Quick take: “This is gross and tastes like boogers.” Actually, having come off of the two season mediocre series, this movie is surprisingly good. You’re not going to find anything ultra profound in the storyline and there are things left a bit unexplained, but compared to the two seasons before, the Strike Witches movie is good. The plot feels appropriate for a war movie and for a feel-good-friendship movie, which I wouldn’t have expected anyone to pull off, let alone Strike Witches. I feel like we're actually at war, which the seasons prior seemed to make feel fake. The movie progresses in such a way thatthe pacing feels really good and natural, making the nearly 2 hour movie go by quicker than expected.

I think art slipped. There’s particularly a scene where blood is overlaid on clothes and it's clear that the clothes move, but the blood doesn’t. It's fairly noticeable. Otherwise, art would be on par with the rest of the series. Music and voice acting (English) were both really well done. I have to specifically give a bump in sound due to the scoring. It was really well done, in my opinion and added to the movie.

Characters are similar to the series, but several have undergone growth between the series and movie, and that was depicted well in my opinion. Everything felt natural and unforced and the ridiculousness of being pantless became an afterthought with all the action on screen.

Overall, I enjoyed the movie and felt it is the best of the main Strike Witches' saga until this point.