Go! Princess Precure: Go! Go!! Grand 3-Part Movie!!! is an interesting idea for a Precure film, dividing it into three smaller story segments that, ultimately, had little of style nor substance to support said interesting idea. The first segment is a five-minute short with no dialogue that has basically nothing to offer whatsoever for anyone over the age of ten. The comedy doesn’t land, while the chibi 3D art style is generic and lacking in anything eye-catching. The second segment composes the meat of the film at 50 minutes, but plays out like an overly long TV episode rather than a short film. I enjoyed thecomedic editing around Aroma’s gags, but everything else was just so very…blah, ideas that we’ve seen done already in the TV series but worse; and with the TV series already having an exceptionally high animation ceiling, there didn’t seem to be any notable quality increase going to the big screen. I guess the bad guy’s transformation at the end was kinda cool, but that’s it. Also, casting Kana Hanazawa as a movie-original princess and then locking her in a tower for 80% of the runtime is just the worst decision that could have been made here.
The final segment clocks in at 20 minutes and answers a question that had been rolling around in my head for a while: what would a full episode of Precure be like with the CG art style of the 2nd ED? The answer: fine. It has the most interesting color design of the three segments by a longshot, but I’m still a little put off by how wide their mouths open when they talk. The story is the most “fine” of the three, but still not anything particularly noteworthy.
It’s a good thing the main TV series is so good. Just continue watching that instead. There’s not a lot for you here even if you’re a diehard fan.