BanG Dream! Film Live

Who is also excited about the 3rd season that will be released soon?

My dream is to see a live concert by the BanG Dream bands (or Love Live Idols) one day. This film made it clear to me how beautiful a live concert can be.
As it was already obviously from the title "BanG Dream! Film Live" and the advance announcements, this is not a "real" film as we know, more a live concert that has been animated.

STORY:
Under the melody of "Tokimeki Experience!" (Poppin'Party) all 25 members (5 members per band) are presented first. Later you will see the members of RAISE A SUILEN and Marina ... , but they are not really active during the film. The film begins with Poppin'Party performing on a concert stage, how we are also used to. This makes it immediately understandable to the viewer that it is an animated live concert. The bands appear little by little.

ART:
The animation is just like the second season of BanG Dream. Very nice to look at and the girls give their full power on stage.

SOUND:
Surely the most important thing, especially during a concert. Anyone who generally is a BanG Dream fan or plays the mobile game knows all the songs that can be heard here. It's just fun to see an animated version of the songs. The complete song list has also been uploaded online for a long time.

ENJOYMENT & OVERALL:
For people who are big fans of the BanG Dream series (not just the anime itself with the two seasons already broadcast), it is definitely a MUST. It's really nice to listen to their songs again. You don't have to click on the touchscreen yourself this time, you can relax and simply enjoy their music.
But if you really have nothing to do with BanG Dream and their music, you are out of place here. You expect a film, but you only see a few bands on the stage that give a performance.

In my opinion this "film" was very successful. It is an absolute MUST for people who love the bands and their music (like myself). No spoilers are made regarding the anime.

Let's hope that season three will bring us a lot of fun and joy again!

This isn't a movie...its basically an animated bang dream live concert from the very beginning to end so if you're only a fan of the 2.5D girls you might not enjoy it because theres little substance to see here.....if you like watching delayed viewings/recordings of bang dream concerts this film is basically that but in 3D cg form so you might enjoy it (bring some KB's and pop some UO's)....the animation is basically the same as season 2 of the anime with no up in quality in the cg models to see; theres still some stiff moments here and there; cg model movement still isn't ...
smooth so it can be alittle jarring but the music is great.

Now before anyone comes at me with their pitch forks, let me clarify something: I NEVER go into something wanting to hate it. I admit that I haven't seen the Bang Dream anime beyond the first episode of season one, nor have I played the game. I did read one of the spin-off mangas (The one centered around Roselia) and liked it. Seeing that Bang Dream has become a popular franchise since its initial failed launch, it's inevitable that it would eventually get a movie. Then I heard what the movie actually turned out to be. Curious, I decided to check it out for myself ... since HIDIVE started streaming it the other day. And...seriously, I can't fathom just why this movie was even made and why the creators were even serious about making a movie like this. I'm talking about this purely from the perspective of someone who has seen very little of Bang Dream. But even with that, I don't know if this is meant to be fanservice for the fans, or some kind of promotional vehicle for the series. Usually movies are given leeway to tell bigger or more experimental stories with their franchise. But you won't find an actual story here. Want to know what this movie is? It's literally an animated concert showing the main bands from the series performing various songs, with a little bit of banter in between.

That is literally it. No, really. The whole anime is just a 3D animated concert sequence. I'm not even kidding. The characters literally just show up, sing a bunch of songs, have some banter between themselves, rinse and repeat for every band. I'm normally fine with movies wanting to do something different from their original source material, but the way Bang Dream's first movie did it just reeks of laziness and making a quick buck with minimal effort. For one, the 3D CGI animation is just awful. Whose bright idea was it to animate not only this, but Bang Dream's second and third seasons in this herky-jerky Barbie doll style? I know the first season's animation wasn't great, but it looked a hell of a lot better than this! Everyone has creepy-looking plastic faces that have little to no expression whatsoever, and while the character movement is okay at best, the 3D models have this weird glossy look that just makes them all look doll-like. All of the animation just feels uninspired and mediocre.

For what it's worth, most of the music in this series isn't bad. But most of the good songs, I feel, only consisted of the ones by Afterglow and Roselia, and a little bit of Poppin Party's songs. Everything else just sounds like rip-offs of other songs. Also, Hello Happy World's music is just painful to listen to, trying too hard to be as aggressively cute and saccharine as possible and nothing else. I wanted to rip my eardrums out every time spaghetti hair marching band girl opened her mouth and belted out her screechy voice. In all honesty though, the music is pretty much the only thing this movie has going for it, and even that can't save it from just how bland and lazy this movie feels. I honestly have to question why Bushiroad felt the need to pour so much money into what is literally a one and a half hour long animated concert, possibly to rake in more money, when the same effect could be achieved by going to the bands' actual, real life concerts. That is literally what concerts are for! Because of this, the movie feels unnecessarily padded out, and nothing happens in between songs. I can't comment on the characters because, again, all they do is perform and chat amongst each other, nothing else. They don't change, they don't do anything noteworthy, they're just kind of there, and their dialogue is just so boring that I couldn't bring myself to care about these people.

I don't know. Maybe I'd like this movie better if I was a fan of Bang Dream as a whole. But seriously, this whole movie feels like a waste of time and money. They really could have done something different with Bang Dream's first movie. They could have expanded on the stories told in the first three seasons in some way, or focused on the bands that the anime didn't get to cover, like the new one called Morfonica. Hell, it could have even been one of those compliation movies that animation companies love to shell out! But even for a movie like this, Bang Dream Film Live is incredibly cheap and feels wholly lazy and uninspired. I honestly wouldn't recommend this even to fans of Bang Dream. But if you like a time killer that won't make you use your brain too much, feel free to check it out. Otherwise, give it a miss.