Reviews

I love the Eurovision, and this was a lovely tribute to this beloved song contest, which really gets the spirit of this competition, while still being crazy enough to laugh out loud quite often.

Sure, this was a cheesy and campy movie, but that's what Eurovision is. I loved almost every minute of it. Even the seemingly forced cameos by previous winners. I wasn't surprised to see that the American reviewers hate this movie, while most Europeans enjoyed it. Americans have much to learn.

Two episodes in, I gave up. Because seriously, who the hell thought it was a good idea to produce a show targeted at the much-coveted incel demographic?

This is definitely the wrong show for 2018, but in any era, it seems to me that a show for teens that romanticizes stalking women and celebrates rape culture is just a bad bad bad idea.

I fell for one of the oldest, meanest tricks in the book when i ran into this title at the video store - the DVD cover is simply beautiful, and the movie summary makes the movie sounds reasonably interesting. But unfortunately, the cover seems to be one of the few good things about the movie.

While the animation and the soundtrack were great, and plot had a lot of potential, it seems that the creators of this movie didn't really bother to develop the story into the great movie that it could have been. The story is somewhat scrambled, the characters are developed badly (if at all), with the bulk of information about the main character being provided somewhere in the final battle. That is - somewhere in the last 7 minutes of this (short) movie.

In short - if you feel a burning urge to watch anime, and this is the last title on the shelf at the video store, I'd still recommend that you think twice before renting this. And if you do rent it, do yourself a favor and watch the Japanese dub, at least this way you'll get to experience the cool soundtrack in its full glory.