Meitantei Conan Movie 19: Gouka no Himawari

At an exclusive auction house in New York City, Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers, which was believed to be destroyed by a US air raid of World War II, was put up for auction. Jirokichi Suzuki, accompanied by his niece, Sonoko won the auction with a $300 million bid. At a press conference, Suzuki announces his plan to gather all seven Van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings around the world for a grand exhibition. The venue would be a purpose-built gallery in a cliff in Japan known as "Lake Rock", with the highest security and protection. Suzuki also announces the engagement of seven specialists, whom he called the "Seven Samurai", to oversee the exhibition and protect the Sunflowers.

Conan then tries to track down Kaito Kid, who supposedly steals a one of Van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings during an auction.

(Source: Wikipedia, TVtropes)

Edogawa, Conan Main

Takayama, Minami Japanese

Kuroba, Kaito Main

Yamaguchi, Kappei Japanese

Mouri, Ran Main

Yamazaki, Wakana Japanese

Haibara, Ai Supporting

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Mouri, Kogorou Supporting

Koyama, Rikiya Japanese

Agasa, Hiroshi Supporting

Ogata, Kenichi Japanese

Suzuki, Sonoko Supporting

Matsui, Naoko Japanese

Yoshida, Ayumi Supporting

Iwai, Yukiko Japanese

Tsuburaya, Mitsuhiko Supporting

Ootani, Ikue Japanese

Kojima, Genta Supporting

Takagi, Wataru Japanese

Suwa, Michihiko Producer, Planning

Asai, Mitomu Producer

Ishiyama, Keiichi Producer

Kondou, Shuuhou Assistant Producer

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Jan 10, 2017

QuintenCK

Recommended

I tried to keep it spoiler free, only my Final tought goes into detail and give some spoilers.
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To begin, I liked the anime. I'm a big 1412 (Kid) fan but not that big of a DC fan. So I'm only going to compare of what I've seen.
To start, the beginning starts a bit suprising, but soon after the action begins. It gives you a wrong understanding about what is going on. But that's how I like it, it keeps you wanting to watch. Everything what Kid does is weird, and even when you watched the Magic Kaito 1412 serie, you still don't have a ... clue about what is going on. Kid only steals jewels, so why does he steals paintings?

(Not really a spoiler here, because it is already mentioned at the early beginning of the film what he is about to do.)

Even the thinking of Conan isn't told. It are some short moments were he thinks, but no real breaktrough. When the film develops at the searching-non action part you still don't have a clue about what is going on.
Only when the movie reaches her Climax things are rather suprising. Kid doesn't dp what you would think he would do and even some Jesus-things are put into it. xD

When Kid does that thing with paintings when everything can't get worse, you'll be not suprised when you've watched the Magic Kaito 1412 series. Actually, it's the moment you waited for, were your taughts about him really being not what he was in the 1412 series just vanished. And it really made me laugh. Further, when the whole complot was told, it was rather weird how it was all put together, but at the end, you'll forget about it due to that one moment with Kid and the inspector. (?)

So...
Story 7/10
It wasn't bad, but it wasn't breathtaking either. It could have some improvements here and there, but the story doesn't lack anything nor does it comes out unrealistic.

Art 6/10
Typical DC and 1412 art. Not my favourite, but still decent and not annoying to look at.

Sound 8/10
The music was good, it didn't "wake me up" from the story to irritate me that it doesn't fit together. But not much to say about it.

Character 5/10
It's typical to DC and 1412 that it hasn't a character development. Maybe it would've been better if the police realised what Kid has done for the other people.

Enjoyment 9/10
This is personal, but I really enjoyed it. It was worth spending 2 hours for it. I personally recommend this if you are a 1412 fan, but it way dissapoint you if you are a DC fan.

Overall 7/10
Nothing much to say here, it speaks for itselfs. I would love to give an 8 but that would be a bit to unrealistic compared to the points I've given the other stats.
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Final toughts:
[SPOILERS!]
With the aircraft, a plane can fly with 1 engine (even with 2) damaged or broken. So that was a rather weird moment for me.
The end was good, but it needed that one extra thing to make it shine. I would've loved if Conan personally comes to Kid and thanks him for helping and saving the girl.

