it's brilliant, and it's yet again a new take on this amazing story. nami is a great character and it's the detail snd new 2010 look (asu playing gameboy, etc) of some smaller thinks that makes it movie really shine. I personally think this picture is the very essence of the film as is for the most part like episode 25 from the series (the normal school life) but then it gets darker and darker and more extreme (new place for the lance, kaoru gets two great entrance scenes, the final is omfg, the fight against sahaquiel is gorgeous). In a nutshell if you like great pictures, the normal school life, the relationships between the characters and are open for a new take on the story then you should watch it. Best movie i've seen this whole year. looks like i gotta watch it again today...
Yes, It's a great movie. Mari is likeable but doesn't get much screen time or development, so she remains a shallow character for the time being. Fight scenes are well done. Drawings are well thought out. Music is amazing.
The only not-likeable aspect: some characters explaining plot devices [the intsruementality project] and making the more obscure relationships a bit more obvious [Yui/Rei], for those that already knew, at least.
Other than that, I totally loved it, and I can't really say its negative aspects took away some of the movie's overall enjoyability.
I'm still confused to this day as to how Eva 3.0 became an angsty version of Eureka 7.
What really pissed me off about it were two things:
1. All the previous elements from the past 2 rebuilds were completely gone. All characters personalities were changed and for the worse, being reduced to angry...and moronic. Setting, gone, unrecognizable. Any questions that had been going through the movies until now had completely disappeared. Like: "Who is Mari? And what purpose does she serve?" Silly! You Don't need to know something like that!". It really felt like a sequel to a COMPLETELY different movie.
2. Almost all of the themes and tones of the previous Rebulids was completely gone. Which REALLY got me mad considering how I thought that this time around the characters and their personalities/motivations were done MUCH better. A great shift in tone from "NGE" and "End of Evangelion" in which instead of developing, everything just slid into a big black uninteresting pit of despair. Here, with a more positive touch the series for the first time in a while felt like it had some new life breathed into it. Not only was it more interesting and invigorating, but you had no idea what was going to happen next....
Which is quite honestly why 2.22 got me excited for 3.33. As at the end, all of the things I have mentioned that I loved about rebuild (that made it better than NGE) came to a head at the end where Shinji "man'd up" and saved Rei himself. It was a sign of hope then...we were entering uncharted territory and it looked like it was going to out do NGE by miles....
....and THEN 3.33 came out and brought it back to square. FUCKING. ONE. Everything I had mentioned. Gone. And in it's place, the same mopey, depressed sea of blandness was back again. I find it kinda funny in a way. As 2.22 ended where NGE had begun to go to shit.
Really, I say this with 100% conviction. 3.33 is one of the worst, most disappointing anime movies I have ever seen. On the sole basis that it straight up KILLED a revival of a series that at one point I had loved. A series that had originally been awesome, only for it to slowly die and end with one of the most insulting, stupid, pseudo-psychological (and yet HILARIOUSLY so) endings in history. Only slightly redeemed by "End of Evangelion". Rebuild was a godsend, it was a hope that this series and it's newfound potential could finally be ended properly. The way it deserved, the way WE deserved.
But 3.33 strut on up, kicked us in the balls, shoved it's middle finger into our face and then while we were on the ground set up a red velvet around us and called it "art".
I too wonder how the HELL it fell so far. It as almost as if Anno had thought to himself "Now how can I completely ruin it again?". Seriously, if anyone knows, EXPLAIN.
Feel free to elaborate on your own feelings regarding 3.33, I just kind put a lot of my pent up rage into this. XD
As soon as I read 14 years have passed in the synopsis, I said "darn." It's hard to do convincingly good time skips in a running series. Considering the format of Rebuild is 4 movies, and this is 3/4, and that they planned to do plot-specific stuff rather than a Death&Rebirth clipshow thing, they were already working at a bit of a disadvantage.
