My biggest fear when first hearing about this film's production was that it would feel very different from the original show or that it would recycle too much content. Fortunately, this movie has its own story, character arcs, and is really funny! It felt like a direct continuation of the story and the movie was as insane and noisy as the show was.
The animation in the movie was really good and has a lot of moments that felt a lot bigger and more dramatic then anything the show did. However, I will make a small gripe about the color palette sometimes making it hard to focus on the characters on-screen due to everyone having similar hues and values instead of there being a distinct color different between characters and backgrounds. It puts a lot more strain on a viewers eyes to differentiate where does a character begin and a background end.
The story is pretty good for what the movie is and enjoyed the fact that it focused more on Dib's relationship with his father. Though, the conclusion to their arc feels a little underwhelming because all of Earth is destroyed and everyone recognizes that an alien event happened but Professor Membrane still says that it was all in his head. I get it's a joke, but that is still a ton of evidence, especially seeing as how everyone else acknowledges that it happened. It was also nice to see Dib and Zim both recognize themselves as failures.
My main real gripe about the movie is that the first half feels a bit stronger than the second half. Invader Zim has a very particular style of humour that becomes a little formulaic by the time you get to the end of the movie, so a lot of the jokes in the latter half of the movie start to feel a little predictable.
All in all, I really enjoyed it and thought it was a great movie for the series. I know it is unlikely that this show will ever come back due to the production costs and what not, but it was still really fun to finally get the Invader Zim movie that was always promised.
The animation in the movie was really good and has a lot of moments that felt a lot bigger and more dramatic then anything the show did. However, I will make a small gripe about the color palette sometimes making it hard to focus on the characters on-screen due to everyone having similar hues and values instead of there being a distinct color different between characters and backgrounds. It puts a lot more strain on a viewers eyes to differentiate where does a character begin and a background end.
The story is pretty good for what the movie is and enjoyed the fact that it focused more on Dib's relationship with his father. Though, the conclusion to their arc feels a little underwhelming because all of Earth is destroyed and everyone recognizes that an alien event happened but Professor Membrane still says that it was all in his head. I get it's a joke, but that is still a ton of evidence, especially seeing as how everyone else acknowledges that it happened. It was also nice to see Dib and Zim both recognize themselves as failures.
My main real gripe about the movie is that the first half feels a bit stronger than the second half. Invader Zim has a very particular style of humour that becomes a little formulaic by the time you get to the end of the movie, so a lot of the jokes in the latter half of the movie start to feel a little predictable.
All in all, I really enjoyed it and thought it was a great movie for the series. I know it is unlikely that this show will ever come back due to the production costs and what not, but it was still really fun to finally get the Invader Zim movie that was always promised.