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« Last post by broodwars on September 13, 2025, 12:41:35 AM »Eh...what the hell...
Haven't been to a movie in years, but my local theater was showing a 1 night only run of the Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle movie, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Anime movies never come to theaters this close to me. It's usually Disney and Universal picking those up.
This movie is the direct continuation of the 4th season of the show, and is the first of 3 movies concluding the series. It's also 2.5 hours long, with an extra half hour tacked on for the usual set of trailers. I was absolutely exhausted by the time I got out of the theater. While we didn't have a packed house, we didn't have an extremely receptive audience who were absolutely captivated.
In general, this was an excellent popcorn action movie, though unfortunately it carries both the strengths and the low...low weaknesses of the series. The animation is absolutely amazing...mostly, per Ufotable standards, with extremely fast and detailed fight choreography just jam-packed with elemental effects and constantly moving backgrounds. This is a gorgeous movie to watch, and I look forward to seeing the completed version on home video considering you can see the exact moment when the money ran out and the still frames came in.
Sony made a big deal about stunt casting Channing Tatum as a somewhat major flashback character, and I found him just passable in that role. Sony could have saved a lot of money and gotten the same or better performance out of one of Bang Zoom's other legendary performers.
The big issue with the film, as is usual for Demon Slayer, is with the writing. It's a Shounen series, so you have the usual array of ass-pulls when fights are getting too one-sided, but an issue that's always bugged me with Demon Slayer (and Bleach too, for that matter) is the formula:
*character fights villain*
*villain gets upper hand*
*villain monologues about how powerful they are*
*character has a flashback that inspires them to suddenly develop a new power*
*character kills villain*
*villain gets lengthy backstory as they die*
Not counting multiple times this happens in a single fight (I swear, Tanjiro's fight has at least 3 runs of this cycle*, I counted at least 3 times throughout the film that this happens, and it gets increasingly grating as the fights drag on. It all culminates in a demon backstory that I swear to god had to be at least a half hour long, if not an hour long. All this, right in the middle of a fight, and the demon wasn't even dead afterwards.
And when the final fight is over, the movie just...stops. It has to. There are 2 more of these things, and they all take place in this castle.
It's just an exhausting movie to watch, though the audience did a lot to make it a fun watch, particularly with Zenitsu's gratifyingly short fight.
Haven't been to a movie in years, but my local theater was showing a 1 night only run of the Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle movie, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Anime movies never come to theaters this close to me. It's usually Disney and Universal picking those up.
This movie is the direct continuation of the 4th season of the show, and is the first of 3 movies concluding the series. It's also 2.5 hours long, with an extra half hour tacked on for the usual set of trailers. I was absolutely exhausted by the time I got out of the theater. While we didn't have a packed house, we didn't have an extremely receptive audience who were absolutely captivated.
In general, this was an excellent popcorn action movie, though unfortunately it carries both the strengths and the low...low weaknesses of the series. The animation is absolutely amazing...mostly, per Ufotable standards, with extremely fast and detailed fight choreography just jam-packed with elemental effects and constantly moving backgrounds. This is a gorgeous movie to watch, and I look forward to seeing the completed version on home video considering you can see the exact moment when the money ran out and the still frames came in.
Sony made a big deal about stunt casting Channing Tatum as a somewhat major flashback character, and I found him just passable in that role. Sony could have saved a lot of money and gotten the same or better performance out of one of Bang Zoom's other legendary performers.
The big issue with the film, as is usual for Demon Slayer, is with the writing. It's a Shounen series, so you have the usual array of ass-pulls when fights are getting too one-sided, but an issue that's always bugged me with Demon Slayer (and Bleach too, for that matter) is the formula:
*character fights villain*
*villain gets upper hand*
*villain monologues about how powerful they are*
*character has a flashback that inspires them to suddenly develop a new power*
*character kills villain*
*villain gets lengthy backstory as they die*
Not counting multiple times this happens in a single fight (I swear, Tanjiro's fight has at least 3 runs of this cycle*, I counted at least 3 times throughout the film that this happens, and it gets increasingly grating as the fights drag on. It all culminates in a demon backstory that I swear to god had to be at least a half hour long, if not an hour long. All this, right in the middle of a fight, and the demon wasn't even dead afterwards.
And when the final fight is over, the movie just...stops. It has to. There are 2 more of these things, and they all take place in this castle.
It's just an exhausting movie to watch, though the audience did a lot to make it a fun watch, particularly with Zenitsu's gratifyingly short fight.
