A “QUICK!” Review of “My Hero Academia movies″

My Hero Academia: Two Heroes (2018)

I appreciate that this movie actually expands on the world of My Hero Academia and also explores more of All Might’s backstory. Apart from that the movie is very predictable and forgettable.

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)

One of my issue with the first My Hero Academia movie was the animation quality not being any better than the show. Well the 3rd act of this movie has an insanely good animation with one of the best fights seen in the series. It also explores a bit more of the relationship between Midoriya and Bakugo.

It’s a shame that the ending ends up being dumb because they had to conform to the sake of canon. Additionally, the relationship between Midoriya and the new movie supporting character, Katsuma, is not interesting whatsoever. The first half of this movie is also quite slow and boring.

Just watch it for the action and not the plot.

My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission (2021)

The premise of Midoriya being frame for something he never did and being hunted down is an interesting premise. This could’ve made for an interesting conflict where he is getting hunted down by heroes or his classmates. Maybe there could be an interesting detective story to it with Midoriya having to investigate who the real culprit is.

It is a shame this movie does absolutely nothing with it and waste the idea of it. It’s also ridiculous that there is a villainous group that is threatening on a world scale. They are somehow more threatening than the actual main villain of the manga. There isn’t a fight scene that is as cool as the previous movie which is a shame.

What this movie does do better is having an actual interesting support character in Rody. He is more interesting than most of Class 1-A. His relationship with Deku is the most enjoyable aspect of the film and is the one thing that makes this movie fun to watch.

Overall, watch it for Rody!

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