So that was my review. If I was you, go and press the watch button!

You're still reading this? I recommended you to press the watch button...



PRESS THE BUTTON! (xD)

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jan 11, 2016

platinumSKIES

Mixed Feelings

The most recent Detective Conan film has come and gone, and this one is a bit different. Similar to the 10th movie (Requiem of the Detectives), we have our littlest detective out to protect the fine arts, though in this case, Conan must save one of Van Goh's most important paintings, the Sunflowers. Is this movie an amazing art heist wannabe, or a copied flop? Oh, and did I mention Kaito Kid? Cause yeah, Kaito Kid.

Story (6/10): After the Suzuki Zaibatsu purchases the originally thought destroyed 2nd Sunflowers painting, Kaito Kid essentially declares that he'll steal it. But since this is completely outside of the ... thiefs usual M.O., all characters involved become suspicious, especially after the messages and methods become violent. Conan and friends are now on a deadline to get the Sunflowers Exhibition up and running, but it still doesn't answer the main problem: why is Kaito Kid after the paintings?

The story here is a bit of a mixed bag, to say the least. There's a lot right but enough wrong that it's hard not to address. The good things are that it really takes a smart approach to trying to defeat Kid, showing all the work that goes into everything behind the scenes. It's really quite fun to see just what Suzuki Jiro does to show off his extreme wealth. All the stuff that connects with the Sunflower paintings themselves is also interesting, and a little heartwarming.

There are some problems with the movie. The resolution to who is after the paintings is WEAK. And I don't just mean weak, I mean WEAK AS FUCK. (Yes, f-bomb worthy weak.) True, the clues do tell you who it is, but God almighty is it a letdown. In connection to that, there's a random confession to a crime dead center in the climax that basically comes out of nowhere and does nothing to change the plot AT ALL. Also almost everything to do with Kaito Kid is basically worthless, and yes as a fan of his, that sucks to say. I'll elaborate more in the below section, but suffice to say, this is probably the weakest movie that Kid has been a part of.

Overall it isn't a bad story, but man, the parts that are bad are standout bad.

Art (8/10): As is per the norm, the art is excellent, giving all the scenes wonderful color and action. Though I must point out that there are a few 'quality' background scenes here and there that are a bit more standout than I would usually critique.

Sound (7/10): Back to basic Conan movie music, but as usual that isn't a bad thing. Though I must point out the track that plays during the climax of the movie, as it was really damn good.

Character (6/10): I do have some positives and negatives in relation to the regular cast. First the disappointing: it feels like they dumbed down Conan and Ai. While nothing extreme or distracting, it just feels like the two smartest characters in the show almost don't have that much of an impact in solving the crime. Conan doesn't have to work hard to figure anything out and really only gets like 2 clues total to work with in the entire movie. It just feels like he got pushed out of his own movie.

Not all is bad though. The Suzuki's (Jiro and Sonoko) are actually more entertaining here than they've been in a while. Ran, her Dad, and Inspector Nakamori are also treated with respect and given quite a lot to do here. Basically the main side characters here are treated well and are really fun to watch.

Kaito Kid is also barely in the movie. Technically he is in most of it, but he doesn't even have a freaking line until 20 minutes near the end. Despite being the main 'antagonist', he's just a non-factor in the story too much of the time. It honestly feels like the movie is trying to play Kid like he was back when his introduction was a bit more mysterious, but by today, where his manga is a thing and he had his own anime last year, it just doesn't work anymore.

With the movie exclusive characters, they are just boring and forgettable. True, Inspector Charlie is the best of the bunch, but he's ultimately not that important in the long run. The other characters have literally 3-8 lines of dialogue and no personality at all. Hell, I don't even remember their freaking names after just watching it. They're close to the top of a Worst DC Movie Cast list for being just there and irrelevant by the end.

(As is traditional at this point, I need to make my complaint: why are the freaking Detective Boys in this damn movie? Their scenes are worthless and they literally serve no purpose. I don't want to hate on them, since as Quarter of Silence has shown us, when given real purpose, they are great characters. But here? They should've been excluded from the entire second half when the exhibition takes center stage. Hell, even the Professor is kind of awkwardly shoved into the movie, with all his scenes being really bad comedy.)

