main storyline's art. It holds true to the character designs. But I can notice even on my first movie watch that there are animation and drawing errors when characters do something such as running together. Other times, there's CGI... Yeah, that's a tough thing to work with on a 2D animation level. It's not the worst. But it's definitely not Ghost in the Shell levels. One of the obstacles that the characters have to face is so simple and bland-looking that I question why it was even CGI-made to begin with. Only part I thought was ideal to use CGI on was at the very end of the movie due to the complicated nature of what was going on.

I think they could've worked more on the animation progress than what they did, but otherwise, it could've worked off as a typical BNHA episode's level of design, if they throw away the CGI junk.

Sound [7]: BNHA's music is amazing. Always so inspiring to hear and almost never do I skip the opening or endings of each main storyline episode I watch with them. Hearing them again in this movie is none the worse. I expected to have new music though at least and not just revised orchestra themed versions, but hey, I already admitted to knowing this movie was just a cash grab. But otherwise, the music is okay when it is there. Otherwise, it's silent and feels somewhat empty whenever something is happening.

Character [4]: HAHAHAHAHA- This is the fun part. The characters we're introduced to are downright cheap and lazy. As I said, it's hard to get a character developed in a matter of a movie's timeframe, but seriously, one of the new characters are absolutely not even important to have. They're there, because...they're there. They are an addition to some backpiece to the mentor's backstory, but otherwise, they could've been pressed off into some manga chapter or slowly formed in the main storyline over time, not in a movie. The unimportant character, named Melissa, has only one purpose in the whole storyline; to help the main protag get back control of the highjacked island that was taken by the big bad villain.

She has no quirk, relating to Midoriya, our main protag. I can see why she was made; just as a romantic option for Midoriya to squeeze in on. They made it obvious that way when all the convenience female classmates that end up there express their jealousy in the beginning when Midoriya is hanging out with Melissa. Since when did they have hots for him besides Uraraka, our bubbly, gravity-free girl? What was the point? If you took Melissa out of the picture, I wouldn't even notice. We already have good based female characters who know what they're doing in a way of hero's work. Midoriya was willing to risk a life of a quirkless girl who was only there to shut down a system. How does she even know how the system works? Did her father make the system? Did she work with security before? That's like a random citizen of a country just knowing how to bypass their government's system. Really cheap. At least she made this boss invention for Midoriya to use to help him succeed, but surprise surprise, he breaks it and he never will use it again, unless somehow, some reason, she decides to remake it for him to use that won't break each time he uses it.

As for her father who has the North American name Dave, because he is from the United States after all, is in relation to All Might, Midoriya's mentor's, backstory as the dude who just stuck around with him. He was saved by All Might, is quirkless like his daughter, and decided to go into the scientific field to invest his time with All Might as a way to thank him and save lives with him, even if indirect. Dave made this certain device for All Might as to improve his heroism, only to have it taken away due to governmental issues with it. He has an assistant named Sam, who betrays him later in the movie, who holds no purpose EITHER besides just handing the device to the big bad villain. He just wanted money for the device even after working all these years with Dave. Talk about worthless loyalty being as worthless as the character.

The big, bad villain I've been talking about? Don't even know his name. Maybe the movie said it somewhere. I don't know, but I certainly don't remember it. I recall the guy having scars all over his face, who had a hyped up reveal throughout the movie, but other than that, he was just another villain with a mask on who was a goon for an actually interesting main villain in the main storyline. Hilarious they only had the main villain's voice actor come in for like, one line only. So the main villain used the device against Midoriya and his friends, but with great spirit, saves the day with his mentor with his trademark b*tch punch power.

The new characters were bland, while the old characters were stale. They were just there. That's the whole damn movie; the characters are there because they are.

Enjoyment [6]: It was your typical shounen anime movie plotline. It's not bad, but it wasn't something that would make you remember the movie. You could've even not watch the movie at all and just stick with the main anime storyline (or manga's) and nothing would change. The movie really was a cash grab. It was a time mover if you have nothing better to do, but isn't something to spend a whole lot of money on unless you wish to complete your BNHA collection. At least you can brag to any friends willing to listen that you have the copy that you probably won't watch ever again.

