The movie had some high levels of nonsense similiar to the tv show and it had also some very humorous scenes.
Those things seem like a good thing but in case of the nonsense stuff it is actually for the worse as there is almost no explaination behind all the weird stuff going on.
Lets start with the premise of the story, problems arise in the town while Ataru and the crew are filming some movie. The start of this movie seemed good, everything you would expect from the series. But then the story takes a drastic turn which in my opinion is for the worse.
This movie is clearly trying to be thought provoking and is not becoming a comedy movie but rather a philosophical movie in which the director tries to pass on a message to the viewers.
While you may think the second movie, Beautiful Dreamer, was also more of a philosophical movie rather than a comedy, then I would agree and disagree with you. The difference between those are clear from the way the movie tries to portray its message. Beautiful Dreamer actually provided enough information to the viewer to actually understand what was going on while Lum Forever keeps the viewer in the dark for the whole duration of this movie.
At the end of the movie I was confused as what the plot actually was. Why they didn't come up with some background story, no matter how ridiculous it could have been, which would act as the reason for all the weird stuff happening. From a certain scene in the movie you may come up with the reason for the left out plot, it is all McGuffins. In other words the plot is pointless, everyone who knows this franchise would already understand the movie that seeing the somewhat the same pointless storylines over and over again has no meaning. That was probably what the director was thinking, which is supported by the idea of the director to convey the message to the viewer.
This message being "Life's too precious to be wasted" meaning that the fans should not be fixated on this franchise and that they should move out, get some exposure to real life and simply get a life as the director stated in a interview. However this failed misserably as not everyone got the message. Which kind of makes sense considering the time this movie was aired and the kind of genre this franchise was known for. This movie simply didn't fit this franchise.
The animation was pretty good, as expected from a movie of this franchise. Some nice imagery was portrayed such as the moment they were filming to some of the dream scenes. The sound was also good, with the typical "Space is super weird" song playing at the end. Each one of the main cast had their nice moments to shine. I enjoyed this movie in a decent way but I expected something with a much better plot considering this movie was aired around the end of the series. Even though this movie suffered majorly from the way it tried to portray its message, it still has its own charm if you know the context this movie was made with its good intention behind the message to not be obsessed by something fictinional.
