The movie just recently became available for streaming, so I got a chance to watch it.

Mostly a recap of the first 2 seasons, but from Nagi and Reo’s point-of-view.

I felt disappointed by this:

Nagi isn’t the most captivating or motivated character. He has a one-dimensional personality and this movie does nothing to change that.

He spends most of the movie moaning about what a hassle it is to do just about anything: Playing soccer, brushing his teeth, even eating.

Incredible football super powers aside, he just isn’t interesting enough to be the subject of a 90 minute movie.

It was nice to watch the group elimination stage from Team V’s point of view, but it’s presented almost as quick highlights, with maybe the best part being against Nico’s Team Y, although more screen time is given to their fateful match against Isagi’s Team Z.

And that’s a problem, because we already saw what happened in V vs Z in excruciating detail in the TV episodes.

Assuming anyone who is investing time and money to watch this has already watched the show already knows exactly what happens, so what was the value add here?

Although the production did animate just about everything from scratch for the movie, there was disappointingly little actual new story.

And the movie production quality was also not that great.

The TV show is famous for its Powerpoint-style graphics, and the movie was only slightly above that.

It felt like a missed opportunity to “fill in the gaps” of the action that’s happening between the Powerpoint slides.

To sum up, it feels like a lot of poor production and concept decisions.