Art - 9/10
Sound - 8/10
Character - 5/10
Enjoyment - 5/10
Overall - 5/10
This movie had been highly anticipated this year due to its stellar animation, and much more its stellar staff. If you think it'd meet the hype it built up, then you're pretty much setting yourself to be disappointed. Because, a short answer I can give is that this film was pretty mid.
Mild spoilers ahead...
An animated project that was fun to work on, I'm sure of. But, for it to be entertaining? It took itself too seriously at times. A pretty animated movie dialed down with a haphazard, sometimes generic / bland plot, and a romance and gimmick that were just as weak as the intentions behind it were.
The waifu that was supposedly marketing this film was also dull and flat. Empty, mind you. Which makes sense at times, but at most, the approach was terrible, or rather rushed.
Mamoru Hosoda's Belle, also, did the "my life is paralleled to a children's story" better with their depiction of The Beauty and the Beast. So yeah, that's that.
The only saving grace this movie had was in its stellar animation, which was, to say the least, worth having eyes for. The parkour competitions and the post-apocalyptic bubble-filled Tokyo were truly this film's memorable moments. And, honestly, if one were to turn their brain off watching this movie, I think they'll have a decent time. Not the best time, nor the "I had fun watching this" time, but you'll get something out of it, I'm sure.
My only desire is that they could've at least strengthened either one of their core narrative points, whether that was the romance, the lore of the bubbles, or the point of having a huge cast of parkour gangs. Because, those were all wasted to arrive at a somewhat decent ending
in an ample amount of screentime. *sigh*
