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First review, so please bear with me.

I was surprised at seeing that majority of the reviews I've seen on here are positive, so here's one with an opposite tone. Naturally, this review is overall negative. I'm a relatively new fan of Animal Crossing (starting with AC:NL just this year), but I've instantly fallen in love with it, so finding out it had an anime adaptation made me instantly drawn to it. I expected a lighthearted, character driven slice of life, but what I got was a movie too ambitious for it's own good.

Story: ... 4/10.
The story is bad. There are around 3 or 4 different arcs in this movie, each of which feels like it should have been 6 episodes long. Instead, they're condensed to around 30 minutes each, which just makes them feel really rushed and full of plotholes. There really isn't much more for me to say.

Art: 7/10.
The art is pretty good. They tried to make the artstyle closely resemble the Animal Crossing games, and I think it worked out pretty well. The animation isn't anything to write home about, but there are some excellent usage of CGI which can occasionally make it a blast to watch.

Sound: 9/10.
Most of the music in this game are remixes of music from various Animal Crossing games, mainly the Wild World and City Folk ones as that's the time period this movie was produced in. So naturally, the OST is fantastic. They even included a live performance of K.K. Bossa, one of my favrouite K.K. Slider songs in! The music is generally used appropriately, athough there are some places where it seems a bit awkwardly put.

Character: 6/10.
I feel like the movie introduces way too many characters to get attached to, so in the end it just makes you not have much emotional attachment to any of them. The individual characters are fine, as most of them are faithful to their in-game counterparts, but I feel like the directors were reaching way too far for this. This may be just me though, as I have never really interacted with any of the characters in the movie save Celeste and Blathers.

Enjoyment: 6/10.
Most of the parts I liked about the movie are the OST and the characters interacting with eachother, but I feel like the story significantly hinders my enjoyment of this movie. However, I did manage to enjoy it.

Overall: 6/10.
Despite all it's shortcomings (mainly the story), I still managed to enjoy the movie. I feel like it could have been much better for me if I had any prior significant attatchment to any of the main characters, but I don't. However, the movie set a beautiful message and executes quite well on it, and for me that makes it all the more memorable. In the end, this is a kid's movie, targeted at kids, so I think taking it too seriously would really hinder your enjoyment.