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Miraculous - Le film (2023)
kinda underwhelming tbh?
As someone who's been following this franchise for the last 6 years, i have to say that i was incredibly excited for this movie. But now i've watched it, and it just felt very... mediocre. The animation was gorgeous and the music for the most part really good, and the soundtrack was pretty great too. But plot wise? It was better than the show, but still kinda bad. I felt like it was really poorly paced, and the lore wasn't quite explained to a proper extent? Like, they talked about the wish, but they never went into proper detail about it, which for people being introduced to the franchise for the first time, might be pretty confusing. As for the ships... I feel like Adrinette didn't have very much screentime. How is anyone supposed to want this ship to sail if they got like 2 minutes of screetime together? But Ladynoir got a lot of screen time, which was cute, but even then felt kinda rushed. Like i get that the movie is supposed to take place over an entire school year, but personally i felt like things went too fast. Adrien's character kinda had me confused too? Like initially he's introduced as lonely and quiet and kinda awkward, but like literally after meeting Ladybug he's cocky and self-confident as Adrien, which didn't really feel right...? Like yeah, Cat Noir is cocky and self-confident, but being Cat is supposed to be Adrien's outlet, his way of expressing himself without getting in trouble by his father, so seeing Adrien be cocky right away just didn't sit right with me. There was no relationship between Chloe and Adrien either, which kinda sucked because Chloe talked about knowing Adrien a couple of times, but not once do we see them with each other. Also, let's talk about Gabriel, because, he was decent for the most part, but I felt like his character was kinda inconsistent at times. Like, one minute he's like "I have nothing left to loose!" and the next he's worrying over Adrien. Like make up your mind, either commit to being the big bad evil, or go back to making clothes, like jeez. Also, not a fan of his redemption. Like if I found out that I had been fighting my father, who had been causing chaos all over my home city and endangering people, under no circumstances would I have hugged him or forgiven him. I would've sent him straight to prison, no questions asked. But I guess Adrien's too nice for that. Plagg was basically non-existent too, like he farted a lot in one scene (which made me VERY uncomfortable) but like that was it, which compared to Marinette and Tikki's relationship... idk it left a lot to be desired. Marinette was generally pretty good, though I just really wish they fleshed out her relationship with Adrien a bit more. Her character arc was pretty good, albeit sometimes it felt like we were going backwards. I wish that they had Cristina Vee sing for Marinette rather than Lou though. It kinda caught me off guard whenever she'd start to sing due to the difference in her speaking and singing voices. Having said that though, I think the movie was still entertaining, and definitely better than the show. Give it a watch.
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (2015)
It's... okay.
When I was younger, I used to absolutely adore this show. But like honestly? This show is a train-wreck. For the most part, there's little to no plot progression, with things only finally starting to move in Season 4.
The characters are very 2-dimensional and boring, for example, Adrien's only character trait is that he's perfect. I'd say the only well written character in this show is Felix, who's only been in like 10 episodes. I feel like the writers have no idea what they wanted to do with the plot, but then people online started posting about a particular theory, they shoehorned that in, and that's annoying.
Speaking of annoying, the protagonist - Marinette is supposed to be a relatable everyman type character, but then she does some really messed up things and gets away with it. Like, she breaks into Adrien's house on several occasions, steals his personal belongings, sniffs his pillow and she attempts to kiss him when he was pretending to be a statue. And then the writers have the nerve to be like "Oh but that's just Marinette being Marinette!" That's not normal behaviour.
And then there's Chloe, who in seasons 2 and 3, began to undergo a redemption arc. Only for the writers to do a full 180 and make her an antagonist again. And then they brought in Zoe to replace her. If this isn't terrible writing, I don't know what is.
But not only is the writing awful, the animation isn't amazing either. Anybody who's watched Miraculous can tell you about the tonnes of animation mistakes and the little to no quality control. For example, the episode Qilin looks so bad I cannot bring myself to watch it. Like, they don't even have eyelashes for half of the episode. I will admit that Qilin is the only episode in the show that looks that bad and unfinished, but still.
I will admit though, the soundtrack is pretty good, especially tracks such as "In the Rain" and "The Last Dance". Even that song Felix sings in season 5 is good (Only the French version, though.) But then there's the abomination that is the Christmas special. Because for whatever reason, they made the Christmas special a musical, and well... the songs aren't good. It doesn't help that Bryce Papenbrook, Adrien's VA, can't sing. They even got Plagg to sing and it's so bad it's funny.
Ultimately, this show isn't very good. And it's honestly such a shame, because it does have a really interesting concept. I hope in like 20 years it gets rebooted and someone competent will be in charge of writing it, because I do really love the ideas this show presents.