“Promare” is a two-hour long full-throttle showcase of brilliant 3D animation that’s very reminiscent of “Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse.” If you thought that movie was awesome, then you’ll share a similar opinion about this one.

“Promare” comes from Studio Trigger. These are the same folks that brought us my personal favorite animes of all time, “Gurren Lagann” and “Kill La Kill.” All three of these stories are bombastic and intense tales about the tenacity of the human soul to overcome any obstacle with a smile on your face and a song in your heart.

I’m not going to explain the story at all. If you want to know whether you might enjoy a film like this, then watch the trailer. If any character looks cool to you, the answer is yes. This is truly a film where the style is all the substance you will need.

“Promare” premiered to a party of punctual and positive movie-goers for its two-day run in the United States. It’s a special kind of feeling to walk into a theater and know that everyone else in the room knows exactly what kind of films and shows the studio produced beforehand.

“Promare” proudly presents the audience with powerful and provocative animation and character designs, coming from the anime industry’s most prominent animators with plenty of experience under their belt. It’s almost something of a celebration of everything the studio has made up to that point, drawing very blatant comparisons to ideas that were already fully developed. If you’ve already seen the two shows I mentioned above, then you’ve basically already seen the same ideas in “Promare” but with better execution.

Not to say that “Promare” produces nothing of value, the animation is nearly flawless. For the few moments that “Promare” isn’t presenting the perfection of professional animators, it still looks pretty great, even as my eyes peered down to the bottom of the screen to read the subtitles.

“Promare”‘s biggest issue is that it doesn’t really have any ideas of it’s own. Everything except for the visuals comes from previous works of the team at Studio Trigger. Most of the characters, while stylish, don’t contribute anything to the story. The world building feels somewhat hollow.

If you plan to watch this movie when it comes to streaming services, then I recommend getting a big group of friends who are familiar with the studio, the largest TV you can find and the highest quality sound system you can afford. This is definitely a film that would have hit me completely differently had it not been on a giant movie screen with surround sound.

The composer is another personal favorite of mine. Hiroyuki Sawano’s pieces are known for having gigantic buildups and swells that make the animation hit like a truck. I can’t imagine watching this movie on a smartphone or computer and feeling the same level of enjoyment.

If you’re the kind of person who likes to see new and inventive animation, or you are just looking for a nice feel good film, then keep an eye out for “Promare” in the future. If you think it looks as cool as I do and you want to see something similar, then you can watch “Gurren Lagann” and “Kill La Kill” on Netflix right now in multiple languages.