Movie Review: Fairy Tail - The Maiden of the Phoenix

As a Fairy Tail fan, I'm proud to say that in this movie, it has successfully managed to bring across (once again), the true meaning of friends, and how important it is to have important and trustworthy friends by your side like it always has.

However, as much as I enjoyed this film, there were many parts where I thought were lacking. For one, the colouring for the animation wasn't really well done. Lucy especially, her hair colour was intolerable, but I guess that's one minor thing you can overlook if you were to rate the overall film. Animation was pretty well done and the plot was interesting somehow.

What I really didn't enjoy about the film was the sudden appearance of the evil guild and the lack of background given to them. They just appeared like POOF and disappeared like POOF. All we knew was that the leader of the guild wanted immortality, betrayed the narcissistic prince and tried to get a little of the phoenix's blood. I never knew the reason why he wanted it though. I thought if they could have added in that part, it would have made the movie slightly more understandable and probably even more touching. The time limit could have prevented them from adding in these details as well. As for the main character this time, Eclair, I bet some of us were rather confused when we first saw her. I bet most of the viewers thought that it all happened within the same time period. And in the end, she had already walked the Earth for 400 years - which brings us back to the question - Is Fiore that big? Did she need 400 years to make it to Magnolia and seek help? And the villians sure took a long time to start searching for that stone, and all it took was less than a week for the evil guild to hunt the girl down. Another really confusing thing about the plot was they never really explained what type of magic the members of the evil guild possessed. Dist, the leader probably had telekinesis, I'm not sure. The gun guy had machine guns. And the only female of the group could re-equip but also could 'neutralize' (I'm not sure) magic? All these weren't made clear to the viewers. I guess they could have done better in this part. As for the main Fairy Tail members, Natsu didn't have enough screen time to display more of his fighting spirit and Gray amazingly had a lot of screen time as compared to Natsu (not forgetting, Juvia as well). Erza's battle scenes were boring if I were to be honest and the only (useful) Celestial spirit Lucy summoned in the whole movie was Loke (for less than 20 seconds) and he never appeared after that. Throughout the whole movie, Lucy was just an emotional wreck and it wasn't exactly enjoyable since she is after all the main character. I liked how Makarov had a decisive role in the flim though, because I didn't expect that. More like, I expected Natsu to just totally kick that phoenix's ass and burn it alive. But sadly, he didn't.

Overall, the film was enjoyable, and I don't regret watching it one bit xD

Wan Xin