Masterful Cinema

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Before i review this movie, i must state that this film is meant for children. children will pretty much like anything you throw at them. However, I respect children and will give them any old piece of junk to watch. Any ways , back to my review. This movie isn't the worst thing ever but that doesn't mean it isn't bad. The story is yet another Origin movie. this one is similar to Code lyoko ,where it was a terrible TV series that forgot to give us an actual pilot so they decided to make a special or movie to give an origin. the plot feels that it was created through a 3rd graders mad lib book. random humor can work but this movie does nothing with its random situations that is funny or creative. The characters are very flat and lifeless. Sam is the kinda smart one, Clover is the boy hungry valley girl(all of them are like that but Sam and Alex have at least one other trait besides that),Alex is a kinda tomboy,Jerry is a generic version of Charlie from Charlie's Angels, Mandy is the beyond Chliche Bully type and the rest are so vanilla that i couldn't tell you half a trait about them. The voice acting is either annoying or bland. The animation attempts to ape the anime art style and to its credit, it does look better than most anime or anime inspired art style. it's fluent and good considering that its a TV movie. The music is white noise, i cant remember a single note of music.Overall, this is just a bland, averagely bad direct to TV movie that, while better than the show , is still kinda dull. It will appeal to little girls and the sickos who used this show as a sexual awakening. Everyone else can skip this movie.