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Take the sister act
Remove any sort of charm
throw in bland band that never harmonizes or feels cohesive even in the end.

Extremely Preachy religious imagery callously shoved on the screen with no real message behind it.
Elephant in the room subjugation by the nuns isn't expanded on.
Absolutely dreadful pacing for the first half. Multiple mundane scenes that don't add any character development nor story theme. one fun scene that seems to tease a possible lesbian relationship that is then ruined by the mentioned subjugation by nun. A band movie where we never actually see all 3 members practicing together. The male character acts like a ... Labrador retriever and lacks any sort of personality. Every single character (save the red head into style who the movie should have been on ) acts extremely timid. Always walking on egg shells . None of them ever just seem to be relaxed with one another and it shows in the chemistry.
Main character is given synesthesia seemingly just to have promotional colorful material for ads because its used so sparingly and without direction that its effectively pointless.
Was sadly really disappointed. You have Science Saru which did a fine job of the animation , and you have a great director who is more than capable of producing fantastic works ; yet here we are with a mundane manufactured committee think film with no heart and no message..

Made me want to watch Girls Band cry to wash my mouth of this .

I just watched this film at the Aniplex showing at the downtown independent. There was no reason for this movie to exist other than as a cash grab. The movie added nothing to the series except tacking on that menma was apparently a loner? Way to tack on the typical pseudo character development cliche onto a character that still remains completely shallow. This movie wasted its opportunities of having character development in all sectors. They turn popo into a running gag instead of developing him (granted they did 2 good scenes showing off his character)and Jintan remains just as shallow as menma. They act all ... "buddy like" but we don't even see much bonding. Outside of the shack we see them split off into pairs, never venturing off together outside of 1 shrine; as if to say if there wasn't this dead girl we wouldn't even be friends. To top all of that off they leave anaru where she left off in the series because"friendship", if they were gonna go that route why bother teasing us with a few scenes of her anyway?, really faulty logic there. It really does pain me to write this because i really enjoyed the series but this movie was such a huge let down and was made for the wrong reasons.