Audience reviews
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bob-weebington
I've watched this three times and it's one of those films that looks boring and generic, but actually turns out to be pretty good.
The basic plot of needing to escort a princess really far away through enemy territory in a tiny airplane on a secret mission makes the early scenes very compelling.
Several action scenes later, they're stranded on an island and doing survival things.
Despite the slowness of this part compared to the first section, I still found the film enjoyable to watch.
If you're looking for good films and have run out of Ghibli and Shinkai films, this one does pretty well in a pinch.
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I had watched so many anime make the mistake of rushing plot, character development and chemistry, I was starting believe no one in the anime industry knows how to write human. Although the chemistry and dialogues between The Princess and The Pilot aren't exactly realistic or excellent, it is still a breath of fresh air amongst the gigantic amount of massacred scriptwriting from the anime industry, even more so after a decade.
For a movie, TP&TP has an extremely well done pacing. Its plot is very short and its main setting is the sea, which is vast and empty. So you may be bored if you're looking for some exciting plot with turns and twists. TP&TP is straight as an arrow, and focuses all around developing the two main characters while they're travelling together alone across the vast and e…
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I want every showrunner of something built around a man and a woman alone together to ask one simple question of it.
"Whose journey is this?"
If it's the man's journey, go nuts.
If it's the woman's journey and the important parts default to the man's POV, that's ALWAYS boring.
In this, literally, the woman (a previously sheltered princess) is stranded on an island with the man unconscious because of his battle injuries... Cut to... The man waking up to looking at her breasts because she's wearing a crop top now. AND SHE CUT HER LONG HAIR SHORT OFF-SCREEN. WHAT.
I swear to God, if you deny me the opportunity to watch the sheltered girl cut her long hair to symbolize how far she's come on her adventure, that's an instant 4. You can do no better. Go home.
I had no hopes for this movie a…
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Everything in it was a masterpiece, I don't get it. Why isn't this that popular, this should become a classic. This movie doesn't need a part 2. (Spoilers ahead)
The ending is pretty good to be honest to the point I can't point out how it's good. It's just good! Charles's fate was unknown, Fana's ending was her sacrificing herself for her kingdom. Charles's fate was the most interesting, his records was gone. Did they found out he was secretly in love with the princess so he was erased? We don't know, he might just be the one who erased his records, he was a vigilant.
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It was a great movie with fantastic character development and overcoming "discrimination" however the ending, the goddam ending. I know this is a different universe and it had to be "realistic" so the princess had to go marry the idiot prince. This is not what the audience is here for, we are here for the romance. Great piece but the ending was not something I enjoyed and to those who are interested in the romance aspect of the movie be ready to be disappointed.
This movie had great art (for when it was drawn) , fantastic development, and meaning behind it all however the ending just made me regret investing my emotions into the characters.
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When it comes to movies, one of the biggest problems they suffer from is trying to be too epic. That's not to say movies can't be epic, and thinking big is a great way to make a conflict interesting. But some stories don't have any business trying to do that or go in that direction. But there are some movies that perfectly understand this, managing to strike the perfect balance between its story, characters, and conflict, knowing what to focus on and what isn't important. The Princess and the Pilot, or its Japanese title, To Aru Hikuushi e no Tsuioku, translated as Recollections of a Certain Pilot, flew under the radar when it first aired in 2011. I didn't watch it when it first came out because I thought it was a spin-off title from the Certain Magical Index franchise, and I avoided the I…
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Romance is my favorite genre, so when I saw that tag for this movie it was an instant addition to my watch list. A few months later I finally watched it and let me say what a flight! Let me begin with the basics. This is a slow pace, light action, romantic movie. For those who get bored with slower pace movies/series than this might not be the best for you. The Animation is just beautiful. I wouldn’t call it Makoto Shinakai or Hayao Miyazaki beautiful, but I would say that it comes in real close. I will give plot spoilers down below.
Story: 8/10
The story is very basic, but not like most movies I’ve seen.
Art: 9/10
The art is excellent, beautiful scenery throughout the movie.
Sound: 8/10
Very pretty and mellow.
