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Haru no Carnival was a wonderful collection of CGI dance numbers. A+ in that regard. But in terms of being a "movie" or a "story", it gets a D-. They gave our laughable villains a really stupid musical number right in the middle. And then, at the very end, they stepped back and said, "Oh, right, we're making a Pretty Cure movie. We're known for having actually threatening villains in what is generally seen as a cutesy show for little girls. Uh... RANDOM DRAGON! Dragons fix everything!" And then they don't even get to fight the thing; they just sing for a minute and then it's over.

I was legitimately surprised at how good Miraculous Magic was after having seen Spring Carnival. I just thought that the All Stars movies had hit critical mass and that they might be able to swing one or two more before ending All Stars as we knew it (whether that meant a drastic change of formula or just not making any more).