Chainsaw Man Movie: Reze-hen

I do recommend the movie after you watched season 1 of CSM, because one it's basically a sequel to it and plus it covers an arc that I think what I just watched was super important for the story as it highlights so much symbolic tones and moves forwards the story. Animation was incredible, the 2nd half of the movie was a spectacle and the OST was great, I felt every soundtrack hitting to the point for every scene and Kensuke Ushio, a music composer I haven't heard of as much but seeing his works of DEVILMAN crybaby, A Silent Voice, and of course CSM ... season 1. Which is astounding. The main OP by Kenshi Yonezu was just amazing my goodness, bringing him back for this movie was just a given. I have heard that this movie doesn't cover much of the background and minute details that the manga does but that is pretty given when adapting anything to animation and having to cut some things however 10/10 I don't see any faults in terms of boredom or disinterest after my first watch.

Personal Feelings:

This was a very good watch. I felt goosebumps, and lots of mixed emotions through out every scene. I haven't rewatched season 1 in a long awhile so there's so much symbolism when it comes to this movie. I also felt the inevitable fate that was going to happen at the end as well! Even though I was spoiled about it I just felt major goosebumps about it. Ost, Sound, animation, pacing, and paused frames was incredible. Haven't read the manga but dang that was great.

ENG:

Somewhat bipolar between genuinely engaging but overly controlled experimentation and a stupidly faithful adaptation (they traced at least a dozen panels from the manga! without adding or taking anything away!).

It could've work as a great dynamic to highlight moments of high dramatic relevance, but it ends up as a malnourished idea because it falls into a somewhat sloppy rhythm with a sequence of scenes that are bothersome by minimizing the impact of the plot at certain crucial moments.

Despite appearing to be the director's first feature film coming from serialized anime and short films, judging by his filmography, I think it still holds up thanks to ... the power of the adapted screenplay and the emotional weight of the narrative (I'm biased, though. XOXO Fujimoto).

PT-BR:

Meio bipolar entre a experimentação realmente engajante, mas demasiadamente controlada, e uma adaptação estupidamente fidedigna (pô, traçaram pelo menos 1 dúzia de painéis do mangá! sem tirar nem por!).

Poderia soar como uma dinâmica ótima para destacar momentos de alta relevância dramática, mas acaba numa ideia desnutrida por cair num ritmo e encadeamento de cenas meio desleixados que incomodam ao minimizar o impacto do enredo em certos momentos cruciais.

Apesar de aparentar ser o primeiro longa-metragem do diretor, vindo do anime serializado e curta-metragens, visto a filmografia aqui do site, acho que ainda assim se sustenta pela potência do roteiro adaptado e pelo peso emocional da narrativa (sou suspeito pra falar).

"10/10, I like it when the pretty colors go by." You know they literally devoted entire scenes to lampshading through unsubtle dialogue how this movie is high-budget art spectacle slop that the masses will love, right? Well shonen-fans rejoice, for fast food spectacle has arrived. Luckily all those 'depth, nuance, and subtext' things won't be missed.

"You watched the movie wrong, your supposed to turn your'e brain off and have fun." Well yes, of course, I also turned my eyes and ears away just to be sure I wouldn't dislike this. Engaging with stories to fully appreciate them? Naw.

Shark-man comedic-relief punching-bag to endlessly fellate the author's ... goodboy self-insert? Wow Denji, You're so cool! Maybe one day your brain will start braining and you'll finally be able to dual-wield swords as well as Kirito from Kirito's "He's just so cool!" SimulAtOr.

The plot is... completely redundant and excisable filler which reduces to almost entirely just shonen-action slop. The nonromance would've been interesting if it would let it be romance instead of this shallow insincere nonromance that keeps cutting away to remind the viewer that, actually, this is not- Could it please stop constantly tipping its hand to remove all suspense? It's annoying enough having to deal with all the CSM spoilers everywhere else on the internet, now it's even spoiling itself.

Aside from irrelevant noncharacter bodies-to-be, the action is mostly just regenerators pointlessly filling screentime by smacking each other around a bunch (also lampshaded multiple times by unsubtle dialogue) until they're ready to move the nonplot forward, by ending the movie. What happens when you pit an enemy who can near instantly blow up the entire area against a bunch of idiots who can punch real-good or something? You pretend like they aren't all instantly dead and constantly nerf that OP one whenever the plot-armor needs to kick in so that you can fill the screentime with a bunch of pointless bs on top of pointless bs in which the noncharacter animegirl follows her nonmotivations throughout the entire movie so the plot can happen. Jumping the shark? Why yes, literally and deliberately. "It's dumb because it's supposed to be dumb." Yeah, I know, It's still dumb.

The fights frankly look terrible. So much of the action "choreography" is just random bs and overproduced noise. Zoom in even closer please, it might be dangerous to the budget if people could actually see what is happening through all the shaky-sloppy "fighting" and explosions.

That OP started off decently integrated to the movie and then veered off into depicting a bunch of vapid artsy bs instead.

3/10 (where 5/10 is average) occasionally nice art/animation spectacle.