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- 2019
- TV-PG
- Fathom Events
- 1 h 51 m
- 2019
- TV-PG
- Fathom Events
- 1 h 51 m
Summary Thirty years has passed since the appearance of Burnish, a race of flame-wielding mutant beings, who destroyed half of the world with fire. When a new group of aggressive mutants calling themselves "Mad Burnish" appears, the epic battle between Galo Thymos, a new member of the anti-Burnish rescue team "Burning Rescue," and Lio Fotia, the...
Directed By: Hiroyuki Imaishi
Written By: Kazuki Nakashima, Michael Allan Schneider
- 2019
- TV-PG
- Fathom Events
- 1 h 51 m
- 2019
- TV-PG
- Fathom Events
- 1 h 51 m
Promare
76
8.8
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Summary Thirty years has passed since the appearance of Burnish, a race of flame-wielding mutant beings, who destroyed half of the world with fire. When a new group of aggressive mutants calling themselves "Mad Burnish" appears, the epic battle between Galo Thymos, a new member of the anti-Burnish rescue team "Burning Rescue," and Lio Fotia, the...
Directed By: Hiroyuki Imaishi
Written By: Kazuki Nakashima, Michael Allan Schneider
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
76
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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The film is nearly two hours long and passes in what feels like 45 seconds. It is wildly entertaining and blaringly ridiculous, and I want to watch it every night for a week.
Promare's fun characters, stylish animation, and constant escalation make for a great first film from Studio Trigger.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 3,053 User Ratings
8.8
88% Positive
2675 Ratings
2675 Ratings
1% Mixed
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
11% Negative
347 Ratings
347 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 3,053 User Ratings
8.8
88% Positive
2675 Ratings
2675 Ratings
1% Mixed
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
11% Negative
347 Ratings
347 Ratings
Promare is a visually stunning, narratively anemic and predictable blockbuster.
After seeing every leaf on every bush in so many features, it’s fun to sit back and enjoy a film that pushes its look and palette beyond mere reality to create a fantasy world that could exist only in animation.
Think of Promare as a vast feast with too many flavorful offerings to taste in one seating, and where all the intricate details of how everything was put where it is are less important than the overall sensory overload you’ll experience.
There’s a lot of crunch and dazzle here. While the overall tone is pitched to a teen demographic, the creative energy and the execution on display is consistently engaging.
Promare often feels like a maximalist season finale trimmed of any build-up, a climax that’s outstanding to watch yet empty beyond its pure spectacle.
The universal acclaim about this movie is to be understood by the atmosphere it creates. Everywhere your look goes you see bright colors and movements and animations you simply can't understand. Because 'Promare' definitively is aggressive, moving and clocked. Characters are attractive, intelligently connected an funny. You can find differents sub-stories that evolve in parallel with the main plot and those add some content to the characters it concerns without dragging us out of the movie. Far from being perfect, visual effects do bring a lot in 'Promare' and there is something charming when you watch it.
However, story is way too conventional and there is no turn of events unless those who are fundamental to japan-animation movies. I enjoyed to discover the universe in which Promare people live but I was less intrigued by the resolution that you can predict from miles and miles away. Animation is colorful yes but jerky and often really hard to follow. Shapes and colors don't stop hitting your retina so fast you wish you could simply zoom out this mess. The particularity of the animation is that it swings between amazing and cartoon-esque. Some vehicules are gorgeous to watch while faces in overall seem to have been drawn by a 8-year-old kid. The main criticism I have to address to 'Promare' is that I felt we don't show us enough of the past stories: there are a lot of flashbacks and complex connections between characters that are not correctly explained by the movie itself. I suppose I don't have to underline the fact the central protagonist is a stereotype of himslelf: an intelligent, sociable and strong boy/man with a dumb motto and unlikely hairstyle.
