Anime fans it's been a long time since i've last spoken about an anime and well as luck would have it there just so happened to be a new two part anime film out this week on Netflix. I want it known right now at the start of this review that just because i'm reviewing part 1 of this film doesn't necessarily mean that i'll watch and review part 2 since yeah this film really didn't make me want to watch part 2 and so join me as I review the film that is actually the first sailor Moon feature length film to be released to Japanese theatres in twenty six years with the film in question being called simply just "Sailor Moon Eternal Part 1" enjoy.
The plot of this film is an evil circus has come to town with all of the circus acts turning peoples dreams into nightmares and so it's up the Sailor Scouts / Sailor Guardians to stop the evil circus before the evil circus takes over the world. In terms of what I personally thought about the plot of this film in all honesty I thought the plot of this film was pretty decent but at the same time it was hard to make out what the actual plot of the film was since the actual plot of this film is so weak that at times it straight up disappears from the movie and not helping things is the fact that the plot really just feels like something that you'd see in an episode of the show and not something that you'd want to see in a full length theatrically released Sailor Moon movie.
Starring in this film is Amanda C. Miller as Makoto Kino / Sailor Jupiter and Cherami Leigh as Minako Aino / Sailor Venus. Also starring in this film is Cristina Vee as Rei Hino / Sailor Mars , Kate Higgins as Ami Mizuno / Sailor Mercury , Robbie Daymond as Mamoru Chiba / Tuxedo Mask , Sandy Fox as Chibiusa Tsukino / Sailor Chibi Moon , Stephanie Sheh as Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon , John Eric Bentley as Tiger's Eye , Johnny Yong Bosch as Artemis , Kelly Baskin as Deimos , Kelly Baskin as Deimos and Debi Derryberry as Diana.
As you can no doubt work out by who I have listed as starring in this film and from the actual title of this review I will be basing this review of the dubbed version of this film and so in terms of what I thought about the acting that's featured / presented to us in this film in all honesty the acting that's featured / presented to us in this film isn't that bad. Since alot of the actors that are starring in this film are reprising their roles from I believe the Viz Media dub of Sailor Moon and so the actors know what performance would best suit / fit their character and it really does help that the actors that are starring in this film are generally really good actors and are generally really good voice actors.
Doing the animation for both parts of this two part film are Studio DEEN and Toei Animation and well I honestly did like the animation in this film. Since for me at least in this film visually looked like that it was a huge step up in quality form the animation that we saw in Sailor Moon Crystal and for me to say that is truly shocking because the animation that was featured / presented to us in Sailor Moon Crystal was already really freaking good and so for this movie to have higher quality animation really is a good thing in my opinion any ways / at least.
Now then this film and part 2 of this film are the basically the fourth season of Sailor Moon Crystal which honestly does somewhat explain one of the major issues that I have with this film but i'll get into that later on in this very review. I can honestly see why they wanted to adapt Sailor Moon Crystal for a feature length film since Sailor Moon Crystal was from what I can remember at least a really good show but just because the show itself was good doesn't mean that the movie adaptation of the show is good and sadly this film in my opinion anyways / at least isn't that freaking good but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.
I will give this film this it does a good job of making what could be very annoying characters seem somehow actually likeable. Since characters like Chibiusa or even Usagi Tsukino AKA Sailor Moon herself could be very annoying characters if they are in the wrong hands however here I felt that the characters in this film were really written even if you could see each plot point for each respective character coming a mile away.
The tricky task with any TV show that's being turned into a film is that the film adaptation of the TV show has to not feel like an extended episode of the show and that's sadly something is an issue with this film. Since this film really does feel like an extended episode of Sailor Moon Crystal since this film plot points for each characters seemingly every twenty minuets or so all the while falling into the exact same pitfalls that alot of if not all two part films fall into since this film is basically a feature length trailer for part 2.
This film has a total running time of one hour and twenty one minuets and twenty three seconds and trust me when I tell you that you feel every second of it. Since even tho the pacing of this film is fine with scenes not lasting any longer then they need to what makes this film boring is the repetitive nature of the film's plot and as such I do very strongly feel that if this film had a less repetitive plot then the film could have been very entertaining but as it is I personally found this film to be so freaking dull that it's unreal how dull this film actually was to me personally.
Now then boys and girls this film is listed on IMDB as being an action film and so that means that I have to talk about all of the action that's featured / resented to us in the actual film itself and well if i;;m being honest the comedy and the action that's featured / presented to us in this film are the most entertaining part of this film. Which really isn't saying much since most of this film is pretty freaking dull as a rock in my opinion anyways / at least and so having action that's very entertaining isn't going to be a high bar to reach but sadly there isn't enough action in this action film which is a shame because when we do get an action sequence it is very entertaining.
Overall this was honestly a pretty film in my opinion anyways but at the same time i can see die hard Sailor Moon or even die hard Sailor Moon Crystal fans enjoying this movie but tho just due to how bad I thought that this film was i'm not going to be checking out Part 2. Now then since i've talked about both of the good and as well as both of the bad things that are in this film in this very review that means that this film gets a score of a 5 out of 10 from me.
As for where I got all of the images that I used in this very review well then boys and girls and ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page , the official Sailor Moon fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personal preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images just simply due / down to the fact that Google Images has alot of images from this film and alot of the images that are on Google Images are fairly high quality and as well as being fairly high definition.
