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  YOSH~! Well, I'm stuck in a hole, so let's get this review under-way ^___^

Firstly, can I just say how excited I was when I heard there was going to be an FT movie? I don't follow any big manga/anime series outside FT, so this was sorta like my first big anime movie event X3 Did I like it? Well, I did, but at the same time I'm not fawning over it... or characters from it *glances at Prime* which doesn't make it bad, just not amazing.

Anyways~!! Onwards!!

We start... in outer space :)

( .__.) Wait... no... that's the logo for Shochiko, the group that produced this movie. As such, you'd have to be blind or stupid to not notice the dramatic difference between the movies animation and the animes animation. What did I think? Well, I'll get to that later ;D

We actually start in a mysterious deserty place thing (descriptive Carrot >__>) with a man preaching stuff and a woman *watches as Prime begins to drool* dancing around two stones containing other stones. We don't get any voices, but the music incorporated is gorgeous, as per usual :)

People have gathered to watch Prime drool the lady dance and-

OMG!! A MAN WITH A SWORD!! What's he doing with that? Swords are dangerous!! :O He just stabbed somebody... but more importantly...

BLOOOOOOD!!! I DON'T BELIEVE IT!! Blood... in a Fairy Tail movie!? :D For sure! This movie just got 20 times better and it's only been playing for a few minutes!!

As people bleed (YES! BLEED!) the old man grabs Prime's lover and one of the stones, teleporting them both from the scene. However, he gets stabbed (YES! STABBED!) before they fully disappear, so despite getting the pretty woman to safety, he himself bleeds out (YES! BLEEDS!!) and dies (YES! DIES!). Just how great is this already!? :D

Wiki peeps: Uhhh... should we be scared that she's this happy about death and suffering?? Carrot: Of course not X3

Back at the stony place (to hell with my descriptions) the guys who attacked take the other half of the funny stone, which of course is red to symbolise evil and badness and evilness. Our girl with the blue (and therefore nicer) part of the stone runs whilst bleeding (YES! BLEEEEEEDING!) and then collapses ( .__.)~ Well, she tried, right?

* insert an opening here that is neither that interesting nor that catchy*

We now meet some characters we know! It's Team Nastu + Wendy and Happy, at some sort of Greece rip-off town to capture a bandit named Geese, who, if you remember, was name-dropped by Bacchus in chapter 298.

Okay, it's easier to judge animation now that I have something to go off of. I found throughout this movie that there were some parts I liked a lot, and others not so much :/ I found the women were really well animated. Eclair, Lucy, Wendy and Erza all look very nice during the movie. The same can be said for Natsu on most occasions. However, I always found that Gray looked a little funny for most of this. Did anyone else get this? Lemme know ;D

This aside, the group runs through the town and are suddenly attacked by Geese's humongous group of thugs. This is where things get good. I really really really cannot describe how much I love the animation of Magic in this movie. It's just all really well done, very fluid and very steady, which makes for some great battles :) The other thing is that the animation of Magic matches everything else. One of the things that kinda annoys me with the FT anime is that the animation style for similar Magic changes and is inconsistent. As an extra, Natsu flames could look kind of real-lifeish whilst Wendy's wind doesn't. As such, seeing nice consistency is great :) Erza also gets an upgrade with a really awesome Requip animation where her armour seems to unbuckle as it removes itself from her * ^ * That was very awesome.

Naturally, FT beats the crooks but fails to keep one for interrogation. Natsu and Gray get into a rather funny battle, throwing a thug between them, and then laugh my ass off every time as Natsu slides down through the town on Gray's ice floor XD I don't know why, but I find that part hilarious XD XD XD

Luckily Lucy and Loke are on top of things though, and capture a man for them to get Geese's location out of. The others catch up as Lucy chases Geese through the town, the man obviously identifiable through his name tattooed on his back :P

However, the man evades capture through the use of Flattening Magic ;D As such, Lucy and the others lose him, and don't get their reward, making Lucy sad D; Concurrently, our lovely lady meets up with a flying bird of some description, and Marakov sits in on a boring Council meeting, sending everyone's favourite Iron Dragon Slayer to look more into one of the issues >:) Alright! Gajeel!!

