This movie was boringly average. It felt like I was in the cinema for hours, stuck in a time chamber that slowed downtime where a 1 minute felt like 10. The animation, story, characters, voice acting, and pacing were all average or below. It’s just odd because the last movie suffered from none of those problems.

I think there were times when the animation did something unique with extremely long shot animation but even then half the time it didn’t feel like polished animation. If it wasn’t for those parts the film would probably be a 3/10 instead of a 5. Just disappointing overall.

Incredibly boring… I found myself slouching over in my seat just waiting for some scenes to end. After such a slow season I expected a little bit more from the movie, but it seemed to have dragged out just as slowly. The plot became predictable right from the start, the score was incredibly underwhelming, the fight scenes felt long and visually dull. The last few fights were the only entertaining parts of the movie which was incredibly disappointing since they only lasted a few minutes towards the end. The lack of detail in each scene just created such a lazy tone to the movie.

I still have high hopes for the upcoming season but the movie just wasn’t worth the watch and contributed nothing to the series.

*REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS*

Hey all, thank you for reading this being my first review here on MAL.

First off, let me begin with what I enjoyed about this movie. First things first, I loved the fight scenes in the third act of the movie. Todoroki, Bakugo and Midoriya each have their own fight at the end of the film and I found watching those to be extremely entertaining and well-choreographed. However, this alone was not enough to save the movie in my eyes.

The biggest problem I have is with the story. It is generic, bland, and uninteresting with a premise that COULD have been very interesting. As I watched this movie I felt like I had already seen this movie before. Also, the movie was marketed as taking place all over the world.

I think the story fails most largely in not really incorporating the other members of class 1-A at other locations across the world. Wouldn’t it have been awesome and intense if each location had a specific job to do, and the heroes could only win if everyone successfully completed their task? I believe that would have been way more interesting than what we got.

Another thing that I found disappointing was how they dealt with Midoriya being falsely accused as a mass murderer. HE ONLY ENCOUNTERS THE LAW ONCE IN THE MOVIE. Yes, he is on the run for most of the film but it doesn’t feel like it since he never encounters any authority figures. Also, the writing was lazy with the whole framing. There was never even any evidence that was used against Midoriya.

The only reason why it happened was that “oh, bad guys infiltrated the police so we don’t need to write in any evidence against Deku”. To me, that is bull shit and lazy writing. If they wanted to make the film more compelling, lean into that more and make us truly feel like Deku was actually in trouble.

Also, those badass suits they used in the marketing were only in the first minute of the film. WTF is with that???

Summary: Fighting was good and well-choreographed. The story was a mess. 5/10.

Every B plot was bad or underdeveloped, as in the last 2 films, Todoroki and Bakugo have a separate big fight from Midoria, they were just not good, and there were even clips of every other classmate in some sort of battle, but all underdeveloped, all with lack lustier choreography.

and a little side note, the music was so good in Hero’s rising, I’d even say amazing, you say run is literally the motivational music meme in the anime community right now, and it did not hit home anywhere near as much as before, I didn’t even take notice of it, to be honest, maybe I need a second watch, but I guess it´s hard to strike gold twice, would have just been nice for this to be an OVERALL improvement to the second film

Give it a watch if you want, its got zero story relevance, the fights aren’t all that crazy (Although a bit darker for MHA, which is a nice change), and you’d probably find more enjoyment out of just watching a whole other anime tbh, I find it worse to watch something mediocre more than anything.

Nothing about this movie My Hero Academia Movie 3 or its story makes any kind of sense and it’s full of cheesy recycled boring tropes, themes, massive ozone-sized plot holes, and plot armor.

* Why are the bad guys with quirks so strong and just what the actual fuck is their quirk abilities, I saw the movie and I still don’t know.

* How does the big bad know who Deku’s friends are and can pinpoint their locations across the planet?

*How do the rest of the all might know that Deku is fighting to stop the bad event at the end of the movie if he hasn’t had any communication with him?

Can we get one Anime movie by the way that doesn’t use excessive amounts of CGI by the way?

Definitely not worth the price of admission, do yourself a favor and just wait to watch it when it comes out online.

In one word the movie My Hero Academia Movie 3 was Mediocre