VAGUE SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE AND THE SERIES specific spoilers tagged I was in the mood for some good ole assclass recently but didnt have a lot of time to read or watch it so naturally I turned to the recap movie. I would call this a bad choice but given the fact this stonecold heart cried multiple times during it I dont think I can. Still there were a few things lacking in the movie that made it less enjoyable than it could have been. The movie is framed as an epilogue to the series in which adult Nagisa and Karma visit the old Class 3E classroom up on the mountain the day before the rest of their class comes to help clean it up for use as a classroom once again. They find the yearbook Korosensei made and begin reminiscing about their time in his classroom and the movie switches between presentday and their flashbacks. While I enjoyed seeing their adult forms the flashbacksor rather the flashes back to the presentwere cheesy and cliche and they werent my favorite. I also wasnt a huge fan of what the movie chose to use in its recap. Some moments were highlighted that I think didnt need to be as prominent while scenes I thought would have been included were left out such as Because crucial elements of the story were cut it didnt flow very well overall. I think part of the reason for this was because the movie focused a lot on Nagisas experience in Class 3E rather than the class as a whole. While I do understand that this is probably because Nagisa is the one experiencing the flashbacks due to his limited scope and perspective I feel like this contributed to the flow of the movie feeling disjointed and disconnected whereas the series does a better job conveying a full picture of the class. They also cut most of the other characters backstories and development which may have been necessary to fit the story into 90 minutes but it still made the movie feel incomplete and flat in that regard. All this having been said I still cried during the movie. They included which made me cry like a little kid when I watched it for the first time and again this second time. I think this scene would have been a little more impactful if they had shown a flashback to how the series opens but even without it the end of the story is still very heart wrenching. Still as I mentioned previously there are some pieces of the plot that would have made the recap more meaningful especially if youre watching the movie without knowing anything else about the series. Unlike Attack on Titan Chronicle or the Haikyuu recap movies it would be very difficult to pick this movie up without having seen the main series and then understand everything about the series and characters. Theres not much to say about some of the more technical aspects of the movie like animation and music. Theyre pretty much the same as in the show. Lerche did a decent job with the animation nothing incredibly noteworthy but also nothing awful either. I still like Karmas appearance more in the manga but maybe thats just me. I also forgot about the insert song Class 3E sings during the second to last episode. I think its really cool that the characters voice actors also sing for the show not just the openings but the insert songs too. Theres just so many little details like that and like that just made the show really really cool to me. As for the animeonly epilogue scenes while they were cheesy I did enjoy seeing the characters grown. Seeing what they did and where they wentand the details brought up in the series were brought up again in the epiloguewere all very nice elements they certainly could have left out but Im glad they didnt. It really gave a nice ending to the show with a nice sense of completion and satisfaction. Overall I finished the movie feeling like it wasnt quite a waste of time but that it wasnt quite a good use of it either. If youve got some time to spare and an urge to dip your toe back into Assassination Classroom then this movie is worth it. But if youve got better things to do and lets face it you probably do then youre not missing out on much. This is not a movie Im chomping at the bit to recommend but since the original Assassination Classroom material was so good to begin with then its not something Id try to talk you out of watching either. I think you get the idea. So despite numerous flaws Im giving it a 72 out of 100. For me it was enjoyable and the material is from an aboveaverage story. However due to the choppy nature of it and the lack of a fuller picture I cant give it anything much higher. Did I need to watch it? Absolutely not. Did I still enjoy myself? Yes. And in the end thats all Im looking for in an anime.