This is a very serious movie to end a very funny show.
Light-on-the-humor, and heavy on a typical plot ending to a series. It features some of the best animation effort in the series. Wasted on a mostly-jokeless cap to the series.
I know they needed to tie the series-off, but they could have made it sillier like the show. Instead it was a slog through emotional recuperation for Nathan.
Nathan, now a broken-hearted sob, from a love that never happened, (which was a passing joke), laments through more than half the movie searching for himself.
The rest of the band's presence is minimal, and Toki is reduced to a literal child-brain for the movie, taking away his agency and ability to contribute to the solution.
The movie was supposed to be about how the band stops the end of the world, which it mostly-does, but there's a divide. It's mostly about how Nathan is sad, and the band more-or-less relies on him for the entire world-saving part.
There might be a joke only every couple minutes, and it's quickly overshadowed by some other events.
I'm happy Adult Swim released 3 movies for us aging fans, and I see the effort, but I didn't feel affection towards this release.
I would recommend the last series cap, the rock-opera "A Doomstar Requiem" over this.
Light-on-the-humor, and heavy on a typical plot ending to a series. It features some of the best animation effort in the series. Wasted on a mostly-jokeless cap to the series.
I know they needed to tie the series-off, but they could have made it sillier like the show. Instead it was a slog through emotional recuperation for Nathan.
Nathan, now a broken-hearted sob, from a love that never happened, (which was a passing joke), laments through more than half the movie searching for himself.
The rest of the band's presence is minimal, and Toki is reduced to a literal child-brain for the movie, taking away his agency and ability to contribute to the solution.
The movie was supposed to be about how the band stops the end of the world, which it mostly-does, but there's a divide. It's mostly about how Nathan is sad, and the band more-or-less relies on him for the entire world-saving part.
There might be a joke only every couple minutes, and it's quickly overshadowed by some other events.
I'm happy Adult Swim released 3 movies for us aging fans, and I see the effort, but I didn't feel affection towards this release.
I would recommend the last series cap, the rock-opera "A Doomstar Requiem" over this.