Let's go Jets movie review

So before there was the Cheer Dan jdorama series this year, a movie actually came out last year about the Jets that won the championship in the US. Let's go Jets feels like a better paced version of Cheer Dan series except with Amami Yuki as the tough instructor.

After watching the movie, I have to wonder how the soft Odagiri Joe character will be able to whip the girls into shape? How will he be able to tell the girls what they need to hear instead of what they want to hear? I really liked how the story saved Amami Yuki's story for the end just before the finish for the emotional oomph.

While The Cheer Dan series is more about the various ways to say ganbatte, Let's go Jets is about playing one's role in a team and sometimes even playing nice is not for the benefit of the team. Plus points to Let's go Jets for having a plump girl on the team.

Let's go Jets also has one of the worst uses of English since Ishihara Satomi in Gojira. There is this guy American guy commentator during the competition who says some bad stuff about the Japanese.

I get it. You sort of need a bad guy for the audience to root against. Problem is, the dialogue is so fake and bad I did not know how to cringe or laugh. The voice has obviously been rerecorded and it sounds like a bad guy talking in a cartoon for little kids especially with the super exaggerated facial expressions. It really feels like a Japanese child's idea of what a America is.

Japanese movies need someone is well versed is both languages and cultures to advice them on the use of English and foreign people. I'm not sure I'll be able to do this job as well as Minister of Common Sense for jdoramas but I'll give it my best shot.

Let's go Jet's is nowhere as good as underdog movies like Swing Girls but it was a fun 2 hours except for the cringy commentary. It made me more hesitant to continue watching the Cheer Dan series because I find it very hard to expand the story and Amami Yuki's character is much more interesting than Odagiri's. Let's go Jets is available from avistaz with English subtitles. Watchable.