We finally get a glance at the rambunctious Fairy Tail guild hall, and Juvia is on the scene, being ridiculously funny as usual ;D I really liked the way the guild hall was shown, all lively and full of people :) It always seems a little dry in the anime :/ Loved it here <3

Finally the bad guys are introduced!! Seems it's some puffed up freakin Prince (I typed Prime just then accidentally XP) who wants to make himself look good by combining the apparent "Phoenix Stone" in front of his town at a celebration. He sends a guild called Carbuncle to retrieve the other half of the stone. However, our FT friends are one step ahead with the very obvious (screw in his alcohol and everything) Gajeel and Pantherlily stalking them ;D

Back at the guild, Lucy finds a collapsed Eclair and takes her to FT for food. Eclair eats and awkwardly says nothing nice at all, with her funny chicken-like friend Momon doing all the talking. Just as Eclair goes to leave, Carla has a premonition! dun Dun DUUUUUNNN~!! But, but, but, even more dun dun dun is that...

SHE ACTUALLY TELLS SOMEBODY ABOUT IT!!

I know right!? Carla actually WARNING SOMEONE about a bad future!? What is Fairy Tail coming too. Blood is good, but Carla actually being a better character... IMPOSSIBURU!! :<

Eclair however refuses the warning, causing the plot device necessary to start FT's adventure, as they agree to accompany her on her quest to keep her safe :)

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FT's on a train!... and Eclair's being awks again >__> This time she pretty much tells Lucy to piss off out of her problems and reveals that she seems to be missing some of her memories o___O

This is cast aside though as the group arrives... wherever they were heading (can't be stuffed going back to hear the town name). We then get a little nice scene with some lovely music which shows what the FT peeps like to do when left alone in town.

Natsu and Gray go as expected, Natsu stuffing his face and then getting stuck working in the restaurant when he can't pay the bill, whilst Gray gets arrested and scolded for walking around naked XP Lucy tries to cheer Eclair up, to no avail, and Wendy gets a little cheeky, trying to cheat at street games :P

However! Winner of best town activity and winner of best scene in the entire freakin' movie goes to Erza, who, after unsuccessfully shopping for armour, gets all flustered and cute and BUYS A WEDDING DRESS~!!

Let Carrot's fangirl imagination run wild~!! * ^ * <3 @____@

The group regroup (nice wording there >__>) back at their hotel, where everyone questions why Erza looks so damn happy.

SHE'S DAMN HAPPY BECAUSE SHE'S PICTURING HER WEDDING WITH JELLAL YOU IDIOTS!! *swoons*

O___o I- I- I mean... you guys are a bit... slow. She is probably thinking about marrying someone :3

... *nudges Jellal* I said someone!

And this wouldn't be an FT movie without a shot of Lucy in the shower, which is delivered next.

And then what is delivered is a very awesome battle-like scene with perhaps the coolest character in the series :3 Yep, it's that shadow guy, the one who melts into himself and other things and can go Wolverine with huge metal claws springing forth from the gauntlets he wears. Long story short, he attacks Lucy and Eclair, Lucy dodges (very nicely) and screams for Natsu. Natsu and Gray come to everyone's rescue, but lose the guy, who sees that they are FT Mages. Returning to Lucy, Gray and Natsu then get a very nice view when Lucy's towel (what she was wearing the whole time) falls off. I loled when Lucy tried to flick pebbles at them for not looking away XD Hahaha.

Despite the awesome shadow man getting away, Eclair manages to remember that she is seeking a man in the forest she is heading to, and the group believe that he can help them figure out why Eclair is missing some of her memory, and also why she has the strange stone that the shadow guy seemed to want. They head out to a house in Eclair's memories and discover that it is abandoned, but that the man who owned it was Eclair's father. Through a Magic-Ultear-like-Lacrima-sphere, Eclair's father details that he wanted Elcair to bring him the stone so that he could use some form of Dispelling Magic on it, but of course, he is already dead, and the instructions on how to use said Magic are nowhere to be found. Convenient >___>

As the others conclude that the stone must be evil, Eclair gets very upset over her families death, and Lucy comforts her. Eclair then requests that FT find a way to dispel the stone.

It's about half way through the movie at this point and the main plot has pretty much been set up. Am I enjoying it so far?? Like hell I am~! :) The movie definitely has a darker tone to it than the normal series, particularly where death is involved, but I think I like it :D Does this like maintain itself throughout the rest of the movie? Hmmmm... not quite... so let's get onto that...

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Back at Fairy Tail (Yay!) the guild think about how to dispel the stone. They are interrupted though by a VERY well done scene, in which the guild is suddenly attacked!!