Characters: 9/10
The characters have nice detail to their personalit…
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I haven't written a review before since there was no reason to because of the abundance of them already but this show just takes the cake for me so I decided to write one. As you can see by the rating I have given this show, I find myself extremely disappointed. I was honestly disappointed with the character development that seemed to be going somewhere only for it to just disappear as if it never happened. The first thing I want to warn is that it is no traditional romance so if that is what you like, don't watch the Movie. The name and the 'romance' tag are clickbait but may be subjective to some so read it as you please.
Story-wise, it has a clear and straight-forward plot that is very well explained in the synopsis. The reason I gave the story a 6/10 was because of the abundance of p…
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I haven't really watched many anime movies, since I'm more into series anime. (FYI: There is an anime based in the same universe but in a different time period, named Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta).
Romantic films like these are very enjoyable in my opinion, and those that are based on certain themes like forbidden love make it all the more. I definitely enjoyed having something as simple as flying across a large expanse of water develop and blossom into the beautiful film that is Toaru Hikuushi e no Tsuioku.
Charles Karino, a "lowlife bestado" (someone born of mixed blood) is tasked with an important mission; a treacherous flight across enemy territory, harboring a future princess; Juana del Moral, who is to be married off to a Levamme prince.
The story, while not being something overly dram…
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The Princess and the Pilot
Now this is a tale to tell around a campfire.
The girl: A princess of the great noble house is offered to a handsome royal prince as a sign of peace. That prince accepts her offer of marriage and tells her that he will receive her within a set amount of years. The princess accepts.
WAR RAGES ON
The princess must be received in order to alleviate the matter of war, but there is not way of reaching the foreign country safely.
The man: A pilot in the Airforces who grew up in the rough streets, yet has pushed himself to become the top pilot of his division. He is selected to escort the princess on a solo mission across enemy lines and deliver her safely to her prince. This man accepts.
Caught between enemy lines, the man learns that a search party is out to fi…
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This movie is a rather simple and relaxing one, yet it manages to keep us anticipating the story’s progression. Rolling around the idea of social status and race, it’s basically bringing Japanese customs to an imaginary setting of the Mediterranean in the 1940s. Because of the timeline, World War 2 and dieselpunk fans might be excited to see the military uniforms and several historically-inspired vehicles in this movie. There is J7W Shinden, Kongou-class fast battleship, Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser, and even the main airplane (Santa Cruz) resembles N1K Shiden and B7A Ryuusei but with twin tails.
Character-wise, this film does really well with the secondary characters’ role that is to shape the two main characters' world, reality and problem. Both Juana and Charles struggle between…
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A lovely but quite overrated film I dare say, BUT still a pleasant composition.
While there were many positive things about it, such as the art, bits of action, characters, just to name a few, it lacked the most important thing for a film - namely, a plot. There was a promising, although slow start, then it proceeded to the main point or idea, then all of a sudden it was all over, no satisfying end, explanation or development whatsoever. The idea is so simple that it could have been squeezed into a 30-40 min episode.
That said, I did enjoy watching it, slow pace, virtually no development, rushed ending are not necessarily always bad things. For me there was value in seeing it and although far from perfect, it was surely different from your usual setting and development. While I do prefer…
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Toaru Hikuushi e no Tsuioku titled "The Princess and the Pilot" in English is a 2011 Japanese film, based on the fantasy light novel of the same name by Koroku Inumura.
The story follows a beautiful daughter of a noble family, who was proposed by the prince of a foreign country and as they were at war, the marriage was postponed until the war ends, but there was threat to the future princess so it was decided to send her to the prince ,meanwhile a young pilot who was subjected to racism due to his half blood from childhood, was bestowed with the mission to protect the princess and fly her over 12,000 kilometers of enemy water to the prince.
