mythologicallyrated Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl
What is this low budget powerpoint presentation with an incoherent plot? Seriously, besides sound, what redeemable aspect is there here?
I'm not even really sure why I watched this; I knew it would be completely terrible. After the shameless plagiarism, non-existent characterization, and bizarre pseudoscience of the parent show, literally no one with any shred of self-respect or decency wanted a sequel. Yet here it is, and it's somehow exponentially worse than its already terrible prequel.
Let's start off with characters, shall we? The focus character of this movie is nobody's favorite character, Mai Sakurajima But She Doesn't Have a Rabbit Hair Clip. Seriously though, they just recycled Mai's character design for Makinohara's grown-up version. Nice!
In terms of characterization, there's not much to say. None of the characters even remotely resemble real humans. They're completely contrived to do whatever is needed to progress the plot. Nothing they do is based on human emotion, and rarely is it ever based on rationality. Although this was a problem in the original show, it's even worse in the movie; none of the characters have any defining character traits whatsoever. Mai really likes Sakuta, Sakuta really likes making sex jokes that no one above the age of 11 finds funny, and that's about it. Instead of giving the characters any sort of personality, hack faux-author Hajime Kamoshida instead decides to have them break down into tears every 4 minutes, because crying is sad, and sad is good. Clearly, he's learning from other successful faux-authors like Makoto Shinkai.
The plot is fucking terrible. Like, who came up with this? Did someone just go, "Hey, you know how Steins;Gate is super successful? What if we just completely ripped off the end of Steins;Gate, except instead of Sci-Fi we just explain it away with a bullshit surface-level interpretation of quantum mechanics?" Time travel isn't something I'd usually complain about since shows usually don't try to explain it with actual science. As with all the scientific explanations of the parent show, Futaba gives you some sort of vague bullshit, and you have to accept it because the author said so.
Moving away from the science aspect, the movie's plot completely falls apart due to abhorrent execution. There's no transitioning between scenes; there's no flow. Things just kinda happen. It's already impossible to be emotionally invested in this pathetically written tearjerker due to how horribly characterized the characters are, but this makes it even worse. The plot follows a fairly simple time-travel formula: nothing happens for the entire first half of the movie, some really bad thing happens out of nowhere, and now the MC has to undo the bad thing. There's nothing interesting about it. The hugely shocking scene about halfway into the movie is just dropped onto you out of nowhere, and literally only serves as a plot device for the MC to realize that his previous attitude was wrong (I'm keeping this in vague terms to avoid spoilers). Despite all of its flaws, with decent execution, the plot could be alright at best. Unfortunately, considering that this movie literally has the flow of a powerpoint presentation, the execution is far, far below decent.
The complete lack of competent pacing makes the already confusing plot even more difficult to follow. Think about what Steins;Gate would've been like if all the worldline stuff wasn't properly explained. You'd have no idea what's going on, right? That's exactly how it feels to watch this entire movie. "Oh, this is happening because of puberty syndrome" is pretty much the only explanation you're ever given. These aren't just the ramblings of someone who hates the franchise; two of my friends, who both enjoyed the movie a good amount, both admitted they had no clue what was happening. There are also like 4 threads asking for explanations about the plot/ending in the movie's forum section.
The art is pretty much the same as the parent show, meaning that it still isn't good. The throw-up-in-your-mouth CGI crowds are also still here, which is really nice. The OST is unmemorable; the voice acting is pretty good.
Overall, barring episode 7 of Babylon, this movie was the least enjoyable experience of my entire life. The entire 90 minutes of this abhorrently paced, incoherent, and ugly insult to cinematography evoked in me not even a single emotion. Even KimiSui was sadder than this disgrace to Japanese cartoons.
I'm not even really sure why I watched this; I knew it would be completely terrible. After the shameless plagiarism, non-existent characterization, and bizarre pseudoscience of the parent show, literally no one with any shred of self-respect or decency wanted a sequel. Yet here it is, and it's somehow exponentially worse than its already terrible prequel.
Let's start off with characters, shall we? The focus character of this movie is nobody's favorite character, Mai Sakurajima But She Doesn't Have a Rabbit Hair Clip. Seriously though, they just recycled Mai's character design for Makinohara's grown-up version. Nice!
In terms of characterization, there's not much to say. None of the characters even remotely resemble real humans. They're completely contrived to do whatever is needed to progress the plot. Nothing they do is based on human emotion, and rarely is it ever based on rationality. Although this was a problem in the original show, it's even worse in the movie; none of the characters have any defining character traits whatsoever. Mai really likes Sakuta, Sakuta really likes making sex jokes that no one above the age of 11 finds funny, and that's about it. Instead of giving the characters any sort of personality, hack faux-author Hajime Kamoshida instead decides to have them break down into tears every 4 minutes, because crying is sad, and sad is good. Clearly, he's learning from other successful faux-authors like Makoto Shinkai.
The plot is fucking terrible. Like, who came up with this? Did someone just go, "Hey, you know how Steins;Gate is super successful? What if we just completely ripped off the end of Steins;Gate, except instead of Sci-Fi we just explain it away with a bullshit surface-level interpretation of quantum mechanics?" Time travel isn't something I'd usually complain about since shows usually don't try to explain it with actual science. As with all the scientific explanations of the parent show, Futaba gives you some sort of vague bullshit, and you have to accept it because the author said so.
Moving away from the science aspect, the movie's plot completely falls apart due to abhorrent execution. There's no transitioning between scenes; there's no flow. Things just kinda happen. It's already impossible to be emotionally invested in this pathetically written tearjerker due to how horribly characterized the characters are, but this makes it even worse. The plot follows a fairly simple time-travel formula: nothing happens for the entire first half of the movie, some really bad thing happens out of nowhere, and now the MC has to undo the bad thing. There's nothing interesting about it. The hugely shocking scene about halfway into the movie is just dropped onto you out of nowhere, and literally only serves as a plot device for the MC to realize that his previous attitude was wrong (I'm keeping this in vague terms to avoid spoilers). Despite all of its flaws, with decent execution, the plot could be alright at best. Unfortunately, considering that this movie literally has the flow of a powerpoint presentation, the execution is far, far below decent.
The complete lack of competent pacing makes the already confusing plot even more difficult to follow. Think about what Steins;Gate would've been like if all the worldline stuff wasn't properly explained. You'd have no idea what's going on, right? That's exactly how it feels to watch this entire movie. "Oh, this is happening because of puberty syndrome" is pretty much the only explanation you're ever given. These aren't just the ramblings of someone who hates the franchise; two of my friends, who both enjoyed the movie a good amount, both admitted they had no clue what was happening. There are also like 4 threads asking for explanations about the plot/ending in the movie's forum section.
The art is pretty much the same as the parent show, meaning that it still isn't good. The throw-up-in-your-mouth CGI crowds are also still here, which is really nice. The OST is unmemorable; the voice acting is pretty good.
Overall, barring episode 7 of Babylon, this movie was the least enjoyable experience of my entire life. The entire 90 minutes of this abhorrently paced, incoherent, and ugly insult to cinematography evoked in me not even a single emotion. Even KimiSui was sadder than this disgrace to Japanese cartoons.
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