Koukyoushihen Eureka Seven: Pocket ga Niji de Ippai

Eureka Seven - good night, sleep tight, young lovers - 7/10

First an introduction to what I felt before understanding the idea of ​​the film.
well initially I was watching the movie as if it was something related to the original anime, I thought this movie would be like a summary of everything or a sequel after the end of Eureka SeveN. So taking this idea, I wasn't liking the movie, I was feeling terrible and rushed, presenting characters nothing to do and developing in a very crazy way the characters they had in the original work, the only thing I liked about this movie was the ... final scenes by Eureka and Renton and the closing song, which really is Eureka SeveN level, superb. However, before giving my grade, I read the reviews and realized my mistake. Eureka Seven - good night, sleep tight, young lovers is an alternate retelling of history, something like "what if?" "What if it had been that way?" "What if that was chosen instead?"... When I read the reviews, I immediately understood the idea of ​​the movie! Now the specifics:

Story-7/10; I gave it a 7 because I understood that even after understanding what the movie was about, it didn't have a premise as good as the original anime, and it wouldn't be able to develop as well as the tv anime because it's a movie. The movie was in between a lot of boring, boring parts and really cool and different parts with intriguing and amazing moments. The ending was something really different from the original, the Coda as a writer of a new destiny, a new quest for paradise was very good, and the final part of Renton and Eureka was beautiful, but they only focused on Renton in the end, it would be nice to have finished with the image of the two, but that is my preference, irrelevant.

Art-8/10; The film was really beautiful and optimized, I always thought the Eureka SeveN trait was something very beautiful and that matched the idea, the vibe of the story.

Sound-7/10; I'll be honest... I only gave this note because I loved the closing song with passion, SPACE ROCK reminded me, left me with nostalgia, better saying, so good for the original anime soundtrack, I still listen to STORYWRITER and SAKURA, songs that are really part of the Eureka SeveN vibe... But I missed the electronic music that was so striking, because the background music... I didn't even notice.

Characters-7/10; The reason for this note is that I missed the presence of some characters, I know they didn't appear because the story was totally different, but I could have at least mentioned them or shown them a little in situations that would make sense. I was very sad about Dominic and Anemone to some extent, but it made sense what happened to Dominic and Anemone in this movie. But the explanation of why the crew is different and why the main villain doesn't show up was pretty weird to me, but it was, in a way, satisfying for the sequel to the story, even though it was nothing to me.

enjoyment-7/10; watch this as if it were an alternate story, without much connection to the original story.
as I said before, I got the movie wrong and didn't enjoy it too much, but after realizing my mistake, I stopped to think and the movie makes sense for what it's proposed, after that I realized that I really enjoy certain parts of the movie. movie and some scenes that I didn't understand/had been furious for being rushed/different from the original, started to make sense, it was a good feeling to see this movie, but nothing much.

Well... this was something
This movie doesn't follow the original Eureka Seven story, it's a different timeline... maybe, it's not very clear, but it is implied that this is the same timeline since at one scene you see the moon with Eureka and Renton's names engraved on it from the last episode of the original series, so these aren't the same characters yet have similar traits and (somewhat) similar personalities, okay i can get behind that, but with not having the setup and character developments from the original series, you get a movie that tries to speedrun what could have been a 12 episode of an ... alternative story of the original series into a 2 hours movie, so these characters aren't very likeable, even thought the Gekkostate crew are the sympathetic evil characters in this timeline, i didn't care for them that much, and not to mention the story isn't very good, it feels at points like a fanfiction that got adapted into an anime.
They re-use a lot of animation from the original series, it comes off as lazy when you use them to tell a completely different story, but i didn't mind it as much since you can see it with full screen resolution here unlike in the original series, still very noticeable, the new animation is also good, this is an all around good looking movie.

Overall this movie is fine, if you want to see Eureka and Renton be cute together then you will enjoy it, but don't expect much as story.

'Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers' is truly abominable.
Mild spoilers ahead, although I recommend reading them even if (especially if) you haven't seen the movie yet.

I was very surprised to hear that this movie was directed by Tomoki Kyouda, who also directed the original series. While I was watching, I felt pretty safe in assuming this movie was made by someone who hated Kyouda's guts. Maybe he does?

The basic premise is that it's like an "Alternate universe retelling" of the story of Eureka Seven, which I presume is supposed to be Studio Bones' excuse for reusing cuts of animation from important moments in ... the original series. Not only were the creators of this movie content with attempting to ruin the legacy of indivudual cuts of animation, they also felt the need to screw with the characters, too.
The writing in this movie feels like Kyouda was feeding the script of Eureka Seven into a machine learning algorithm along with some of the lowest rated fanfiction he could find, which is the only reasonable explanation I can think of as to why most of the cast has an impossibly contrived backstory involving time travel and accelerated aging, just to explain why they look the exact same as they did in the main series, despite allegedly being completely new characters. This is made even worse by the faux-philosophical bullshit they come up with to try and justify it.

My initially high hopes for this movie were gradually worn down the longer I watched it, but the moment when two crew members of the Gekko (who, in the main series, were supportive figures for Renton and Eureka) pin Eureka down and attempt to remove her clothes to "check if she's an alien", any potential goodwill I might have had left towards this movie was gone. Not only is Eureka stripped of her identity and characterisation and reduced into a pale shadow of herself, she also is forced to feature in a thinly veiled "rape" scene. Fuck this movie.

The only worthwhile thing about this movie is a small handful of original cuts of animation, which I would recommend looking up online rather than watching this pitiful excuse for a movie.
Don't watch this, regardless of whether or not you've seen any other parts of the series.