I already knew this movie was gonna be bad going in. So I took the approach of 'Let's just relax with an hour of mediocre explosions and fun fights' attitude. And trust me, this was NOT what I got. So let's explain why:
There was no story. Nothing was resolved, there was never any tension and no character was interesting. They had a romantic subplot going on, but that was never resolved or given any depth. They had something going on with some Nazis, but again; no depth and resolve and no character development. But this is an action movie, you say. You are not watching for a deep or complex story, you are watching to see shit blow up.
This doesn't happen either.
The animation is atrocious. For a movie, especially one that's only an hour long you'd think there was at least something going on there, but no. There is surprisingly little movement and what little footage there is is reused several times in the movie. Some clips are shown three to four times throughout this very short motion picture. The animation is also done on threes. For anyone who doesn't know the in's and out's of animation that means that there is only animation on every third frame of twenty four, making this essentially animated at only eight frames per second, same as most TV animations. Movies are usually made at the full twenty four frames per second. The character designs are horribly bad as well.
Sound effects are ... fine, I guess, but only when they're there. They seem to be missing from a lot of places where they obviously should be. The dub is REALLY bad, though. Very few characters have any hint of emotion at all, and the ones who do don't have a major speaking role. I would still recommend the dub, though, since it fits with the tone and setting of the movie.
Oh god, the characters.
I am currently writing my own manga inspired comic, and the dialouge is really, really bad. But that's not my focus, and I'm only sixteen years old, writing in a foreign language. With that said, though, these characters are written so poorly, a delusional seven year old would have trouble thinking up so poor dialouge. It's probably the worst part of the entire movie, and that's saying a lot. None of the relationships feel genuine, none of the kids feel real and everything comes off as completely forced. In fact this is one of the few movies that can compete with The Room and Birdemic in terms of terrible dialouge and characters. YUCK.
With all that negative talk, though, in the end I'm still recommending this movie. But not as a fun action flick, because even the action sucks, not as a war drama(lol), but as a comedy. It falls in to the category of 'It's so bad, it's good' kinda movie. And as much as I cringed while watching this I was also laughing out loud, something I very rarely do while watching any movie.
As an action movie it gets a very bad 1/10
But as a comedy it can definitely work.
