It is Saturday, Memorial Day weekend here in the USA, and as I walk out of work my coworker stops me to ask if I want to buy a hotdog for our Type 1 Diabetes fundraiser. I say that I’m allergic to most hotdogs but will donate. In lieu of a hotdog I was given a fresh bag of popcorn and a can of Coke.
Seemed appropriate to go home and watch my movie with my snackie.
Firstly I would like to say that Unica/You’re the One is easily my favorite song in the franchise so it’s a great opener for this movie. The 3D animation is very pretty and manages to stay true enough to the 2D designs to not be jarring to me. Now I do personally prefer Winx in 2D, but I am unbothered by the 3D in this movie.
It is now Tuesday afternoon. My dog was hospitalized. She’s finally home so resuming movie.
This movie is going to exacerbate the timeline issues isn’t it?
Oh fuck yeah, Oritel has Soul Calibur. Inner 10 year old Hope is hyped. Book animation is beautiful.
Why didn’t Faragonda inform what’s-his-face about Bloom earlier? Is she being shady again?
Oh hi, Codatorta, I’m glad you still exist. Wizgiz looks really weird in 3D. Also they gave Riven the 2000s spiked douchebag haircut and that feels pointed. My big brother told me never to trust someone with that hairstyle. Hi, Mirta. Griselda kinda slays here. Wait who’s the cat?
So Alfea is a 5 year program but they’re graduating the Winx minus Bloom at 3 years? Wouldn’t this early of a graduation mean the girls are moving forward without core curriculum for their majors? What happens if they want to go to grad school or if a situation comes up they have no context for? What if their employers look at their transcripts and almost half the credits are missing? You can’t apply for some grad programs without specific prerequisites and labs that you get in later years of college. Why is Alfea stunting them like this? Musa, Tecna, and Flora are not royalty, being employed matters!
Wow all the girls are tiny next to the boys. No tall girls allowed I guess.
Does Alfea not have seniors? Sky fucking ditched his friends graduating, damn. At least Bloom sorta had an excuse.
Ah princess ball dress! My beloved!
What do you mean, Griselda, these boys are in their dorm regularly. This ain’t new ground, they were doing that in Season 1. Either Griselda is oblivious or she chooses to pretend this is a new deal.
…did Bloom get kicked out?!
Hi, palette swap Diaspro. Glad you’re here to start shit while not even being my girl.
“Mike and Vanessa”? Bloom why are you calling them that?
OK but graduating college and still getting stuck working retail is relatable. And kinda depressing. The job market is so bad right now and even with my master’s I won’t be making much. I thought this was my escape…
Daphne’s back! And she’s gone after inflicting emotional damage.
This bullshit with Sky is so artificial. Come on, buddy, spit it out or commit to ghosting her.
So is Domino not snowy anymore. (Nevermind, was Obsidian)
Who the fuck is this harpy? Oh the snow is back! Yay!
Not Bloom having visions of False Diaspro. Falspro. Damn it, Bloom, make him spit it out, y’all can have a ten minute conversation in the snow.
God I love this frozen planet.
And Riven jinxed them. Did nobody think to hover up there? Maybe storms were a limitation.
I’m glad Stella not being able to drive is consistent.
I like that most of the girlies got to be useful during the bird mission.
God this library is gorgeous. The scenery in this movie is beautiful.
Oh shit the books haunted! Nice touch with Bloom not being able to read Dominese script. Is Dominese a dead language or is it still spoken, written, and studied? Baby Bloom with Daphne is really cute.
RIP, Riven forgot his meds.
Book said “nope, denied!” Bloom’s being narratively denied because her parents are in Hell.
Damn that’s one Hell of a mosquito to knock Riven’s ass out.
Bloom and co. are chosen ones. Bloom’s last page says fuck all because most of the fandom kill her in Next Gen. Or maybe they’re shielding her from the reboot.
Ah, Riven’s possessed by a harpy. Villainous Malaria strikes again.
Oblivion gates?! Khajiit fears no daedra! Rise of Septims begins, go!
Yay, Mirta fucking a monster up! I love when the teachers are useful. Shit they zeroed Griselda! Glad to hear there really is a storm shelter at this school. Bloom’s hallucinating again. Rip.
Fucking hell, I thought the pixies went home.
Harpy-lady has Mantis blades and that’s pretty sick.
Bloom: I’m gonna go to storm the Oblivion gates now. Time to Dante’s Inferno this bitch.
And there it is, Falspro caused drama again. Kinda.
You know me making Sky deeply religious in my rewrite makes the “we’re going to magic Hell” thing pretty amusing. I had an idea for a scene in my story I’ll likely not include but basically Sky is so overwhelmed his religious trauma activates like a sleeper agent and he starts singing the magic dimension equivalent of the Arky Arky song, hand motions and all. And that’s how they find Oritel. Oritel rounded the corner assuming some poor dude was trapped there with a preschooler and instead finds his best friend’s son having a really embarrassing panic attack. Then they proceed to talk about religion while not noticing who the other guy is for thirty minutes. It’s probably too silly to use but I’m tempted because imagine being reunited with your dad because your boyfriend was going “rise and shine and give god the glory glory” out of stress.
This place looks like Coldharbor.
Wait, where the fuck did Musa come from?! Also pour one out for Riven always having to be corrupted.
I forgot everyone was literally turned to stone. It’s giving Magic of Pegasus actually. Marion chilling out in Soul Calibur is also something I forgot.
One punch! God Harpy-lady was pathetic.
The sword says “Absolutely fucking not, no girls allowed” apparently. I knew there was a reason Sky reminded me of Siegfried.
Woo Daphne’s getting revenge on the cunt-waffles who killed her.
Bloom not being told months earlier Sky got coronated is really dumb, this has bothered me since I was nine. Like this is a major political event, it would literally be in the news. There were probably foreign royal guests like I don’t know FUCKING Stella and Aisha! There’s no reason this had to be a secret other than for pointless drama. I like drama but this plot point is nonsense.
Restored Domino is beautiful but I must admit I wish we could keep some of the snowy landscapes. The architecture is one of my favorite restored features.
OK but that’s fucking brutal, them finding out their eldest is dead mid reunion! Poor Marion and Oritel.
Omg that dark blue dress SLAY! I fucking love this dress on Bloom, y’all.
Hell yeahs all of Bloom’s parents getting along! We love Mike and Vanessa recognition.
Woo Brandon coming in clutch as wingman.
This movie was entertaining, probably better if you aren’t pausing to write for a while. There are some issues I have, mainly the really dumb “Sky can’t tell everyone he was coronated” plot. Most of my other gripes are an extension of the timeline issues from the first 3 seasons in regards to Domino and the Company of Light.
While I generally like 2D better, the animation was gorgeous in this movie. I loved the backgrounds especially but all the characters looked good for the most part.
My biggest petty complaint is the voice acting. None of the voices felt correct to me. It genuinely took me out of the film several times because nobody sounded like themselves to me. That bothered me.
In conclusion: good movie, lots of interesting bits to play with. The Harpy Lady was fucking useless though. I understand why I forgot about her, she was deeply pointless.
While I doubt I’ll follow super closely in my own fanfic, that is not because the movie is bad, it’s creative liberty.
P.S. Puppy is doing much better before you worry. I’ll attach pics.