This week Kate didn’t pick the movie, I did. Because you’re your own best friend, right? However, I made Kate watch it with me, way past her bedtime. With all the exams, I needed a pick me up. Does this movie have a plot? Yes but no. Is it good? That’s up to you, but to me, it’s one of my favorite movies. The colorful explosions, great music, giant robots, and subtle homoeroticism between the two main characters, that is the recipe for a good movie in my book. The fact that this movie is a satire is the ribbon on top.

 

Promare is a movie set in a dystopian future where there is a group of people that can control fire. It follows the “normal” narrative of ostracizing this new group of people and the repercussions it has on society. The city the movie is set in has created this intricate system of firefighting to account for so much of the population being able to set fires. Galo the main good guy and resident himbo (please I don’t want to have to explain this lingo, if you don’t know what it means that’s okay, if you do. Please don’t destroy me.), works at one of these fire departments. What I am going to explain is what is in the trailer so I deem it fair game to talk about in this review without a spoiler warning. But that whole last sentence was a spoiler warning, sorry. Well, the first act of the movie is Galo’s dept. fighting a fire, surprise. But the fire was started by the “terrorist” group Mad Burnish. This all sounds super lame but bear with me. So, with a cool mech Galo defeats the two underlings and is ready to fight the big bad boss. He turns out to be a 5 foot something blonde man in a full leather suit and a cravat. Yeah, that’s in your brain now. They jab at each other in ways that seem way too much for just meeting. They are just way too much and just enough at the same time.

 

That being said this movie has an effect on people. After you watch it once, you have the need to watch it again immediately after. Two different people I have watched this movie with have had this happen to them, including Kate. She said that she would watch it again multiple times today, and she slept through half of it(Kate says it was 20 minutes, but it wasn’t). I love rewatching this movie and would watch it with anyone that asks.

 

To summarize Kate’s thoughts on the movie: “That shit was gayer than a freaking lesbian period drama.” For reference, Kate is a lesbian that has seen every lesbian period drama. Her words, not mine.

 

10/10 will watch with you. I’m 100% serious.

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