Overall [6]: I averaged it out to a 6. Like I said, the movie isn't BAD per say, but not a masterpiece you would want to watch over and over again. Hopefully the next movie they're spawning out at the time I've written this review fix the mistakes this movie made into making something far better than what was given.

I have to say that while the movie was slowly building up to something potentially really good, around the 70% mark, when the villain motivations were revealed, it REALLY dropped the ball. There were a lot of scientists who were doing some kind of good/gray area things with very dumb methods. On top of that most of the heroes powers are de-powered in very obvious ways. Most notably, Deku.
All that said, all the of new characters were enjoyable and added some much needed lore to the series, like the crime rates in other countries and how All Might is seen outside of Japan. Also ... it addressed that science is indeed not being left behind at all by all the quirk powered people. Yes, it was acknowledged in the series before, but not by adult scientists.
Though not having any new heroes introduced in such a locations sounds very bizarre, it was probably for the best that they focused on partner fights with the UA students for the whole movie rather than introduce heroes we'd never see ever again.
The setting however was heavily under-utilized. They barely talked about it, including what country owns it...Also apparently it is entirely policed by robots, which I don't think have ever been mentioned as existing in the series ever before.
The music was reused from previous seasons so it didn't really stick out and the art was perhaps a bit weaker than the normal seasons as well.
Also the bit where they showed All Might when he was young should've been more important, or better yet the whole plot of the movie.
Overall, it had a lot of potential and had some really solid momentum for most of the movie, but a soon as villain motivations were mentioned the whole premise of the movie kind of stopped everything in its tracks. That's just my initial impression, after the movie ended I started finding a plot whole or two with the villains as well. They didn't need to be complex, which they weren't, but even with simple motivations and a mostly simple villainous plan, the movie still failed to keep the villains anywhere close to believable.

The movie feels more like an OVA without episode cuts, or like an arc the show could have taken but didn't. It felt like this to me because the animation was pretty identical to the show, and they even had some call backs to earlier episodes and stuff. It doesn't really live in it's own bubble, and heavily relies on the audience coming in beforehand knowing the characters and stuff, which is odd, because of how many call backs there are to the show?

Anyway, the plot is pretty weak, you can kind of just get the vibe of how things are going to turn ... out within the first 15 minutes. So it kind of slogs on until it gets to where you think it's going to go.

Honestly, while the rest of the movie is really vanilla and boring, I was legitimately surprised at the ending? And for what it's worth, I think the slog is totally worth it, just to watch that final sequence play out again. Incredible stuff. I'll remember that for awhile. But the rest of the movie: totally forgettable. Final sequence? Amazing. Just what I wanted to see in the movie. Just kind of sucks it takes 60 minutes to get to that point.

I think this could be a lot more fun in a theater with a rowdy, Rocky IV like audience full of fans that would really get into it. It felt like the only part that really got away from the TV show's animation was in the ending, and it was all really fun then, but everything before had the same sort of plotting. The show has good characters, let them breathe and interact. Even an episode on Kaminari and Mineta waiting tables and a night on the town at I-Island sounds good to me. It does do a good job at getting to the main ... theme of the show, that even with superheroes, everything always needs to change and evolve over time, and trying to maintain something for just the sake of the status quo and feeling normal can be as unhelpful as anything else, something the Marvel movies have definitely not learned at all. It was pretty damn exposition heavy at the start too. Not bad for someone who's never seen this show before, but I think it could be too much for them too. It's focus on All Might and Midoriya as well as the new-and-totally-won't-be-forgotten-bc-this-isn't-canon characters call back the show's main dynamic without stepping on the show's toes. It's a good time all said and done.

Eh, it was alright. The beginning was kind of boring, but once more of class 1-A started showing up the character dynamics that've been established throughout the show were able to make it a little more interesting. The plot itself was pretty simple and easy to follow with not a lot of thematic weight. The final battle was a pretty fun spectacle, though the whole metal structure that the villain created felt too busy, distracting from the rest of the fight sequence. There was just too much detail to look at, taking your eyes away from the main focus. That said, the animation in that ... final fight scene is pretty great. Overall, kinda meh. I can't say I enjoyed every aspect of it. Definitely won't watch it again.

