Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27321531-20161230130948

So I watched the movie online, with chinese subs. I will generally sum up the movie and state the pros and cons, along with my own opinion on it. Again, '''SPOILER ALERT! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!'''

Plot:

The movie begins with the 3d Movie special. Just Miracle and Mofurun on a floating island, they try to cast spells at one another mischeviously. Mofurun turns Miracle into Cure Flora (says her intro speech) and Miracle turns Mofurun into the cat mascot of the Toei Animation. Miracle suddenly summons balloons and Mofurun unfortunately is caught and lifted up into the air. With the balloon touching and disrupting a bee hive, a swarm of bees flies towards Mofurun and his balloon and... you know what happens next: Boom! goes the balloon! As Mofurun falls down from the sky, Miracle uses her broom and tries to catch the falling bear. Realizing the distance, she calls out to the audience to wave their miracle lights to help summon a spell. After few times of succession, Mofurun sits on a dozen of balloons, where Miracle finally catches her mascot and sing the ending song. 3D Movie Ending

The actual movie begins nows. After the credits, we suddenly see Maho Tsukai's transformation scene! Dia and Emerald! (Why suddenly a transformation?!) After the transform, the OP plays and we see why: a Yokubaru has invaded the city! A "combat" scene occurred and Felice threw the monster. The combat ended with a VERY FAST special finisher: 'Diamond Eternal! '(Reminds me of HaCha Movie at the beginning too; well, maybe because of the same art style lol)

We get redirected to a balcony after the fight and they chat about wishes. Suddenly, a shooting star flies, but as they wish, it got closer and hits Mirais head (For reference, look at the scene in DX1, where Nagisa gets hit on the head by Moop and Foop). The star turns out to be a letter and appears to be an invitation from the principal of the Witch School! The principal, Kochou, invites them back and join the Balloon festival, which only occurs once every 100 years! The girls return and find everything to be ballooned! Many locations are inside an "actual big balloon" and everyone seems to be having fun. Riko takes out her crystal ball and uses it like an ipad to check the map of the location. They encounter the 7 bears (cameo) in the promo poster and encounter Francois, the fashion store owner and is selling limited edition dress. All the girls, including Mofurun gets one too. While walking, Mirai sees a dark bear shadow walking past, who mumbles to himself to achieve his wish.

They attend a clown show and this "Goat-Dog-Dragon" is performing to the audience with series of fire performance. Ha-Chan, known for her innocent nature, flies towards the creature and plays with it, making the audience go aww.Later on, the principal tells everyone to make a wish; for a special red ore is the wishing stone which can grant one of the people any one wish it claims. Riko wants a Magic book, with Ha-Chan agreeing the same. Mirai couldnt' think of any, but the scene sees many balloons (which are the wishes) flying up in the skies. A GIGANTIC BEAR BALLOON suddenly appears, turning out to be Mofurun. The red ore chooses Mofu (short abbrev., as Im lazy) and askes her wish, saying that she wants M, R and H's wish to come true. Realizing that cannont happen, M tells Mofu to make another wish.

As she proceeds to wish another, the same dark bear appears [called Dark Kuma] and throws many red evil bear-like minions to invade the environment. The girls transform into Sapphire, and with Felice, they fight the dark bear. (The combat in this scene was really good, especially with Mirai). In the end, they fail and Dark Kuma captures Mofu and escapes, detransforming Mirai and Riko due to their distance with Mofu.

(Really tired, so Im going to type it short)

Mofu finds herself in a jungle and to be attacked by the same red evil bears. Escaping, she finds a group of bears and befriends them. {Insert that 3D Ending Song}Afterwards, a black bear walks in and every bear were afraid of him, except Mofu. He creates many candies for Mofu and Mofu wants to share. M,R and F tries to find Mofu, but fail and Mirai falls into depression. They rest and eat a garlic-like fruit, where Ha-Chan's mouth sprays the environment with puny smell. The girls laugh, but suddenly they see shooting stars. [Emotional Song plays] Mirai thinks of Mofurun, while vice versa. By wishing, their miracle lights emits a balloon and conveniently, they see Mofu's too, so they know her location and flies towards that balloon. Back to Mofu's scene, she bids farewell to the black bear, but he refuses to let her leave, as he knows she will not like him like other bears. The black bear turns out to be Dark Kuma, and threatens to help him succeed his wish. Mofu refuses and ends up being locked up in his mansion.

The 3 girls flies towards the scene, where they are attacked by a dark version of the "Goat-Dog-Dragon" creature, leaving Ha-Chan to transform into Felice and use Linkle Pink Tourmaline. Mirai and Riko allows Felice to deal with the monster, whilst they continue their way. Dark Kuma stops them with the red minions, where they are left defenseless without their transformation. Riko, sacrifices herself and cast a spell on her own broom to take Mirai to escape, while she summons a whirlwind to divert the enemie's focus.

