So for all the people who enjoyed the anime, this is for you!!
The movie is over 1:40 h in length, through most of the movie Kirito will be narrating to a guy (that lets just say will have a important role in the season 2), some of his past life experience into SAO and ALO, being the other important stuff remenbered by his friends that are close by on a swinning pool (that is how I can put it, watch it for yourself, and you wont complain about it), with the later part of the movie consisting of new scenes that take kirito and the gang into a adventure quest underwater on ALO.
I saw the anime almost one year ago, and so reliving some of the most epic and strong scenes of the anime, in less than 1:20, it was good, it wasn't boring and it was nicely done, with the later part of the underwater quest being a fitting ending to the finish the story for now, and to make the fans relieve the experience they had with SAO, to pump them to SAO second season, Gun Gale Online!! Which will be awesome too!!!
But going for what is important, story was FAIR, you already saw most of it before plus you get some new scenes, the art is very good, again not as good as the original since most is off the anime, same for the sound which I already loved off the first season! Character wise, not much development obviously, you get to see some new stuff about the characters, and itself you dont regret it at all, it makes what it needs to, be decent.
For my personal experience, the movie, and being sincere, it isnt a worth go to a cinema to watch it, it is more like a summary of one of your favorite shows with some new scenes that airs on the TV and you had a good time with it, because you already enjoyed the show from before and knew the cast and previous stories, so it gave me a good time, and overall I reccomend it to every fan of the series, that pretends to go watching the second season, GGO arc and more...
And if like me you couldnt wait to dig in on the next season, I reccomend you to give it a try to SAO Light novel since Vol 5, and probably to Vol 8, which IMO is the best way to fully experience this tech universe of the future. Without further ado, hope I was informative enough.
See ya next time guys.
