Review of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
Evangelion 3.33: You Can (Not) Fuck Up More. Alternative Title: Retconing For Dummies. It really is a shame tho, because they actually had it. They had everything figured out from start to finish in the vein of the first two movies. The preview in the second movie (for the third) already told you what to expect, where the overall story was heading and that the third impact definitely DID NOT happen; just like the second movie told you before that it DID NOT happen (but I will get to that in a minute)! So what happend now is this: Our poor,poor, poor Anno who blaims allhis failures on his alleged Depression, rewrote the complete plot for the third movie without hesitation and without even thinking once about the fact that the whole blueprint for the whole rebuild series was already made up and that rewriting the third movie basically means to completley retcon the first two movies, which already laced the foundation for the further installments. But Anno gave a rats ass about none of that and just went on with materializing his feverdream that he had before, where nothing makes sense. By the way Anno doesn't really have depressions. He is just incompetent and degenrated, not depressed,because people who are really heavily depressed can't bring up the ambitions nor the willpower to do more than they actually need, yet alone create a whole new script when a first one was already completed, thus not only createing more present effort and manhours but also a lot more future effort and manhours (and money) because now everything needs to be animated and melodized from scratch! I hate when people use other peoples misfortune as an excuse for their own incompetence. But back to the movie at hand. So apparantly according to Anno's feverdream, which served as the script, the third impact happened all of a sudden, even tho we all saw it NOT HAPPENING in the second movie! And with that premiss alone, the whole foundation and all the build up that the first two movies created, are destroyed and thus the movies beeing nullified. Congratulation, you played yourself! But, as this wasn't enough, Annos feverdream fails to explain why the third impact in this alternate universe happend then. Why? How? What happend right after that? Who gives a damn right, as long as there is fAnsERvIcE! The only thing that is being said is that now all of a sudden we are 14 years in the future, NERV fights the rebel alliance WILLE and everyone hates Shinji...no rhyme, no reason...just BECAUSE, thats why...This movie can't even explain to his audience the eDgY lingo they so desperatley try to establish in order to sound sophisticated. "Lillin" huh?..movie doesn't come out and say what it is, so I did a quick research. Apparently that term basically translates to "The Man". So "the Man" punished Shinji! The Man put the collar on him! The Man is unable to retrieve Shinji and Askua because the L-Barrier-Density is too high in the desert..ok, yeah that makes sense I guess *Carl from ATHF voice*. But the Man always tries to make the world adapt to him not the other way around, and therefor the world artifically evolves itself, which leads to giant human mouths with teeth on the surface of the earth and hands sticking outta the ground? C'mon Anno, I know your feverdream wasn't THAT retarded..Or the Man piloted the holy Mark 06 Unit even tho it was a fusion of the third angel and an Eva, which was piloted exclusivley by Kowaru, the first angel himself? Oh right, I forgot, we retconing everything the last movies told us, my bad.
I could go on and on about literally EVERY SECOND of the movie not making sense, not even on their own, because even with the first 2 movies completly nullified, the third movie doesn't even make sense on its own and fails to tell any kind of story whatsoever. But the Bottom-Line here is: this movie (the way it is) never had a right to exist in the first place, because the direction of all movies was clear since the first one in 2007. So making it a pile of incoherent trash-nonsense halfwaytrough is unacceptable and inexcusable. This movie annhiliated every chance of decency that the rebuild series as a whole ever had.