Bnha is my comfort show, I’ve loved it since the beginning, but I cannot express enough that I was disappointed that the franchise produced something of this quality. While the movie was enjoyable enough for me (citing my bias above), I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. If you’re a fan of the show looking to enjoy offshoots of the series expecting the same like-ability, skip this one!

Reason #1: The Animation. Oh god, the animation. While it definitely had a few great shots, overall it was poor. Long clips looked like they should have been single frames.

Reason #2: The Story. It’s predictable, but for me ... personally I didn’t find it annoying enough to not be able to overlook it. Still I figured it was important to include.

Reason #3: The Pacing. This movie somehow managed to go at a snail’s pace for a hour and ten minutes and rush the ending? Everything felt completely off. It leaves you thinking, “wait, it’s over!?” in the worst way.

Reason #4: The Ending. Very rushed (reason #3) and throws a random, unneeded twist in that’s then completely useless and doesn’t effect anyone? It’s never addressed later. It also leaves you with numerous plot holes that give you headache thinking about.

At the end I was left smiling because it was a movie with my favorite characters, but that doesn’t mean it was actually deserves my props. I wish I could say it was better and give it more love, but I honestly can’t.

If you're a fan of the franchise and have nothing else to watch, then you'll definitely enjoy this one (though I don't think it is worth your money).

STORY [5/10]:
The plot is pretty simple and straightforward. It was a classic hero movie which isn't really a bad thing because it was overall well-paced (and we finally see I-Island). It has a few nice plot twists (some were predictable, some were not as much), but the movie does rely on plot conveniences (Like, what are the chances that so many students from class 1-A have a ticket to I-Island?!).

ANIMATION [7/10]:
I don't know why some reviews say that ... the animation is bad because it really isn't that serious. I quite liked the art. Especially, the last fight was nicely done.

SOUND [5/10]:
Not memorable at all with a few old songs from the first two seasons. Nothing new and special, but definitely not bad.

CHARACTER [4/10]:
The movie brings back half of class 1-A and it was enjoyable to see them interact with each other, but it felt like they were only really there when their quirks were needed in fights. Though, it was nice seeing a bit more of All Might in his past.

ENJOYMENT [6/10]:
I never really have high expectations for a movie from a popular anime series. I did enjoy it, but it wasn't anything too exciting. So if you're a fan of MHA, then watch the movie and you will certainly have a good time.

If I had to describe the Hero Academia movie in one word it would be forced. This is established immediately after the opening fight scene which reminded me why I love this franchise, cause once that ends there’s a 30 minute exposition dump, explaining the basic premise of the show to any newcomer, what the deal is with all the new characters, what the deal is with this setting their all in, and, by far the most painful one to sit through, is why the film feels the need to explain why every character from the show is here.

Instead of doing the normal thing one ... would expect from a show in high school of having a school trip as an excuse to move the class to a new location, All might got invited to his super special awesome island and he was only able to take Midoriya and then once best girl is introduced, acting like a generic version of herself, we find out that the whole gang is here each with their own excuse…and nobody deciding to mention anything about it to anybody else…why?-

Ahh. The party is ruined because this guy turned up and he’s a really big meanie. You know this guy. He sure is a guy who’s doing a bad thing.

After sitting through all of this overexplained bullshit for half an hour we reach the actual plot of the movie. Climbing stairs.

After wasting another half-hour climbing stairs, we find out that the actual bad guy is the friend guy that you thought it was all along because you’ve seen like 3 spinoff movies to shounen anime before so obviously it was always going to be this guy and he has totally justifiable decisions or whatever and then the big bad guy continues to be a big bad guy and then all might shows up and the movie is saved from here on out.

You can probably tell by now that the plot of this movie sucks ginormo monster cock but the last fight. It’s fucking awesome. It’s a pity that I don’t care about the consequences of it because of the rest of the film.

6/10

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