...The dialogue was repetitive, and it was just the characters spouting off things they'd already said in a funnier context the first time (in the series), or delivering lines that... just sound like such stock lines. This is France and England. They will argue over everything in this movie, because France and England always argue, of course. Except when they don't. But they will in this movie. Over every sentence. All the time.
I mean, all the jokes were taken from the series, sure. That's annoying enough. They cranked this up by repeating the same joke multiple times within the movie, as if we had short term memory loss and would have forgotten its last usage by the time they repeated it.
"Okay, I'm the hero. You'll be my backup."
"You'll be my backup."
"You'll be my backup."
The repetitive footage drove me insane. Here is America watching his national monument being turned to white gloop, here is England doing the same, here is Russia doing the same, etc, etc, etc. We've got eight main characters, so we can fill up time by showing them doing the same things!
Seems to a few similarities between this and Himaruya's Christmas 2010, with Himaruya doing things better imho... Canada and Cuba teaming up to figure out what was going on and help with the situation was done particularly better in that strip. Sealand being badass was done in both. Other things, but the whole crisis is just done better, because there was actually kind of a sense of 'oh no, what's happening' and characters giving a damn about each other. In the movie, we see a bunch of countries turned to white gloopy aliens and NOBODY seems to care! Veneziano does not care his brother turned into a white gloopy alien thing! The hero in Christmas 2010 was better, too. This is because in the movie the hero is, of course, Italy. Who could've guessed the hero would be Italy.
Could just be me, though.
Also, I've known for months that Prussia wouldn't play a big part in the movie, but what is with all that promotional material for the movie featuring Prussia? He also sings the movie's main theme, and when you click for information on the movie on the main site he's the character who pops up. I guess it was impossible for him to show up much, because they didn't have much to recycle from him at the time.
One thing I did like was how they would give us a few seconds of each character to truly give us deep insight into each nation and their reactions to an international crisis, and remind us some countries exist beyond the eight main ones. Then they are no longer needed in the film. Fantastic idea.
Canada: (Dare?) I'm Canada da yo, something about being unnoticed.
Ukraine: I'm the Ukraine and I have large tracts of land. Boing.
Belarus: Psychotic incestuous love, etc.
Finland: (in a Santa outfit) something about Christmas. moi moi.
Switzerland: I'm Swiss, and I don't give a fuck about anyone else. -tea sip- x2
More seriously, it made me wonder if Prussia gets along well with Russia's sisters in canon despite him absolutely hating Russia, and honestly wonder about the show he was setting up. I suppose nothing in this movie can be considered canon really though, or will ever be explained... oh well.
|