I went into Fireworks with completely zero knowledge and expectations and the movie did not even meet any standards of competency for me. Here's five reasons why you should not watch Fireworks:
1. NO PATHOS
The story did not give me any reason at all to care for the characters. We are given a basic introduction into the characters, the main girl is dragged kicking and screaming by her mother who is remarrying because she doesn't want to relocate and then the main character starts the time travel cycle.
First off, when we normally get a groundhog day like story, you either need some dangerous event that needs changing, a relationship that needs saving or you just want to see someone do interesting things. Fireworks does none of these. The anime tells us that they two characters like each other but they don't even have a relationship prior to the time travelling.
2. VERY INCONSISTENT ART
For a freaking movie, I have no idea why many times the art looks completely awful.
3. EVERYTHING FEELS SO GENERIC
From the high school setting to the jokes, Fireworks feels like a poor copy of a copy of Koe no Katachi and Kimi no na wa. I've seen this so many times before and done so much better.
4. DOES NOT TAKE ADVANTAGE OF TIME TRAVEL ELEMENT
Self explanatory.
5. NONSENSICAL AND NO ENDING
The movie keeps asking the audience whether a fireworks are round or flat and then proceeds to give us this weird musical scene and starts to get psychedelic for no reason while I was struggling to keep awake waiting for the story to do something interesting with the time travel stuff.
Finally, there's an artsy fartsy no freaking ending to the story. It probably makes sense to the writer and fans of Shaft, the crappy animators but they failed to make me care about the story to even try.
SUMMARY
I can't remember the last time I've seen such a poorly produced and executed anime movie that failed on every single front for me. Do not watch.
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