With there being an anime for every single person out there it means that alot of people are going to find something that they like. Well with video game movies now actually being good in America you'd be forgiven for not knowing or just straight up forgetting about the fact that Japan has been adapting video games for decades now and well I thought tat i'd take a look at a video game movie and so then join me as I review the move that is a sequel to video game with the film in question being called simply just "NiNoKuni" enjoy.
The plot of this film is when a boy and his friend find themselves transported to another world they find themselves caught up in a war between the kingdoms rulers and a bunch of rebels who want to overthrow the kingdoms king. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad but that's also the issue as this films plot isn't really that good either as the films plot isn't really as fully developed as it really should have been and instead comes across as being a bad anime fan fiction and really nothing all the more then that really with this films plot not really being all that entertaining or really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Max Mittelman as Yū , Alejandro Saab as Haru and Abby Trott as Kotona / Princess Astrid. Also starring in this film is Erica Lindbeck as Saki / Bertha , Robbie Daymond as Gnauss Wissden , Armen Taylor as Galeroth , Patrick Seitz as Barton , Kyle McCarley as Dandy , John Snyder as King Astrum and Resident Evil: Vendetta and Naruto Shippuden star John DeMita as The Old Man.
Now then interms if what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presneted to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. Altho it's not as good as it really should have been as we know from previous animated projects that this films cast can indeed turn in some really good performances when they really want to and yet for some strange reason they just don't manage to that in this film with alot of this films really OK at best acting stemming from the fact that this films script just isn't that good as it really doesn't give the cast a whole lot to work with interms of what there respective characters personalities are even meant to be and as such they just can't turn in that good of a performance as this films script just won't allow for it.
Doing the animation for this film is of course the legends and the greats that are currently over at OLM and OLM Digital. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as the film does have some really solid looking animation to it as the film does have the same look as Pokemon which does make sense given that the same animation also worked on that series as well but that's also the problem as that look and feel works for that show but it's not something that really works all that well for this film as the character designs while they look good just don't look like that they really belong in this film at all.
While this film is based of off the Ni No Kuni video game franchise is film is also a sequel to the 2018 video game Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom with this film taking place centuries after the events of Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. This might be the smartest move that the filmmakers could have made as the games aren't that really well known at least in terms of the main stream media with the film not really making the games look good as the film itself is just your stereotypical fantasy affair and it makes the games look like your stereotypical fantasy affair with the film not really doing a good job of advertising the games and making people want to play the video games both of which are things that a movies that's based off of a video game should do while we know that Japan can make good video games movies alot of which are produced by OLM it's therefor weird that that exact same studio would make a movie that doesn't make people want to play the games at all.
To give this film some credit it does some interesting ideas like the fact that you can only access this other world when your pretty much close to death is a really good idea. As is the fact that this other world can seemingly heal any issues that you have like broken bones and disabilities is a really good idea and it's a sign that there's a good script in there that's just trying to get out but all it needs is the right creative team to help, make that good script come out and help to make those good ideas come out and yet for some reason everything on this film from a creative level just aren't the right team to bring this film to life this is really something that shouldn't be the case as on paper this film should've been really good as the film had the games original creator Akihiro Hino writing the script for and producing this movie and as such if there's anyone who knows this game really well it's him and yet he just can't bring out that good script.
This film feels like that it was made for the fans when that really shouldn't be the case as the games aren't that really well known in the grand scheme of things. Yes there is an argument that the games are really well known and as such there making it like that to please those fans but when your making a movie you have to make it for the largest audience possible and alot of people don't know that this movie was based of off a video game which means that they really shouldn't have made this film for the fans as it really should've been made for the general audience and if the film did make this film for a more general audience then it would open up the games as well as people could then be really more interested in playing the games if they liked the film just like if they really liked the games then chances are that there going to be watching this film.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty six minuets and fifty eight seconds. Which is such a long time for this film to have as when you really get right down to it that the film really doesn't have alot of plot their to cover that large amount of running time and yet even with this large amount of running time the film doesn't use it develop it's main characters with all of it's characters coming across as being rather underdeveloped which would make sense if this movie was based off of a TV series but it's not and because of that the film needs to take the time to fully develop it's characters as then we can care for them and want to see them succeed but as the film doesn't do that we instead get scenes with pointless drama that add nothing to overall plot of the film but I will admit that this film really does have some fairly solid pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is an action film that means that I have actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this films animation really shining during the films many action scenes which is to be expected as this is something that seems to happen quite alot with alot of Japanese anime with the film also having some really good action scenes that are really exciting to see in the film with this films action scenes also doing a good job of advancing what little arc the characters are forced to go through as well and are filled to the brim with alot of really cool moments as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this film really isn't a hidden masterpiece if a film nor is it a film that's that bad as it's instead that has all of the potential to be good and yet for one reason or another it's just not as good as it perhaps could have been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Ni No Kuni fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot of the images that are on Google Images are all really fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.