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The basis of this movie is very similar to the anime/manga called "fire force" but it's similarities end with the basis. This film is just mindless fun from the beginning to end, with not much story to back it up. the visuals are amazing as you'd expect from trigger, the characters don't really work with the short time they have to develop into fully fledged characters, majority of the time they are fighting with no real time to slow down the movie apart from maybe 1 moment the rest is just building to another fight then another and so on. There isn't anything wrong with doing this, as i say trigger have done a really good job in turning this into a mindlessly fun movie. However when you walk out of the movie only remembering 1 character from the movie, vaguely might i add, it really shows it's a flash in the pan type of movie you probably won't watch again after watching it once.
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This film is a trash fire that despite how bad it is, it is hard to hate. The visuals are interesting, though never really reach spectacular or beautiful levels, just enough eye-popping color and action to maintain something like interest for a couple of hours.
Is it a spoiler if by dropping the name of another movie I feel I could give away the entire plot of the film? Or does that just qualify as pathetic lack of creativity and near plagiarism on the part of the creators? As far as the story itself goes, it's basically a tone-deaf version of Karas with an almost identical plot, similar style of "there are no rules to their powers so don't even try to figure it out" action sequences, but missing the more intimate character-building moments and moral uncertainty that cemented Karas as an anime classic.
There are major problems with this film. If in an action movie the sound of someone getting out their weapon makes the same boom and rattles the screen the same way a building toppling over does, or the same as an entire planet cracking apart at the seams does (that never happens in anime, right?), then there is truly no up-and-down of excitement. It's like a horror movie that never accomplishes to be scary or build tension because every few minutes there's an unnecessary fake out jump scare, making the later deadly jump scares seem less scary. It desensitizes the viewer to what's going on and makes the later moments that are supposed to be the climax of the film just feel like a different color of earlier scenes.
This movie is the exact type of movie/show that people who say they hate anime have seen and is why they hate anime. No kidding, it's mindless. Another major issue this film takes from the worst of the anime industry is having endless powers and metaphysical concepts that have no set limitations or rules that must be followed, meaning they can do anything, anything can happen. There's no tension and no point caring because God could literally come down at any moment and turn everyone into fish, and there's a self-aware scene in this film involving a self-titled "Deus ex Machina" that almost seems to poke fun at the audience for that fact. Poorly paced humor in inappropriate moments soils the film. The movie is about 80% expository dialogue, where despite the lack of actual limitations to the film's concepts, characters rattle on about them for entire scenes, and the film's main character even falls asleep listening to such conversations, as a joke. I can't see how it's funny when in actuality I felt just as bored listening. Is this a deconstruction of its genre or just a self-aware film that knows you'll pay to see some half-assed eye candy even if it's plotless and ridiculous? Take away this film's color palette and it would be mediocre in every sense of the word. The colorist deserves half this film's profits. The musicians deserve the other half.
The music is great, the characters are fun and spirited enough that it's hard to hate them, even though they are all extremely cliche and have zero depth. There are moments the visuals feel innovative, but they are very brief. There are as many moments where the film is visually ugly and looks like Minecraft.
I honestly cannot recommend this film to anyone aside from maybe the 8-12 year old age range, unless you just want some mindless flashy images to be shown for a couple hours. But there are films that do that and actually have a compelling story, message, and characters, so if you ask me, life's too short for garbage like Promare. I couldn't wait for it to end, but if it had been 20 minutes shorter I might have been able to forgive some of its major flaws and enjoy it as popcorn fodder. 90 minutes is about the cap for my tolerance for that, though. That said, nothing short of a total rewrite could save this from being a throwaway film and another nail in the coffin for expanding anime to a wider audience. I would be happy if Japan never made another film like this, but I'm sure they'll continue to churn one out every weekend.
If you want an anime that handles the same social themes with a thousand times more brains, depth, and nuance, check out Terror in Resonance or Darker than Black (minus it's horrible sequel series that destroys everything), or probably any other anime, seriously. If you want similar action done better, even Advent Children and Karas, which arguably set the tone for this style and created many of the camera innovations of it, hold up better after all these years.
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Awards
IGN Summer Movie Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Anime Trending Awards
• 2 Nominations
Annie Awards
• 1 Nomination
