Aug 21, 2012
I cried my heart out watching the Clannad Season 1 & 2 series. I loved it a lot. Going into the movie, I had to keep myself from expecting too much because afterall, it's going to be heavily condensed.
The movie seemed to have a lot of potential for what it's worth. It's a different interpretation of the story so it keeps things fresh for veteran followers. I like the fact that most of the characters retain their personalities, except Nagisa. Nagisa is a bit more assertive in the movie. She has a stronger will compared to her series counterpart therefore did not require much
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advice from Tomoya. I didn't have a problem with this, it helps speed things up a lot.
However, the movie took it's sweet time to build up the meeting between Tomoya and Nagisa for the first half of the movie. Then comes the second half, the story spiraled down the hill faster than the speed of light. The pacing shift so suddenly that you're just gonna be like "Well... that was a huge time skip...." It's like it was trying to sum up more than 60% of the story in the last 45 minutes while utilizing tiny flashbacks to patch the gaps.
The movie tried to be slick by revealing a glimpse of the future in the beginning of the movie, but it didn't work as well as it intended because it just felt so out of place and nothing else in the movie helped support it other than the obvious eventual happenings of the events.
Lastly, I know I'm being too nit-picky but I was too bothered by the different voice actor for Okazaki. I know this movie came out first and all, but hearing Okazaki's voice for 46 eps and then watching the movie threw me off a lot of the times. All the characters were voiced by their respective VAs except Tomoya. Harsh truth, but it was kinda hard to enjoy because of that. Had it been the minor characters, EVEN SUNOHARA, that had different VAs, I would have been okay with it.
Overall, it was still a decent watch. I wouldn't pass this up since I'm a big fan of Clannad. Like I said, the different interpretation keeps it fresh so you will be going into the movie with similar characters but coming out with different feelings and outcomes.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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