As with live action shows it's not uncommon for anime TV shows to get turned into a movie what is unusual tho is when that TV show only lasted one single season and it still finds itself getting turned into a movie. Which is the case for this movie as it's based of off a TV show that only last one single TV season which does make it an odd choice to get a movie adaptation as it's not really a choice that people would think of for an anime to get a feature film adaptation and so then join me as I review the movie that's all about the making of an anime movie with the movie in question being called simply just "Shirobako: The Movie" enjoy.
The plot of this movie is sometime after there TV show was cancelled an animation studio has just ten months to fully produce an animated movie. 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 as it's a plot that does stick true to what the show was about whilst also updating it rather fittingly for the big screen but on the flip side of that is the fact that the episodes plot really does feel like the plot of an extended episode of the show and really nothing more then that as there's really nothing that screams big screen plot in this movie altho this movies plot is really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Juri Kimura as Aoi Miyamori , Mimuji and Roro and Haruka Yoshimura as Ema Yasuhara. Also starring in this film is Haruka Chisuga as Shizuka Sasaki , Asami Takano as Misa Tōdō , Hitomi Ōwada as Midori Imai , Ayane Sakura as Kaede Miyai , Masaya Matsukaze as Shun Watanabe , Nobuyuki Hiyama as Seiichi Kinoshita , Hironori Saitō as Hironori Madoka , Kenji Hamada as Masashi Yamada , Yuri Yamaoka as Erika Yano , Madoka Yonezawa as Sara Satō , Ikumi Hayama as Tsubaki Andō , Atsushi Tamaru as Kyuji Takahashi , Shinobu Matsumoto as Ryōsuke Endō , Junji Majima as Yūichirō Shimoyanagi , Kengo Takanashi as Yoshiki Sakura , Shizuka Itō as Chiemi Dōmoto and Eri Nakata , Mari Hino as Nao Shinkawa and Hiroko Tokiwa , Ai Kayano as Rinko Ogasawara , Manami Numakura as Yumi Iguchi , Kotomi Yamakawa as Misato Segawa , Shiori Izawa as Ai Kunogi , Motoi Koyanagi as Shigeru Sugie , Shūya Nishiji as Yutaka Honda , Hiroyuki Yoshino as Tarō Takanashi , Yūsuke Kobayashi as Daisuke Hiraoka , Mai Nakahara as Yuka Okitsu and Nobuyuki Kobushi as Gōtarō Katsuragi.
Now then interms of what Impersonally 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 personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. Which really isn't all that surprising as this film is using the same cast from the show and as such the cast would know what kind of performance wold best to suit there characters with all of the films cast really giving us the kind of performance that is best suited for a feature length film with the actors in this film really being helped by the fact that the films script is just so good with it being filled to the with good stuff in this very film that all this films cast have to do it simply just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them really naturually.
Doing the animation for this film is of course and the legends and the greats that are currently over at P.A. Works. 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 really good with this films animation being alot better then what it really had any right to be as nobody would have blamed the studio if they chose not to give us some good animation as the story itself is one that doesn't really lend itself to good animation and yet that's exactly what we got in this film in this film with all of the films backgrounds being insanely detailed and all of the characters having some really nice fluid movement to them.
To give you guys an idea of just how steeped in anime culture that this film is the makers of this film gave this film an anime TV style opening. Which was just so much fun t see as you could very easily see it as the opening to anime TV show as it hits all of the beats that you'd expect to see in an anime TV show opening including having the main character point at the sky with there mouth wide open for no reason which really just goes to show you that the makers of this film really do understand alot of anime culture as that is such a small detail that they didn't really have to put in this film and yet they included it anyway which was just a fun thing to see as it really was just a fun and funny part of this film.
The very idea behind this whole franchise is a really good idea as we the viewer never get an inside look of how our favorite movies and TV shows are made. Yes we'll get the odd behind the scenes the video released by whatever company is releasing something that week but that's really it and yet to see a movie detail how they make an animated movie was really interesting it's just a shame that the movie presents in a pleasant light when we know for a fact that animators in Japan are under paid and overworked and yet this movie doesn't touch on that which it really should have done as that could have made for an interesting part of the movie as making a fully animated movie in ten months when it usually takes anywhere between two to four years would really overwork the animators in this movie and yet the movie never touches upon it which is something that it really should have done as given the short time that the staff have to make a movie it would have been a very relevant to bring up and address in this movie as the film could have brought up some really organic drama and the film could have addressed something that alot of Japanese animators go through all the time and yet it really doesn't for no reason whatsoever.
One of the weakest things about this film was the fact that the film doesn't really build up it's dramatic plot points. With the characters always mentioning this show they had that failed and yet there's no build up to it it just comes out of nowhere and is implausible as having one TV show being cancelled isn't enough to almost bankrupt an animation studio you need a series of very bad business decisions for that to happen none of which appear in this film and later on in the film when they find out that the original producers of the film that there trying to make could sue them for some reason there's no build up to it as it just comes out of nowhere and is there just so the main character can have that forced moment where there meant to feel down before something perks them back up and that moment is just so incredibly forced in this film and it just doesn't work at all in the slightest which really shouldn't be the case as the idea is a very solid one and it's one that could have worked if it had been built up by having characters from the films original studio appear in this movie in a sort of antagonistic role in this film.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly two hours and eight seconds. Which is such a long running time for any film let alone an anime film to to have and while this film really does have more then enough there interms of pot to cover that really large amount of running tie this film really doesn't need to be that long as you very easily could have streamlined this films plot and got it's running time don to a more manageable running time which would have helped the film out quite alot as the film does get quite dull to watch around the half way point and very rarely if ever picks up steam again with this film not really having alot of padding but because it doesn't take the time to fully develop plot points to there fullest extent it really does make alot of this film not really worth watching but I will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it for the most part tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy 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 comedy that's actually featured /presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this film being alot funnier then what it really had any right to be as the film itself doesn't really lend itself to comedy and yet we get alot of really good jokes in this film from the various references to other anime , to the anime opening , to even the characters just having some really good banter with each other this film is filled to the brim with some really good jokes with alot of this films jokes feeling very characters driven and while there are some bad jokes in this film those don't represent the majority and are infact the minority as this films jokes are for the most part really funny in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this film was so much better then what it really had any right as be all means this film really shouldn't have been that good and yet we get a film that is shockingly good and is a must watch for any film or TV show fan that's interested in seeing in just how there favorite TV gets made as the very idea behind this film and the struggles behind that this films characters really go through could apply to any medium not just animation in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked abut all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are really in this very film in this very review and as such that means that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 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 Shirobako fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on Google Images are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.