Promare

Name: Promare
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Released: September 17, 2019
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Ami Koshimizu, Arata Furuta, Billy Kametz, Crispin Freeman, John Eric Bentley

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GKIDS | Release Date: September 17, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Ami Koshimizu, Arata Furuta, Billy Kametz, Crispin Freeman, John Eric Bentley, Johnny Yong Bosch, Katsuyuki Konishi, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kendô Kobayashi, Masato Sakai, Melissa Fahn, Neil Kaplan, Nobuyuki Hiyama, Rikiya Koyama, Steve Blum, Taiten Kusunoki, Tetsu Inada

Summary: Thirty years has passed since the appearance of Burnish, a race of flame-wielding mutant beings, who destroyed half of the world with fire. When a new group of aggressive mutants calling themselves "Mad Burnish" appears, the epic battle between Galo Thymos, a new member of the anti-Burnish rescue team "Burning Rescue," and Lio Fotia, theThirty years has passed since the appearance of Burnish, a race of flame-wielding mutant beings, who destroyed half of the world with fire. When a new group of aggressive mutants calling themselves "Mad Burnish" appears, the epic battle between Galo Thymos, a new member of the anti-Burnish rescue team "Burning Rescue," and Lio Fotia, the leader of "Mad Burnish" begins.… Expand

Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Comedy, Animation

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 111 min

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Carlos Aguilar

Jul 10, 2019

Think of Promare as a vast feast with too many flavorful offerings to taste in one seating, and where all the intricate details of how everything was put where it is are less important than the overall sensory overload you’ll experience. Read full review

The Telegraph Robbie Collin

Nov 8, 2019

The film is nearly two hours long and passes in what feels like 45 seconds. It is wildly entertaining and blaringly ridiculous, and I want to watch it every night for a week. Read full review

Charles Solomon

Sep 19, 2019

After seeing every leaf on every bush in so many features, it’s fun to sit back and enjoy a film that pushes its look and palette beyond mere reality to create a fantasy world that could exist only in animation. Read full review

Valerie Complex

Sep 20, 2019

Every bit as loud and ambitious as one might expect from a visual artist with such a hyperactive imagination, sci-fi action-adventure Promare checks all the conventional anime boxes — post-apocalyptic setting, mecha suits and plenty of fan service — but it’s still an exciting watch. Read full review

Miranda Sanchez

Sep 25, 2019

Promare's fun characters, stylish animation, and constant escalation make for a great first film from Studio Trigger. Read full review

The Film Stage Eli Friedberg

May 24, 2021

This is Imaishi’s world. Every cut, gesture, and line of dialogue here is punctuated by maximum comic book-style exclamation points. Every spectacular action feat is escalated several different times over the top, crossing from coolness through self-parody and back to coolness in a way that’s bound to make the attention-deficient among us stand up and cheer. Read full review

Steven Scaife

Sep 17, 2019

Promare often feels like a maximalist season finale trimmed of any build-up, a climax that’s outstanding to watch yet empty beyond its pure spectacle. Read full review

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Saltyhalt

Jul 19, 2020

Great movie. The story was quite entertaining and the music had me wanting to start singing along. 10/10

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Dungeon00X

Sep 20, 2019

Promare is the most ambitious animated film of the year. It may not win any awards, but it was so much fun to watch.

2 of 6 users found this helpful24

pokley

Jun 28, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. That scene where Lio and Galo kissed is genuinely the greatest moment in Anime history. Love that green-haired twink~

