Wasn't planning on this review but considering what's going on here right now, it's more special than you think.
The movie starts with a fairy named Morgan Le Fay attempting to release a god known as Celestin who was the mentor of Belldandy, upon reuniting with the former mentor, Celestin infects Belldandy with a virus in an attempt to hack the Yggdrasil goddess system in an attempt to bring down heaven, this causes Belldandy to lose her memories of Keiichi with much of the film attempting to retrieve Belldandy's memories while Morgan attempts to prevent it.
Desperate to succeed, Celestin resorts to taking over Keiichi's body in order to trigger the full collapse of heaven, it's only when Belldandy saves Celestin from Gungnir that he has a change of heart as the sister goddesses unit in song to restore the World Tree in a glorious finale of song.
The film is a reminder of how poor a character Belldandy is as she seems to keep getting dragged into heavenly conflicts, the film is needlessly dramatic as Belldandy is pulled into each scenario at rapid pace, it's messy and treads ground that the OVA already covered.
On the plus side the finale more than makes up for the lacklustre story with some epic scale in animation.
Dubbing is fine I guess, Urd is always good, Celestin sells his performance, Belldandy is poor.
Final Verdict: It never really fixes the problems the OVA had with it's story, plot and characters but it does pull it together for the finale.
The reason I reviewed this, because the day this film aired, theOtaku was born, 22 years later it still continues to be a place that I can express my thoughts on anime, I can only thank you for allowing me to keep writing.
Happy Birthday theOtaku!
