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To be perfectly honest, I couldn't finish this movie. I had already watched the 1st 3 seasons as well as the OVAs and expected this one to be a well produced wild ride of excitement. But as others have said, this is not that. It's well (enough) produced, but the problems are numerous to the point of an Umamusume fan not getting at all what they're used to consuming and likely being disappointed as I was. Imagine always going to Chick-fil-A for a spicy deluxe chicken sandwich and one day they give you a corndog. Not entirely bad in and of itself, but not at ... all what you were expecting.

For one, the painfully noticeable lack of a soundtrack made for awkwardly quiet and tense scenes all over the place. The sound design felt like they forgot to match the visuals with the audio, as several times the MC, Jungle Pocket, would have over-the-top extreme reactions complete with wildly deforming character model yet her voice was only mildly raised. Also, the foot(read:hoof)falls during the races distinctively lacked oomph. It sounded like they were all running on thick carpet wearing slippers. The start out of the gate just sort of "happened". It lacked that explosiveness that it has in the series.

The total lack of silliness and humor was another turn off. Again, not a terrible thing in and of itself, but this movie removed one of the main reasons I fell in love with the series. The horse girls are all serious about racing, but they don't forget to have fun along the way. And being all moody and serious as it was, it forced most of the characters into this one-dimensional box of too easy to understand with no complex depth, with the exception of Agnes Tachyon. At one point the scenery was so blood red hued and deeply contrast with black shadows, I felt like I was watching a scene from The Summer Hikaru Died. I for real thought the "experiment" Tachyon was talking about was going to come out a closet saying, "Ed-oo-wahh-dou, a-sou-bou?"

At least the visuals were pretty nice, when they weren't getting all acid trippy on you.

Tl;dr: right restaurant, wrong flavor.