JUJUTSU KAISEN 0
a review by hwroin
a review by hwroin
We start with Okkutsu Yuta being bullied by a gaggle of evil bullies who are just evil because ? anyways the bully just straight up threatens to kill a highschool student and because the main character is the main character in a shonen he has to have a powerful inner demon cheat code and brutalizes the cartoonishly villainous gang of ruffians. THEY ARE LITERALLY PIECED UP AND SHOVED INTO A LOCKER AND YET THE MOVIE INSISTED THEY LIVED??? And why didn't Rika (Kurama) stop the bullying earlier? Was Okkutsu stopping her somehow? Or maybe Rika realised that they needed this prequel movie to be made...
So yeah we basically get introduced to the virgin Itadori and he starts JJ Tech with his new class of the Panda, the mouth guy and Maki. Obviously, they don't get along because we need blatant and obvious internal group conflict before we realise the friends we made along the way. The characters are just about the same as they were in the main series
Maki is the tsundere "B-Baka! Yuta!", Mouth guy says funny ingredient and Panda is the Panda. Oh and Gojo (he's carrying in this movie). I don't really have a problem with these characters.
Yuta is the one I have the main issue with.
He's your typical "Don't hurt my friends or I'll go beastmode!" and when he does go beastmode he pulls the absolute most dogshit abilities from thin air. The movie will tell you "This ability is one only few people can use and it's the most difficult thing to master ever" and then Yuta will come along and perform it with literally 0 effort. He does this in the movie and I was like "Where when and how the fuck did he learn this?" I don't know. He just did. It's not just the fact that he can (when he shouldn't) but that they don't show us that he might've came to learn or realise he can throughout the movie. He just does it out-of-pocket and we're just forced to accept that he can do it with no prior knowledge. It's just feels weird, contrived and jarring.
Yuta feels like the epitome of a self-insert "Loser but secretly badass" character and it feels so weird and jarring when he's compassionate and kind throughout the entire movie but then just starts going crazy when his friends get hurt like "the version of you in your head when some conflict occurs". The fact that he can go toe-to-toe in combat against one of the most powerful sorcerers and come out with a few scratches is just absolute bollocks and only happens because "YOU HURT MY FRIENDS!!". He's the most bland and boring character and he's the main one... "I want to save everyone! I want to save my friends! Power of friendship!!!" Like just shut the fuck up god damn.
And at the end of the movie they just casually drop "you are the chose one" type shit. Like, sure i guess... the movie is literally fucking ending but thanks for telling me. Like this thought this would make it better that he can pull off random OP abilities.
His relationship with Rika is so forced and they pile-drive you with the sad backstory in this movie so hard. We don't know anything about Rika besides she just loves Yuta because he played with her at the fucking playground. This child literally HAS A RING from who knows where and fully gets engaged to Yuta. Bitch you are 5. And the same day she proposes and then gets her fucking head run over (lmao) to force the Okkutsu Yuta to have tragic anime character backstory. There is literally 0 romance besides Rika being held on this plane of existence by Yuta's strong copium energy and repeating "DAISUKI YUTAA!!!!!" and at the end performing a random "Power of love" energy beam.
Not even gonna argue coz its good. It fucking better be (I paid 15euro). They fixed the problems I had in the movie with the bad CGI backgrounds and compositing and colour grading and direction. Basically everything was fixed. YES FULL POINTS 10/10 STUDIO MAPPU ! Around here we let the animation do the heavy lift- oh wait thats UFOtable...
A lot of tension is lost in this movie because we know that at the end of the day it's all going to be fine. We get a scene where Maki, Mouth and Panda are all severely fucked up and they really try to hammer it in that this is a dire moment for these characters. I'm like bruh they are literally alive in the series. Like is this movie trying to gaslight me? Or maybe when Geto is like "I'm gonna invade Tokyo and kill lots of people mwuhahahaha" and we know it's just not happening at all because its never mentioned at all.
Now this is usually alleviated if the movie can give us an interesting story on HOW this things were prevented, but its just "We beat them up lol".
Fr? Carried by animation.
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