Wednesday, February 19, 2020

NiNoKuni (2019) Movie is a Hard Skip

Today I decided to spend some time watching the new NiNoKuni (2019) film by OLM Studios. The film is inspired by the game series of the same name and it's clear that the script they used for the movie was the basics of a role playing game's plotline, but without the aspect that connect them together. Things just jump from one thing to the other in this movie.
My sister is a fan of the game series and I've always loved the music by Joe Hisaishi and I dig the bootleg Ghibli art style, but this film ended being downright abysmal. I'm lucky I watched it with my sister because otherwise it would have been a hard skip from the first 10 minutes onwards.

The story begins with a boy names Yu finding out that one of his friends, a girl named Kotona gets stabbed by a man with purple glowing eyes wearing a hoodie with a spider tattoo on it. The stabber escaped but Yu grabs the falling Kotona. The problem is that Yu is actually a cripple, a boy on a wheelchair. He decides to call for help but his best annoying friend Haru appears on the scene where Kotona is laying on the ground with Yu with a hole on her stomach.

Haru decides in the moment to get oddly angry at Yu and Haru grabs the girl with a knife poking on her chest and decides to run to a hospital by crossing a road with passing vehicles. Yu follows Haru with his wheelchair and three of them almost get hit by passing cars as they are in-between two buses or trucks or whatever. Next thing Yu notices is that he wakes up in another world with his friend Haru, but the stabbed girl Kotona is missing. The boys soon notice that Yu has gained some kind of superpower as he can walk and doesn't need a wheelchair in this other world.
The story is an "Isekai". School boys get thrown into another world. If you've seen Shield Hero you know what they gotta do here; get rid of the evil baddies that invade the Isekai city they appeared in.

That's pretty much the gist of it. This story is pretty garbage without any substance. The moment I saw Yu able to walk and without need for a wheelchair I knew the story was going to be garbage. I hate series that are far too idealistic. Samurai 8 by Masashi Kishimoto does this same garbage. There are bunch of series where a "loser IRL" character goes Isekai and turns overpowered. It's lame.
By the way I loved how JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8 by Hirohiko Araki handled this trope of turning a character that needs a wheelchair into a superhero story. No other story has managed to pull this trope off that well that I've seen.

Anyway. NiNoKuni (2019) had average animations, lazy and bland character designs, really bad characters, an average soundtrack, and a terrible plot with horrendous dialogue. The story is as basic as it gets and the ending tries to pull off a lazy, illogical plot twist that was just hilarious. Talking about funny aspects, me and my sister laughed so hard when one of the main antagonists revealed themselves - the guy revealed three identities.

This movie was so stupid it was funny. There was no passion put into anything in this movie - it's silly and manufactured. In the future there will be Artificial Intelligence bots capable of churning out series like this hundreds of times a day because the script and designs were so cheap and easy to copy with a slight color swap to change it up.

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