Have you ever thinking to kill your homeroom teacher back then? Maybe this crazy fantasy flashed at least once in every junior high schooler's head. But, how about you got to kill your homeroom teacher to save the world? This movie brings up your crazy fantasy into real!
The story begins in 3-E class where the worst third year students of Kunugigaoka Junior High school been gathered. There, a yellow octopus-like creature suddenly shows up as their homeroom teacher. For your information, this yellow being with a smiley-face emoticon for a head is incredibly strong and fast and he is going to destroy the earth in one year unless someone can stop him. In effort to make things not one-sided, he makes a deal with the governments to teach 3-E class students and not kill them until they graduate. Because the army can do nothing about it, the government of Japan assigns the students of class E with a secret mission to assassinate the yellow creature known as Koro-sensei (from korosenai = unkillable and sensei = teacher).
As you can expect from a manga-to-movie adaptation, this movie compress about 75 manga chapters, or one full anime season, into 110 minutes. Due to this, most of the character introduction is skimmed over and only focused on the major characters. Some settings also have been changed and are different from the manga.
About the casting, this movie took an advantage by lining the cast with current Japan teens idols. The movie gave us almost the same character's psychological side but changed the character in more realistic looks.
The movie protagonist, Nagisa Shiota is played by Ryosuke Yamada. Although Yamada can draw more attention from the female audience, he actually acting differently compared to the original Nagisa from the manga. Here, Nagisa looks timid, innocent, and observant. In the original source, Nagisa's look is tightly connected with his background story. If there is a sequel, I like to see how they overcome this if they do.
The genius but violent character, Karma Akabane is played by Masaki Suda. Suda played well as the devilish Karma with his haughty character.
The class' sexy Russian assassin / English teacher, Irina Jelavic is played by Kang Ji-Young. Kang does a good job as the seductive temptress.
I am really enjoying this movie. It is fun to watch the humor and got hit with its serious drama. The action scenes are not bad after all. The film director, Eiichiro Hasumi tried his best to hit as many plot points and stick close to the source material. Every scenes that involve Koro-sensei are entertaining, especially when he gives his iconic laughter. There are also moral values too like respecting each other, we can be better than other people thought about us, etc.
In the scale of 1 to 5, I will give this movie 3,4! Let's see what's other people think about this movie :
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What a nice review!
BalasHapusI'd love to watch this later ^^
Thanks! :D
HapusYes, if you love fantasy movie, you should try this one!