Kimi to Idol Precure♪ Movie: Omatase! Kimi ni Todokeru Kirakki Live!

The cons:
The vision was there but the storytelling became a bit boring and convoluted.
The animation was not that great especially at the beginning and middle.

The pros:
The animation kicked off its high gears toward the end.
Thankfully we watched it in the theatres which added to the enjoyment of the concert portion.
The songs and dances were the real highlight as you can obviously see that's where they poured their budget to.
I would probably buy a blu-ray version just for the soundtrack and ending and the memories of watching this with my kid.

... Overall:
Not the best but also not the worst. Could've been better. We've seen better Precure. Good effort though. 7/10

"I think animes and mangas have an ‘advantage’ over American comics, which are mostly about superheroes, and that’s where the majority of sales and readers are concentrated. in Japan, it’s not just hero stories. There’s a much wider range of genres, like stories about cooking and soccer"
- Jim Lee, inept editor of DC Comics and one of the main reasons why the american mainstream superhero comics are not selling like they used to be, january 2025 -
Why I'm starting this review with this quote? simply because the main point of detraction of this movie, which on itself would be a good complement to the ... Masterful main series attached to it, is exactly the same kind of crap the more time it passes the less I like about the japanese tokusatsus (of all the IP, not just the Toei owned ones), crap taken 1:1 from the american mainstream superhero comics: the need to make of EVERYTHING a crossover of different superheroes or different team of superheroes, even when it's not needed and completely discarding the possibility you might not be interested in/not like them to begin with (see, as examples, the useless cameo of a Gokaiger sentai in Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger, or the one of Urutoraman Orb in the Urutoraman Geed movie). Until two thirds in the story told in this is nothing out of the ordinary if you have seen any Super Sentai movie but the fact that the main protagonist and love interest for a lot of us men (the material dedicated to both her forms on Pixiv speaks for itself), Uta Sakura, is portrayed EXACTLY how she acts and thinks in the main series makes up for it. After that, the main battle with the main villain of this movie sinks in and...Toei gracefully entertains us not just another pointless transformation of Cure Idol (as pointless and ugly as it was the Pink Hair/Red Dress variant in Kimi To Idol, one of the only two reasons for which I didn't give to the series a full 10) but with an unnecessary and boring crossover between two previous teams of the Pretty Cures, the kind of crossover that would make the appareance of the Beyonder in the mediocre Marvel mini-event Legacy of Thanos to boost the sales of the Secret Wars II megaevent (!) blush for envy. So much for the animes and mangas being that different from the american mainstream comics! (from which they have took all the worst tendencies).
For the rest, technically speaking, there's nothing to complain, the OST is good, the animation is good, the voice performances are excellent, again a good complement to the main series if you like/loved that one like I did. But the crossover was COMPLETELY useless, being this a movie about Kimi To Idol and not Kimi To Idol + other Pretty Cures teams.
Watchers of this be advised.