Enjoyment (7/10): I did have more fun with this movie than I did the last one, if you can believe it. Probably because I do like a good art heist film. Granted, as noted above, the second half is where I started getting lost. While the actual climax is really fun, I was just disappointed that we didn't really get a Conan vs. Kid film. I really should know by now that we'll never get one of those until a miracle happens, but I still held hope that this would be the one. Again, while it seems like I'm complaining, I really did have some fun with this movie. (Also there's a tiny call back to something from the 18th movie here, which is kinda cute.)

Detective Conan: The Hellfire Sunflowers is probably one of the more average movies in the series, though it isn't awful by any means. While the side characters are really given a time to shine, the story has some major flaws in its second half and doesn't really feel like the Conan/Kid focused movie that it's trying to be. If you're a DC fan, I as always recommend that you watch it at least once for completions sake, but non fans aren't going to find anything interesting here.

6/10 = average by DC standards; second half is weak, with the mystery reveal failing to impress; there are better Conan/Kid movies, like the 14th (being the best); the main older side characters do kind of get a chance to shine;

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 20, 2015

Badid55

Not Recommended

This review do not countains spoilers about this movie, so feel free to read it.

I'm a huge DC fan, that's why after a good 18'th movie, I really hoped to have such a good movie, keeping all this promises, especially with a global "subject" as rich and interesting as the universe of the big painter Vincent Van Gogh.
And after almost 2hours, I've to admit that this movie was... extremely disappointing.
Let's talk about it:

•Story (05/10):
I've to say that, to my eyes, the plot is quite interesting. A strange mixture between a police universe and a paint universe caught my attention.
Nevertheless, after few minutes of the movie, ... we quickly understand that it will not be as interesting as we could thought.
AND THE MAIN REPROACH I have to make on the overall movie, is that everything is COMPLETELY PREDICTABLE. EVERYTIME.
Even if the story would have been able to be well-maded, it's not, cause it's quite confusing.
And it's soooo frustrating! Because if you're a DC fan, you can see lots of good protagonist in there (Kaito Kid and all this stuff, shounen detectiv boys, mouri...), with good intentions to mix them and make them act together...

•Art (06/10):
Without being magnificent and unrefined, the global design is pleasant, reminding us "magic kaito", who has finished recently
However, as all DC movie, expressions are a little bit too accentuated. And I hope that it'll be fixed one day..

•Sound (06/10)
Except the music of the credits which is HORRIBLE (Oh! Rival (オー！リバル)" by Porno Graffitti), the music is good, and does not stand out too much during the movie. Furthermore, it is sensibly well placed in action scenes. I really appreciated it.

•Characters (02/10): (DID NOT COUNT DC USUAL STAFF)
Well. A recurrent problem in DC movies.
The seven Suzuki's samurais are useless and without interest. The plot and the story behind them is bad and not convincing.
Besides, the samurai's plot is badly brought to us (moment when we saw the old lady, and when we saw what happen' whith the paints for example..), and WE CAN NEVER be interested or become identified to them, because they are badly introduced, while they are supposed to have an important part in the movie.
However, they put forward too much the fact that the kid became nasty, whereas it's just obvious that we all know what will really happened and what are the real kid's intentions (without trying to spoiling you, which is difficult, sry)

According to me, the characters (Kid, Conan, Samuraïs...) and the plot CAN NOT GO together, and NEVER seduce us... What a shame...
It could be mooooooore better than that.

•Enjoyment (04/10):
In the end, this movie is boring, because of his predictibility. But I've no problem to watch it and I review it due to my frustration against this obvious clumsy plot.


•Overall (04/10)
It's not a bad movie. But it's a bad DC movie.
It never brings us what we are expecting in a DC movie. And all the fan-service in this movie (cross between Conan and Kid, for example) is heavy and deprived of interest.
Furthermore, the story behing Van Gogh and his painting became boring...
To conclude, I'll say that I recommand you to watch it. To have your own opinion.
But objectively, you CAN NOT SAY that this is a GOOD DC MOVIE.
Now, we are all waiting for the 20th movie!

Thks for reading, and sorry for the language, not my language.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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