Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto-Memory Doll starts out nicely, with crisp animation and our titular character arriving at a ladies' school to become a girl's personal teacher and handmaiden.
As they spend time with each other, they become close and open up to each other. This is very sweet, and I genuinely liked this part, but I also felt they threw Violet's character growth from the series out of the window by making her stiff all over again.
What I also didn't like was the weak storyline. It doesn't feel like one cohesive plot, rather it feels like three separate episodes played back-to-back for 1,5 hours. The movie starts out strongly with Violet and Isabella gradually warming up to each other, but after the debutante ball Isabella had been trained for (about 40 minutes in) the movie begins to lose its pacing and storyline quality. The story's pacing slows to a near halt as we are expected to love a newly introduced character who keeps sticking around. I found myself becoming truly bored with this film until it was suddenly over.
All in all, I don't think this is worth watching.
As they spend time with each other, they become close and open up to each other. This is very sweet, and I genuinely liked this part, but I also felt they threw Violet's character growth from the series out of the window by making her stiff all over again.
What I also didn't like was the weak storyline. It doesn't feel like one cohesive plot, rather it feels like three separate episodes played back-to-back for 1,5 hours. The movie starts out strongly with Violet and Isabella gradually warming up to each other, but after the debutante ball Isabella had been trained for (about 40 minutes in) the movie begins to lose its pacing and storyline quality. The story's pacing slows to a near halt as we are expected to love a newly introduced character who keeps sticking around. I found myself becoming truly bored with this film until it was suddenly over.
All in all, I don't think this is worth watching.