Review of Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale

SAO Ordinal Scale is one of the best comedies ever made, especially when you put on the chicken dance for the fight scenes. Its story is god awful and takes itself wayyy too seriously when it is both laughable and embarrassing. The dialogue ranges from ridiculously mundane info dumps to skin-crawlingly humiliating lines to self-important monologues and discussions to my favorite: downright stupid, over the top, and fucking hilarious matters that are supposed to cause tension. SAO has never had good dialogue, and the dialogue here is only a step up from shit. Everythingis too hamfisted to be interesting and if you pay enough attention, you'll know what's going to happen before the movie's over. The villans are caricatures that swapped places with Kirito in the original SAO and have edgy overly-dramatic lines. There's no tension because the main gimmick of this movie, AR, is too poorly implemented for anything to be enthralling.

It's really nice to look at even if the animation sometimes cuts corners and is kind of jarring; then again, it serves no greater purpose, so I wish I was smoking something while watching this; light shows and pretty colors going boom. Would've made the experience better. But the fight choreography is still only passable to sometimes good, which is a letdown.

This is only a slight step up for me above SAO

If you like SAO, you're going to love this

If you think SAO is mediocre, you'll think this is fine.

and, If you think SAO sucks, you'll think that it's a slight improvement...

Maybe. That's just the impression I got from watching this. It's not good, but if you like SAO, I highly recommend it. And if you hate SAO, I highly recommend watching the fight scenes while listening to the chicken dance song; it's hilarious.

There isn't really much to say about SAO ordinal scale. It suffers from the exact same problems that its predecessors did and it only is marginally better than them.

So then, have a nice day and I wish you the best in your SAO endeavors; I know I'm learning a lot about the don'ts of writing.

From, yours, SAOHater9001