Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Cosmos Movie

I actually watched this back in August with bells on and just forgot to post here because I really enjoyed this two part movie event. Stars is not my favorite Sailoor Moon arc, but I don't dislike it. I think that Takeuchi really piled on the drama for this arc and wanted to bring us something different than previous arcs in the series. Once again, I think that the SMC team really did a good job with the manga material and made things engaging and fun to revisit. It reminded me of everything I enjoy about Sailor Moon. The characters, the stakes, and the romance. ...

All of my qualms with this adaptation were qualms I carry over from being a fan of the manga. While I really love that Sailor Moon is pushed to her limits, at times the story feels a little slow and sometimes entrenched within itself. However, the finale makes up for it and it was nice to see such care and respect given to the source material once again.

If you enjoyed the previous offerings in the Sailor Moon Crystal adaptation of the manga, then you will enjoy this too. If you prefer the original anime to the manga, then this might be disappointing. I had a lot of fun and I'll probably watch it again sometime when I feel like doing an SMC rewatch in the future.

eh
first half was incredibly fast paced and a bit unpleasant to sit through, and if i wasnt aware of the series at all, i wouldve dropped it. 2nd half was very good, but honestly watching this all made me wish that it was a tv series instead of a movie. The buildup to that final fight with Chaos would've been incredible.
All in all, as a long time sailor moon fan, the journey of watching the Crystal reboot since 2014 has been a very bumpy ride. I guess i'm glad the manga finally got an adaptation, but I wish Toei could've treated it with more care ... and dignity than it actually got.
If you're a long time fan, i'd recommend watching, but if you're new to the sailor moon franchise you'll be incredibly lost and you'll probably have an easier time getting into it by just reading the manga (if you want all the dark goodness without a weirdly done animation adaptation) or diving into the 90s anime and getting a fun campy experience.

Fascinating as watching a Glenn Danzig movie like Verotika or Death Rider in the House of Vampires can be, meaning that this badly animated and awfully "written" movie is just a glorious, laughable trainwreck of epic proportions which only redeeming factor (the reason why I didn't give this a 1 but a 2) is that Kotono Mitsuishi IS Usagi Tsukino and always will be, no matter the quality of the material she's voicing or not. For the rest, if you have a particular fetish for the incomprehensible mess of the Sailor Moon terrible manga in of "lore" or "character development" (the worst parts of ... this turd are all directly adapted from the unreadable on all fronts manga) and you think some sparse fanservice from the 90's animated life changing experience is enough to satiate your needs to when the IP - of which appeal clearly hack Naoko Takeuchi, the one overseeing the entire remake fiasco project in person, had no understanding whatsoever of sorts - actually had an impact for people all around the world even years after the series ended (I myself became a moonie only a few years ago thanks to the anime), you might find this up your alley. If you don't, leave this alone without regrets. Hell, even if you're into the Super Sentais (the ones from which the entirety of the IP spawned in the first place together with the magical girls) and tokusatsus in general, leave this thing alone with no regrets whatsoever and go straight to watch the real japanese-made superheroics cosmos, Ultraman Cosmos. You won't miss anything.