The music was pretty good while the animation and voice acting turn out to be pretty mediocre,which make me feel like I was watching a anime ser…
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The title of the movie kind of gives away what this movie is about, there's a princess and an air force pilot that fall in love, this is a classic archetype that it is at the core of any great love story. However, this movie really demonstrates the best way to tell a love story. What can make emotional movies like this difficult to make is that because they're only 90 minutes long the writers have less time to create a connection with the characters and the viewer, but this movie I believe really does a fantastic job of showing how the love between the two main characters was born. The main characters in this movie aren't "star crossed lovers", they each bring out the better qualities of the other which is really the corner stone of love and strengthens the connection that the characters h…
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The Princess and the Pilot. The first time I read that, I read 'pilot' as 'pauper' due to... er, various reasons. Wow I've only started and I'm already butchering the title.
Summary: The Levamme Empire and the Amatsukami Imperium have been engaged in battle for countless years. During this time, the Levamme Prince proposes to the daughter of the del Moral family, Juana del Mora. The Prince promises their marriage a year after; once he has ended the war. Unfortunately, the Amatsukami Imperium caught wind of this and assaulted the del Moral manor aiming for Juana's life. As a last resort, the San Maltilia sends Charles Karino, an ace pilot with blood of both a Levamme and an Amatsukami to bring Juana to her fiancee. And so begins the Princess and the Pilot's journey.
Story 8/10: The story…
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What to say about this movie. It at once delighted me with a well paced story and gorgeous dogfights. The growth of our two characters was detailed in the moments of downtime. I was sucked in by its premise, and treated to the most superbly done forbidden romance that I've seen in awhile. If my score confuses you, this film committed one cardinal sin, however. It resolved nothing. The story it was telling was certainly not finished, and frankly the ending epilogue was insulting. Understand something. If the theme of the movie was nationalist racist bigotry meant to cultivate that turn of the century feeling, we should have spent the movie on that. One downtrodden pilot and a pampered princess cannot carry that story arc unless you make it clear. The princess didn't have to overcome that bo…
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It is the unfortunate case that I found this movie to be a dreadful bore. My biggest gripe with this movie is the sheer number of cliches. It felt as if the screenwriters compiled a list of common cliches used in anime, and used them all. It made the movie too predictable and laughable at best. There were moments when I joked with my friend that X would happen (jokingly), thinking it would never happen, and it actually did.
The movie had difficulties focusing on the main characters; we were introduced to a variety of characters that came off as being important, but than never appeared again. The reasoning behind the choices made do not seem realistic b any stretch of the imagination, and the fact that someone whom had no real experience flying, only flew in a simulator, and could barely b…
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I gave this movie a 7 very reluctantly, I mean if I judge it subjectively I'd say I enjoyed it a lot even though the premise of the story is fairly straightforward, Pilot transports Princess, both develop feelings for each other, I mean come on you knew that as soon as you read the title.
The art is nicely done, everything looks pristine especially the horizon during the scenes that are set in the air, the character designs are detailed and the environments look stellar.
The soundtrack never felt out of place, we were even given the usual "song/melody" that turns out to have some significance to both main characters, a bit macross-esque and incredibly cheesy, in fact this movie's plot is incredibly cheesy I mean I feel bad about marking it down because of this but this is something we'…
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Tales of forbidden love are common, yet we are constantly drawn to them and empathizing with their characters. Perhaps it is borne from a desire to experience something so simple yet beautiful. Or perhaps it is to remind ourselves of how lucky we are to be able to love without having the world turn against us. "Toaru Hikuushi e no Tsuioku", or "The Princess and the Pilot", can do both of those.
It was originally published as a single volume light novel in 2008 and was considered a runaway success. Although Inumura Koroku was already writing a different novel series at the time, this novel became his breakthrough and most well-known work. Inumura left such an impression on his readers that the novel reached tenth place in the annual "Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!", or "This Light Novel is Ama…
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I absolutely loved it. This movie perfectly shows how you can take something really basic and simple and make it into something complete and special. There aren't many stories on piloting, but there are plenty on flying and wars. Of course, with the theme of flying and war comes the theme of freedom, and when you put a woman and a man together, you get romance. This movie isn't any different in those basic ideas, so if you are looking for a genre breaking show, this isn't the right one for you. However, don't skip it just because it's conventional.
This didn't bore me at all, and in fact, it's so much more refreshing than most of the anime aired these days. If you are like me, who need occasional breaks from tsundere and yandere girls and harem loving boys, come and watch this please. I…
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