Precure All Stars 2 Mini-review

A friend in Japan sent me this summary of the Pretty Cure All Stars DX 2: Light of Hope – Protect the Rainbow Jewel! motion picture:

Went to the theatre to catch the Precure All Stars Deluxe 2 movie. I haven’t really watched PreCure past the first 26 episodes of the first series, but I was able to keep up and enjoy the film. It does feature every Precure girl and every mascot character, and the mascot characters from the movies make cameo appearances. The new Heartcatch girls are the main characters and though everyone gets their moment to shine, and the Fresh girls get the lion’s share of the supporting casts’ screen time. I was disappointed Cure White and Black don’t get to kick much a*s and when they finally appear to fight, they’re reduced to a few repeating cels of hand-to-hand combat (a la minimal DBZ style) whereas the Fresh girls enjoyed complex, stylized combats. There’s a lot of dialogue from the mascot characters and a couple of scenes in which most of them have converged and exchange high-pitched dialogue with their slew of annoying sentence ender words – mapple. The movie did not reinvent the wheel but it was an entertaining “battle for the fate of the world” franchise movie.