As the debris clears, we see a woman with curly hair, a man of average height with a long cloak, and a very tall man with things floating above his head...

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...HOLY SHIT!!

THE RAIJINSHUU ARE ATTACKING FAIRY TAIL AGAIN!! DX

...No... wait... ( .__.) it's those freaks from that Carbuncle guild... Oh no! They must be here to get Eclair! D:

As I mentioned, the scene that unfolds is pretty freakin' awesome. The guy with the cannons (no matter how creepy when he licks his lips upon seeing Gray) is pretty strong, but the combination of Dyst's telekinesis-like Magic and Coordinator (wtf name?) with her Requip and seeming ability to un-Requip others take the spotlight for well thought out Magic. Just as everyone is owned, awesome-hell-yeah shadow man reappears and grabs Eclair...

Well... that was certainly easy... ( .__.)

Makarov returns with Lily and Gajeel, and suddenly Gajeel reveals all of this info that makes everything conveniently fall into place. Gajeel states that some Prince from the Principality of Veronica (since when was Gajeel an English major? >__> Like he knows that word! XD) wants to combine the stone to gain immortality.

So, that's what the fuck is going on... I get it now...

Again, long story short (have you seen how much tying I've done so far... my fingers are killing me DX) FT decides to go rescue Eclair. The woman in question does need saving, as, in the cell of the Prince, she has her arm cut side open, spraying blood (YES! BLOOD!) everywhere. ( .__.) This movie really is darker...

Skipping ahead, as evil Prince guy prepares for his celebration and to sacrifice Eclair, FT arrives in Veronica, only to be encountered by the members of Carbuncle again. In traditional FT style, they get paired up. Pretty much:


 * Erza V Coordinator
 * Gajeel V Holly-crap-I'm-awesome shadow guy
 * Natsu V Dyst, the telekinetic guy, and
 * Gray and Juvia V Cannon
 * Wendy and Pantherlily V Some thugs from Carbuncle

...leaving Lucy to find Eclair.

For the sake of being quick and not killing you by jumping back and forth, I'll do quick reviews of the fights here:

Juvia and Gray's fight was short but sweet. I like it how they didn't use nakama power or any of that crap, rather they just took advantage of their very compatible Magic and Cannon's lack of speed and froze him. Didn't take him out really, just froze him. Again, short, sweet needed. Plus, Juvia was so cute at the end :3

Erza's fight was pretty sweet XD The armours that Coordinator pulled out were pretty cool, and actually seeing Erza bleed for once was nice ;D However, this fight gets ten bazillion stars because Erza wins by fighting in her wedding dress, leading Coordinator, upon her defeat, to question just how desperate Erza is.

SHE IS DESPERATE!! DESPERATE FOR SOME JELLAL LOVIN'~!!! <3

Let Carrot's fangirl mind run wild~!! (take 2)

Gajeel V Chase was pretty cool, but only because I like both Mages abilities... I guess compared to the others it was even quicker, and even more simple in terms of attacks, though, again, it's hard to argue with Gajeel getting stabbed from the inside of his body and then eating all of the blades protruding from his skin >:)

And finally Natsu V Dyst. Well >__> Eh. Natsu should have died (or at least broken his face and every other body part) from Dyst's attacks, though, being an anime, this obviously doesn't happen. Though, it was nice to see Natsu fall... for now...

Returning to the palace, Dyst arrives just in time to watch as Prince Puffpants combines the phoenix stones...

...WRONG!!

Dyst arrives just in time to push the freaky Prince aside, declare himself the new ruler and complete the resurrection, whilst in the square below, Eclair begins to burn at the stake she is chained to T^T Painful DX

The phoenix is then awoken... and... well, I was kinda like "WTF is THAT!?" for most of this scene, because I swear, whatever the hell that thing that came out of the phoenix stone was, it was as weird and fugly as all hell :/

As the monster destroys shit, Lucy and Natsu find Eclair, who managed to escape the fire thanks to the sacrifice of Momon T^T Also on the scene is Makarov, who meets Erza with Jet, revealing that they stole some form of weapon from the Magic Council to take the beast out. Way ta go Makka~!! That's how you do it ;D Steal shit and stuff :P

As Natsu and the others try to stop Dyst and the wtf-phoenix to no avail, Lucy moves Eclair through the town, and we finally figure out (Eclair somehow gets her memories back?) that Eclair is immortal, being made so my the blood of the phoenix specifically to ensure the stones destruction. Woah... okay... I guess I saw that coming...