Mirai later finds Mofu, but Dark Kuma stops her and Mofu wishes to protect Mirai. Suddenly, the red ore grants her wish and the ore becomes an amulet to transform Mofu into CURE MOFURUN! She saves Mirai and both pinch faces to check whether they were dreaming. Mofu vows to protect Mirai and battles intensively with Dark Kuma (She fights better than the main cast) and summons broomsticks and enlarged broomsticks as her spells (No name). Mirai noticed Riko trapped in a spell and she uses the smelly garlic fruit to wake her up with her smelly breath! As Mirai hugs Riko in happiness, Riko cries in pain from Mirai's breath. XD

Felice arrives with the creature (turned out to be the creature from the clown show, to be infected with the red evil minions) and fires a flame towards Dark Kuma, whilst Mofu enlarges a broomstick to crush Dark Kuma. DK gets angry and seizes Mofu and crushes her rock by rock. As Mofu wants to hug DK, he landed one final punch on her brooch, crushing her amulet and ribbon, resulting Mofu dies and turns back into an ordinary teddy bear. The 3 girls are devastated with sadness as Mofu cannot talk. DK laughs, but later finds out he is also crying. Touched by Mofu actually trying embrace him as a friend, Dark Kuma is purified to be a normal little black bear.

The reason for him to be evil is because he had magic when he was small, but other people or animals are frigtened of him. Due to constant neglience, his hatred grew and the dark powers became powerful. In the end, it turns out the real villain is called Dark Magic (tbc of the name) who is the shadow side of the black bear and has dark powers to control the world. M, R, H summon the Dark Power to stop his magic and it was useless. However, Principal saw through his crystal glass and urged every magician in the city to chant the same spell. In the end, the magic stopped and miraculously, the powers of the chant enabled the 3 girls to transform for one more time (Dia) and Mofu is brought back to life, saying their phrases for the final time.

The 4 girls, including black bear battle and enter the Dark Power's weak spot. Throughout the combat, Felice uses Linkle Pink Tourmaline, Miracle uses Linkle Peridot and Magical uses Linkle Aquamarine (I forgot Miracle and Magical's Linkle attack, but i think it was something like that). After they enter, they have series of battle with the Dark Bear: In Dia style, they attack with physical; Ruby, they burn with fire and punch the monster; In Sapphire, only static lines appear which shows they are fighting whilst flying; when the monster tried to attack black bear, Topaz Miracle saves him with a net catching the monster, whilst Topaz Magical slams the monster with a tennis racket. This is where it gets real; Mofu, Miracle and Magical summons '''ALL JEWEL FORMS! '''Together, with Felice, every forms attack the dark power! After a series of beat up (lasting less than 1 minute), they turn into their Alexandrite form with Mofu and perform an upgraded attack: '''Precure, Heartful Rainbow! '''The monster is vanquish and the world is saved. Mofu's amulet disappears as the red ore had limited powers and black bear bids farewell to the girls, only to find the group of bears welcoming him to the family, finally granting his wish: To be accepted by other peers. As he starts his new life, Mofurun smiles and feels happy for him. The ED Dance with the Mofurun country follows, but the dance footage is enclosed in a small box, where the credits are on the right. After the music, drawing entries winners are shown and the final credits appears: Witchy Pretty Cure! The Movie.

Pros: 1. Movie quality. Its great, art quality better than Kiseki No Mahou

2. Insert of songs. It matches the scenes of some aspects.

3. Emotional bond between Mirai and Mofurun. Didn't find it sad to cry, but it did develop Mirai and Mofurun character

Cons:

1. Plain battles. Don't get me wrong; the Sapphire battle scene of Miracle throwing a series of punches and kicks and Mofurun battling Dark Kuma was intense. However, other scenes did not prove Magical and Felice's potential of combat. It seems like they are abit too weak. The special finisher was too fast too.

2. Lack of special attacks. Linkle Peridot/Aquamarine/Pink Tourmaline appeared, however main attacks like Emerald Reincarnation, and other jewel attacks were not presented. Diamond Eternal had appeared, but only for 5 seconds, which felt like a disgrace to the Dia duos.

3. Too much focus on Mofurun. Mirai had somewhat focus, whereas both Riko and Ha-Chan felt more like side-character with no importance at all. I know the movie is supposed to be Mofu focused, but because of that our girls had less spotlight. And they did not have much in the TV series even.

Personal View: Overall, it feels like New Stage 123 combined: Movie exclusive Cure, New mascot and evil bears as villains. I felt that if Mofurun was a Cure, why not a permanent one instead of temporary? And the ED, Mofurun wasn't in her Cure form, so what's the point of having her as a Cure if she is not presented in the dance? The music were good and the art quality were good (no wonder they hired the same ones to do the next Dream Stars), but the combat scenes still felt lacking. Its WAY better than the TV fight scenes, but still lacks a punch (HaCha movie had more fighting and combat to the extreme).

The story was okay, more like a Suite movie where they return to the Land of Harmony. Can say it includes touching moments of Mofurun and Mirai but tbh, I think they should of put more emphasis on them being witches rather than a whole new movie to promote another Precure. I think if they had a movie of them battling a dark witch like Solciere from Kiseki no Mahou, that would help them prove they are the greatest witches.

This is my review and my own opinion to the movie. If it offends some members, I do beg your pardon. Anyways, this movie is kind of average for me; I'll give it a 3 out of 5 stars if I could. That's all! Look forward to my next review to Dream Stars~ (I'm drawing a Kirakira Precure A La Mode, post it later)

  