Precure Miracle Universe Movie

Ichika, Hana, and Hikaru are all in the same seventy minute movie. That'll be good enough for some of you and was good enough for me. This movie isn't much different than a three-parter from the main Star Twinkle series, except it has better production quality and a few cures floating around from previous series. If you're enjoying the Star Twinkle series I don't see any reason why you wouldn't enjoy this movie. The fight scenes are really well animated relative to the series and you get some good character interactions out of it. The only thing that would have made it better is if ... based Kappard showed up.

Unfortunately I didn't have a twinkle stick so I had to use a flashlight when cheering on the Precure while watching. You could probably use a lighter or a glow wand too if you don't have a flashlight lying around. I'm sure your feelings will reach the Precure.

Why did I watch this again?

Oh right, I was watching Star Twinkle and decided to watch the crossover at the appropriate point. That was rather stupid of me.

It's just . . . not a good movie. The character moments hard carry this movie that otherwise is not that great. The action (i.e. the main reason people watch PreCure movies) starts out okay but becomes severely subpar in the final quarter, the story has a few utterly idiotic moments, and to balance out the good moments with three consecutive series' pairs of lesbians, there are Annoying Duck Times in which the movie-exclusive character does absolutely nothing ... and still winds up being the subject of focus.

Don't watch it. You're wasting your time.

I missed the Hug tto! cures, so seeing them again is an obvious plus. The best part of the movie would be when they're on the volcano planet, when Ruru kicks Harry. The worst part... the entire third act, especially after the whole surprise-twist-villain-with-no-foreshadowing (an inane trope that I could do without). The main thing carrying this movie, preventing it from being a complete dumpster fire, are the cures themselves and all their character interactions – which is to be expected because Precure generally has a good track record in that area (except Dokidoki) – but as previously evidenced in Haru no Carnival, that isn't ... enough to save a movie that absolutely fails miserably in every other way. Now, this isn't 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 bad, at least, but it's definitely one of the weaker Precure crossovers. On the bright side, we do get some great lesbian moments with Cure Macaron and Cure Chocolat...