Soundtrack is pretty cool too.… Expand

12 of 20 users found this helpful128

umaumai

May 7, 2020

If you are a fan of anime or just curious I would highly recommend watching Promare. This is contemporary anime at it’s peak. While it’s very heavy handed in it’s message, very heavy handed, it delivers an absolutely wild story set against some great visuals with some amazing actionIf you are a fan of anime or just curious I would highly recommend watching Promare. This is contemporary anime at it’s peak. While it’s very heavy handed in it’s message, very heavy handed, it delivers an absolutely wild story set against some great visuals with some amazing action sequences - and it all comes together as one of the most fun and exhilarating anime films I’ve seen in a long while. With an art direction that is highly stylized it’s something suitable and fun for most ages, however because it is so stylized it can be hard to make out everything that’s happening during the fast action sequences. I would say that the ratings across the board from critics to users alike are pretty spot on here. For me, the only reason I gave it an 8 and not a 9 is that, though it is a wild and crazy not so straight forward story, it follows what I can only call “fan service” logic and dialogue to solve and move all the plot devices for every situation. Still, I think that’s what makes it so great and I’m not sure what I could have asked for instead.… Expand

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Akuza

Feb 18, 2020

The basis of this movie is very similar to the anime/manga called "fire force" but it's similarities end with the basis. This film is just mindless fun from the beginning to end, with not much story to back it up. the visuals are amazing as you'd expect from trigger, the characters don'tThe basis of this movie is very similar to the anime/manga called "fire force" but it's similarities end with the basis. This film is just mindless fun from the beginning to end, with not much story to back it up. the visuals are amazing as you'd expect from trigger, the characters don't really work with the short time they have to develop into fully fledged characters, majority of the time they are fighting with no real time to slow down the movie apart from maybe 1 moment the rest is just building to another fight then another and so on. There isn't anything wrong with doing this, as i say trigger have done a really good job in turning this into a mindlessly fun movie. However when you walk out of the movie only remembering 1 character from the movie, vaguely might i add, it really shows it's a flash in the pan type of movie you probably won't watch again after watching it once.… Expand

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RedPanda_94

Jul 20, 2020

I really cant believe this thing has recieved so many praise by everyone, being by far the most mediocre product Trigger has released since Franxx, yes, the technical aspect of the movie is outstanding, and it shows how much can the studio accomplish with proper resources and time, but theI really cant believe this thing has recieved so many praise by everyone, being by far the most mediocre product Trigger has released since Franxx, yes, the technical aspect of the movie is outstanding, and it shows how much can the studio accomplish with proper resources and time, but the writing... god is the writing bad in this movie. There is absolutely zero character development, Galo is especially guilty of this, his arc is a goddam circle, well, more like a Q, but it ends up right at the beginning having learned nothing in the entire movie. The twist, what twist? you mean the one you can see throught right at the beggining? The secondary characters are just fill in, they have 1 personality trait and barely anything more, they act like cardboard cutouts to fill an scene while something is happening, you legit can't remember any of their names after the first watch cause they're that bland and uninteresting. The ending is complete doodoo, no spoiler but there is no moral of the story in here, a story about the pretty obvious "racial" struggle between two parties could have left such a powerful message to todays society with all that has been happening in the past years but noooope, no message at all.
Aight let's adress the elephant in the room, i watched this movie 'cause a friend sold me that there are actually gay characters in here, let me tell you now, there aren't. I was really interested on seeing an actual big studio telling a story with openly homosexual characters knowing how slow Japan is moving in regards to LGBT rights... well this is pretty much just some Fujoshi bait **** the "gay" moment in the movie is introduced as barely more than "space magic rcp", enough to sell a ****ton of merch and have an army of girls losing their **** about the two characters, but clearly not openly gay 'cause they don't want to alienate no one on their home country since is that box office and critics the one that determinates if they get more work.
TL:DR on a technical aspect the movie is really good, but the very predictable story, forgettable secondary characters and a null development of the main ones leaves this as barely more than a mediocre movie to kill some time
PD: The OST by Hiroyuki Sawano is godlike as usual… Expand

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Feb 17, 2022

This film is a trash fire that despite how bad it is, it is hard to hate. The visuals are interesting, though never really reach spectacular or beautiful levels, just enough eye-popping color and action to maintain something like interest for a couple of hours

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