KADC

The weak acting, directing, camerawork, choreography, and story combined with massive logic fails and plot inconsistencies make this seem like school kids making a movie in their back yard, yet for some reason it's still enjoyable despite the very rough edges.

There's nothing wrong with the English dub (though I only listened to it for a few minutes for the sake of determining how good or bad it was) but the setting calls for the added authenticity of the original Japanese dialog.

I wouldn't exactly recommend this first of a four movie series it but it's a better way to spend an hour and 15 minutes than scrolling on your phone.

Read the reviews giving glowing praise of "Resurrection" and you'll get an idea of the only kind of audience that will enjoy this movie because, while the plot device sounds interesting, the execution falls flat.

There's no character development arc for the protagonist of this movie despite losing her husband, recovering from critical injuries, gaining powers, and experiencing more should-be significant events that she barely registers. Even the stereotypical close-nit devout rural community that provides the setting for the bulk of this film seems to just take it all in stride. It's as if the director put the entire script on Prozac.

Only one supporting character experiences any kind of growth but the movie glosses over his final transformation and fails to explain the radical choice he ultimately makes. There's a single outburst from a religious fanatic who you expect to become the antagonist but he's never heard from again, some scientific research that comes and goes, and a single interaction with the protagonist's father that provides the only meaningful dialogue in the entire movie.

While this is far from the worst movie I've ever seen it will certainly fall short of most people's expectations despite the glowing reviews from a select few.

They tried to combine equal parts of two cult classic cartoons but they ended up with something that was less than the sum of its parts. While I appreciate the attempt, I think it might have worked better if they instead either dropped Courage, Muriel, and Eustace into the Scooby-verse or "the gang" into the Nowhere-verse ...or maybe there's something inherently incompatible between their respective types of humour ...or maybe they just needed better writers.

Whatever the case, this amalgamation of Courage and Scooby is sort-of amusing but in the end it was only worth watching if you're really desperate for a bit of cartoon nostalgia.