I didn't know how to type this as a title without being very long winded, so appologies. What I am saying is that when a series is popular enough to get multiple movies, the first usualy are godawful to the point they can be unwatchable later.
First and most notable case is Pokemon, the First Movie, Mewtwo Strikes Back. Let's get beyond the fact that atleast 500 of the 600 pokemon episodes are the damn same, and the first movie's english script, message and music are awful at best and doesn't make sense to the franchise, it's still a pretty crappy movie in comparason to some of the later movies, even if they are nothing more than expanded episodes.
Reason? It's Mewtwo going wangsty for 90mins and magical pokemon tears. Let's not forget the "IT NEVA HAPPENED!!!" screwover end. Yeah, pokemon changed in Johto, for better or worse is divided, but atleast the movies got better plots than this, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 11 being notable.
While DBZ is a clunker with it's movies not fitting in the story at all, it suprisingly avoids this. It's second movie falls to this. But let's go back the where it started, Dragonball. Dragonball Curse of the Blood Rubies. It's horrid. Actualy worse than DBZ's The World's Strongest. But what makes it bad? Instead of being an original story, like everything else here, it's just a butchered Pilaf arc, minus Pilaf. Great movie there >_>
Then we have Bleach and Naruto, which fall into the same catagory. Theatrical Filler. No alt universe like DB/Z, no promotional tool like Pokemon, no where near as bad, well, Bleach anyway. I have yet to see Bleach 2 or 3, so someone can talk about them. But Naruto, dear god is the first one painful. It's too "real world"y, but with Ninjas, taking away some of the feel of the series, the new characters are unlikable and the movie is animated sedative. Then we go to 2 and 3, which while are also Theatrical Fillers, feel like Naruto, are decently entertaining and in 3, a decent story.
What I will say about Bleach Memories of Nobody is that it's not a bad movie, not anywere near as bad as Naruto 1, it's just quite boring. It's realy hard to sit through. But as bad as Naruto 1 is, nothing beats the english dub of Pokemon 1 in utter unadulterated garbage. |