Story (2/10) Dreadful
The story in 3.33 is huh... well let's just say it's not as bad as the end of the original Evangelion where all that insane inside mentality montage of shinji's brain was played for us for a dreadfully long and confusing time to conclude it's story but this doesn't fall too far from the tree. The story does begin with a time-skip which in this case can be looked at as a bad thing seeing that the pacing of the first two movies in my opinion were quite well put together. So when you start off with a time-skip and FOURTEEN YEARS into the future it can raise a lot of questions. Yes we and Shinji our shitty MC has a lot of questions and guess what you ain't gettin none of them answered. For majority of the movie basically all we know is that how the end of the 2.22 end wit that climatic ending started a great impact which fucked up there home quite a lot. All Shinji was trying to do is save Rei and we find out that he failed.... miserably apparently and I think he died in the process? I'm not sure (like I said before they don't really explain anything) and I assume he is revived at the start of this movie where is former crew let's him kinda KINDA know what went down and that it is 14 years into the future. He get's pissed off that all of his questions aren't being answered, gets even more pissed when they tell him that there's nothing he can do about it (which if he couldn't do anything about it then why did they even revive him? why did it take 14 years? why this? why that? WHY WHY WHY? So many questions left unanswered or at least not explained well) and he gets even more pissed when his former crew basically ignores him and locks him away in this room with an explosive collar on him. Now I'm not defending Shinji (I hate him just as much as the next guy) but his crew I felt definitely handled this the wrong way because if you know Shinji by now his emotions will always get the best of him and when push came to shove (the eva bursting through his room to take him away) I'm not surprise he went full fuck-boi and ran off with them because 1) Shinji's he a emotion filled little cry baby (we all know this) and 2) His former crew were handling him like he is an animal (and rightfully so because he's a fuck-boi but that's besides the point they should have known that this is how he would have reacted or more these 14 years made them forget how much of a retard Shinji is..) anyway I'm not going to rant on anymore about how the plot for this movie was handled because that's just the icing on the cake I'm not going to get into the whole "I gotta pull out the two red spears even though everyone, my grandma and my gay lover boyfriend pilot is telling me not to do it" event. The story is Dreadful and I have no clue how part 4 is going to save this shit.
Art and Animation (10/10) Outstanding
The art style and animation is something that has always being straight up fire in these movies for Evangelion and regardless how you feel about the story, characters or anything else, you gotta be a blind retard to say this shit doesn't look outstanding.
Sound (10/10) Masterpiece
The music, sound effects and voice acting (English Dub to be exact) are all spot on nothing I found wrong in the section either. I do think that the Asuka voice actor (Tiffany Grant) did a phenomenal performance on Asuka she really gave it her all and I don't think I've heard Asuka ever sound better.
Characters (5/10) Mediocre
Well let's start off with what we (or I) already know, Shinji Ikari is by far on of the worst MCs I've ever encountered in anime and even though the first two movies I felt recover that this one brought it back to good ole fuck-boi Shinji. Asuka I was never a big fan of but I can't deny she was putting in work in this movie. Her attitude has not change which always bothered me about her, but it is what it is. Rei is a dead and bland character (as always) and she's probably more dead and bland than she was before because she can't even remember herself because she's yet another clone of the dead and bland version that we previously knew and in this movie she's vaguely figuring that out but I didn't care and I don't think anyone else did either, it wasn't really focused on and was just there for the sake of being there i guess. Kaworu Nagisa or Shinji's boyfriend as I call him wasn't that annoying I previously remembered him and it looked like he was onto something in this movie but it didn't matter either since that collar he took off of Shinji and put on himself (why? idk stop asking that question..) killed him off FOTNS style. Misato's character I enjoyed in the original adaptation but in 3.33 she is a former shell of herself she's way too uptight and we barely get to see her anyway. The way she handled the whole "Shinji we revived you but you ain't shit and if you try to be shit I'll detonate this collar and blow your head off, ooopps I waited too long to blow your head off cuz we outta range.." thing did not sit well with me. Shinji's father Gendou is apparently all behind this and is closed as ever "pilot the eva shinji!" and last but not least the only character I enjoyed seeing every time she graced the screen Mari Makinami. Mari Makinami is probably the reason why I'm not giving this section a 4/10 she is not only the comedic relief in this dreadful roster of uptight, confused, fuck-boi roster but she puts in work but also trolls the shit out of Asuka's bitch ass throughout the movie because she's Asuka's back-up support unit. I love Mari Makinami when she was introduced in the previous movie and I love her just as much in this one. She probably is the reason why my enjoyment (aside from the sound, art style and animation) is a a 7 and they also throw in some nice fan service here and there with her not enough to be annoying but here and there and when you catch it you like " O.o oh yeahhh".
Enjoyment (7/10) Good
Even though this movie was a hot mess in my opinion, I still enjoyed it for these reasons. In order
1) Mari Makinami
2) Art Style and Animation
3) Sound
Those three (or four what ever) alone kind of off set the dreadful story that this movie brought to the table. And I've already talked about each of those in previous sections so I should have to repeat myself on them.
Overall (6/10) Fair
More Specifically (6.80/10) Fair+
I gave 1.11 an 8.50/10 and 2.22 a 9.00/10. I couldn't find this 3.33 in English dub high quality any fucking where for the longest and it pissed me off because I really did like the two previous movies. So going into this movie yeah I was hyped. And it's sad to see that this movie (from a story standpoint) could not be as good as the previous two. I'll continue to keep up with this since there's only one movie left and who knows how fucking long that'll take before I get to watch that in English High Quality because it took me basically 3 years to finally get my hands on this. I can't bring myself to say this movie was a good movie, it was fair at best the story was way too confusing regardless how good the art style, animation and sound is. It's like having a super sexy bitch yeah that's cool and all but the downside is not only his she actually "a bitch" but she's a retard.. a confusing retard at that.. so 3.33 is basically a super sexy retard bitch.. good day
