Reviews

As you know, this movie is technically a shrunken version of the approximatively 47 episodes that Clannad has. Well… it is too short. There is NO WAY in which a two-hour movie can express the same emotion as 47 episodes worth of story, in my opinion. I didn't quite enjoy it, since most of the dramatic tension is elliminated, but it was well-done for what it is, except for the fact that it fells a bit rushed.
Another thing that I do not agree with would be that of removing and/or changing the main symbol of the story, which was used to tell an important lesson. Through the lost girl, there was a lesson taught, that of being able to find your own happiness in a world that makes you feel dead and meaningless. By replacing it and cutting the part of the TV show which showed the two main routes of the story, the emotional impact is not the same, and neither is the lesson told. The movie feels a bit… incomplete.
EVEN SO, the movie is good for someone who doesn't have time to watch the whole series. It shows the focus points of the base material's story, removing the useless arcs (routes from the original visual novel), for example the Fuuko Arc, which didn't affect the final story whatsoever. By doing this, the studio managed to cover the entire series in two hours.