JellyMatrix2754

Overall, I'd say if you have watched any Korean dramas you've seen this show before, and you've probably seen it done better. I will watch with family but don't care for the genre, so this was a miss for me. The songs had catchy beats, that's about the only redeeming element to me. The most disturbing aspect for me were the "dramatic" animations, with characters popping and jumping at odd framerates, like the animators need to buy new video cards. Individual moments looked beautiful, and if this were still frames on WebToons it would great, but as a movie it gave me motion sickness. More than anything else, the animation style made the movie difficult to watch. I felt the story was thin and the characters undeveloped. There was no backstory on most characters because they are the generic K-drama tropes. The plot and supposed twist can be found in many other k-dramas out there. Anyone playing "K-Drama Trope Bingo" would have a winner in just a few scenes. However, it is what the fans of the genre want, so they seem to have hit that. I felt some of the scenes were very sexist. If there was a role reversal, instead of featuring on the boy's abs and sexy-bits they had instead focused on the girl's body the same way there would have been an outcry. Nobody would be okay if the movie reversed the genders, if it were men drooling over the women's bodies, if there were a gender-reversed moment of a random old man coming over to feel up a young girl, or with a gender-reversed message that the only thing a girl has is her body where in the movie that's the only thing the demon boys had going for them. People are right to call it out when there's the sexy women just there for their body, this movie gender reverses it and it's just as bad. The demon boy band was an interesting combination, the k-pop music trendy, but I felt the actual story itself had nothing new from the formula.