What I didn't see coming was Lucy and Eclair getting into a near-death experience and the duo being rescued by Geese of all people o___O That was... a little stupid imo... ( .__.)

Anyways, more fighting, awesome FT music playing, we finally get some awesomeness, because who should show up but the Raijinshuu and Laxus~!! Yeah XD And they are actually smart, rather than just launching pointless attacks at the phoenix's mega huge body thing, they attack the foot, causing it to fall over. Meanwhile, Natsu uses nakama crap to take out Dyst >__>

However, even with Dyst down, the bloody phoenix is still up and good, and now even more people show up~! Mirajane (looking badass with Satan Soul) and the other prominent FT members all appear and all start beating the hell out of the phoenix, who only begins to absorb their Magic, and every other form of Magic, as it prepares for a huge mother-fucker attack to completely destroy the world.

Eclair then explains that the phoenix wants to destroy the world so that it (and only it) can be reborn from the ashes...

...Meh... seems legit...

However, Makarov has other ideas. He arrives on the scene and explains that the weapon he stole from the Council (made by Eclair's own father) can be used to destroy the phoenix forever, but, due to the fact that Eclair is immortal because of the phoenix, she will die too as a result. With Erza in standby (and looking awesome) to fire, Makarov asks Eclair to make the hard choice of giving up her life. Despite Lucy's want for the whole world to be destroyed and Eclair's life to be spared (yep, sure, let everyone else die painfully Lucy) Eclair accepts, and Erza fires the arrow into the phoenix's (?) eye.

Naturally this is the sad/dramatic scene, because Lucy is crying and screaming and Erza's arrow naturally doesn't completely pierce the shell of the phoenix (?), leaving Natsu to have to push it in himself.

Natsu succeeds of course, and the phoenix (?) begins to crumble to dust as Eclair also vanishes. Lucy screams some more, but we get the happy little image of Eclair and Momon meeting in the afterlife and stating that they will be happy together forever D; Happy but sad at the same time...

In the aftermath of the fight, Lucy and Wendy cry and Erza feels bad because Makarov never told her that the arrow would take Eclair's life, which I reckon is a little tight on Makarov's behalf, but anyways :/

Finally, as Lucy questions whether Magic is good or evil, we get the movie version of Mashima's very much loved movie teaser artwork, which, despite never being able to match anything Mashima-sama can create, is still very sweet :3

As the credits role, we gets some images of the clean up of Veronica, Fairy Tail rebuilding (wish they had Ultear and her Arc of Time I bet ;D) and Lucy seeing Eclair as a child walking down the street.

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Okay... did I like it in the end?? Weeeeeell, it could have done without that bunch of nakama crap of Natsu's behalf right at the end there, but though these cliché bits did exist, they weren't necessarily ruining the movie.

So, I'm going to have to give the movie 8/10... if I had to give it a rating. It was good, but it wasn't amazing. The animation, for the most part, impressed me, and the score for the movie was, naturally, gorgeous <3

Eclair and some of the other characters introduced were really well done too :3 So, all in all a very nice job by the movie team here :) If they ever make another, I will be sure to check it out ;D

Until then, I'll just have fun imagining Erza in her wedding dress * ^ *

Wedding... dress??

Wait a second...

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>:)  Carrot: Leli~! Rauleli~!! Leli: *walks over to the hole* What is it Carry? I don't have time to play with you right now... Carrot: Rauleli~! Leli: *looks down into the hole to see Carrot in a beautiful wedding dress* C-Carry!? * ^ * Carrot: Rauleli... my love~! I have decided... that I want to be with you forever and ever and ever!! Please marry me~! <3 Leli: C-Carry! @___@ *gets a rope to pull Carry out of the hole* I thought you'd never ask~! Of course I'll marry you!! Carrot: *begins to get pulled out of the hole* Rauleli~!! Leli: *keeps pulling* Carry~! Carrot: *almost at the top* RAULELI~!! <3 Leli: *pulls Carrot out of the hole* CARRY~! <3 Carrot: Rauleli~! ... ... ... *stabs Rauleli through the chest with her pocket knife* ... ... Fuck off ( .__.) Leli: *falls to the ground* Waaaahhh.. Carry... my... love? Carrot: *pushes Leli into the hole* *dusts off hands* Well, that went better than expected. Now to just get out of this stupid Magazine headquarters without running into Prime or Jak >___> *skips off into the sunset* THE END~!!