Okay, okay, Fairy Tail isn't that bad, put down your pitchforks. Fairy Tail is just an easy punching bag for being just a generic shounen fantasy that just keeps repeating the same story beats with different characters over and over again. So why watch an anime movie, which you know is just going to be filler, for a show that already feels like filler in the cannon material? I don't know the fight scenes are cool I guess?
I watched this coming straight off the end of 2014 Fairy Tail, which ended with the Zero Arc. I also watched some OVA's in that break, so basically this was the big return for a lot of these characters for me, as I hadn't seen them on screen in a while. I hadn't started the Final season of the main show yet, so this movie actually had some spoilers for where characters ended up after the time-skip. If you're planning on watching this, wait until you've seen a dozen or so episodes of Final Season first I guess. Not that I think spoilers matter much in a show like this. Did anyone really think Gray had turned evil?
There's a sort of comfort in the simple predictable plots of Fairy Tail stories. That combined with knowing how anime movie plots usually go helps you be able to predict what's going to happen fairly early on. I'll admit I didn't see the twist villain coming, but it wasn't like "OMG this changes everything!" The end also weirdly foreshadows stuff from the next cannon arc, so I'm not 100% on whether this movie is supposed to be cannon or if it's just the power of merchandising. Every anime movie needs a mcguffin that powers up the hero to a new, one-time use form or one-time upgraded version of their normal finishing move.
Anyway, nothing special here. 7/10
