Review of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo

okay so before I start the review, let me warn anyone that hasn't seen this movie: there WILL be spoilers, I can't talk about this movie without spoiling the fuck about it, so there is your warning Evangelion 3.0 is probably the most divisive thing to come out of the Evangelion series. The reaction to this movie was mixed at best. Now, what camp do I fall in? Both. I haven't felt this way about an anime in a LONG time, as I have a strong love-hate relationship with this movie. I think alot of the good parts of this movie are some ofthe best things to come out of Evangelion, hell maybe even anime in general, but then I really REALLY don't like the bad stuff.

I will now talk about the stuff I liked in this movie
- Shinji and Kaworu's relationship was fucking incredible, by far the best part about the movie. Each interaction with them felt like something completely different from the last, you really get a sense as who these two are as people and Kaworu's death scene: holy shit. Kaworu is in general handled here even better than in the original series, where he was already handled really well. His outlook on the world is so fascinating if you ask me he's by FAR the most interesting character in this series. Shinji is also really good in this movie, but I do have problems with the way the other characters treat him, but that will come later. I really liked the ending, it just felt very conclusive for the story. The animation looks pretty good, but there are some stylistic choices I don't like, but that's more of a thing with these rebuild movies as a whole. I like the scene where Shinji basically goes nuts when he finds out he didn't save rei. I guess askua is pretty decent even tho she does some shitty things in this movie. I like what they did with rei at the end of the movie. Misato is awesome, I love the new aesthetic they gave her shes fucking badass. And finally, the sound design is clean

I will now talk about the stuff I didn't like in this movie
- Now ill start off with a complaint that I have that I don't have with the other Evangelion film she appears in, I fucking hate Makinami in this movie, she's just out of place fanservice and being the sorta "funny person" at the thematically wrong time, she's way better in 2.0 but I won't get into that here. Like I said earlier the animation in this movie is pretty good but god damn some of the charter designs are either mediocre or suck ass. I think the story could have used alot more of the rebels, or whatever the fuck Misato calls the anti-NERV thing, they only appear in the first 30 minutes and in the final fight, that's about it, I think to make the movie a bit longer an adding that extra time to seeing what those guys are up to you would have been cool. Rei is an extremely flat emotionless character, and while I did say I liked what they did with her at the end, eh she just felt like a plot device for most of the movie. I brought this up earlier in the review, but Shinji gets shit on so much I feel so bad for him. The only person that he has a good relationship with fucking dies and nobody understands the amount of shit he's been through. Yes, Shinji is FAR from a perfect person: but he's just a kid. the amount of pressure and pain that gets put on him is beyond imaginable, and it annoyed me when Makinami talks fucking down to him as if she's been through nearly as much shit as Shinji did, and the movie doesn't treat this as a bad thing either so its just fucking annoying. Okay I promise this is the last thing I'm gonna whine about: RITSUKO'S HAIR CUT IS WACK AS HELL WTF DID THEY DO TO HER MY GOD

A summary of my thoughts: I think overall, at least right now, I like this movie. I know the stuff I didn't like section was longer than the stuff I did like but the good stuff in this movie is that good and I elaborated on my issues more in that issues and talked more about them because I have more to say. Overall I'm still part of that 3.0+1.0 hype-train so I guess that says something.