Top 10 Best Pretty Cure All Stars Movies
Time for a list of the Pretty Cure All Stars movies. These films bring together every Cure from the current season with previous Cures to keep the fanbase engaged. And my goodness, they really do love a crossover event whenever possible, featuring every single Cure that appears.At this point, I believe I have watched all the All Stars movies. Therefore, it is time for a list ranking the best ones.
DX3 features every Cure from HeartCatch backwards, as well as Cures Melody and Rhythm from Suite. This is my favorite movie. I wanted to see great interactions between the many Cures, and this movie delivers.
The villains are reincarnations of previous movie villains, who separate nearly every Cure to battle. The pink lead Cures are together, the blue/white/green ones try to get through one segment, and the rest are in another. There were interesting team-ups.
When everyone comes back together to defeat the previous movie villains, they find Black Hole, perhaps the most terrifying Pretty Cure villain yet due to attempting to swallow the whole Earth. It took every Cure and the Miracle Lights to win.
The first official All-Stars movie is DX, which features Cures Peach, Berry, and Pine from Fresh PreCure and every Cure beforehand. This one more or less started it all if you don't count the five-minute short GoGo Dream Live.
The main deal here is that Fusion, the villain, is after the Cures' fairies. After absorbing attacks from Cure teams, we see that the Yes Team runs towards the goal, getting help from the Splash Star and Max Heart teams, the first instance of crossing over! These Cures then find some way to battle Fusion to win against him, and he will come back eventually.
This movie is technically for the Hugtto! Pretty Cure season but is classified as an All Stars movie due to the time travel in the series and every Cure before this point appearing in mainline episodes. The focus is on Hugtto's team, plus Max Heart, mostly Cure Black.
The villain, Miden, an old camera, wants the Cures' memories and turns them into babies. There is substantial development, especially for Cure Yell. Once the Cures are restored, they use their many various moves, with 55 Cures getting speaking roles, winning the movie a Guinness World Record.
Though the fighting isn't as good as the previous two entries, the sense of scale is impressive.
The final movie in the New Stage saga features every Cure from DokiDoki backwards along with Cures Lovely and Princess from HappinessCharge PreCure. This movie is the culmination of the previous New Stage movies, where our friends EnEn and Gureru from the last movie want to help newer teams.
The tapir fairy Maamu sends people into lucid dreams, which needs to be stopped as the Cures must wake up. There's a nice twist: the two newest Cures aren't the main saviors but need to join the action.
The action in the climax is exceptionally good with plenty of voiced characters this time. Cure Echo returns and gets a better role than in New Stage 1.
The second New Stage movie features every Cure from DokiDoki backward, except Ace, who isn't in this. This is a continuation of the previous New Stage movie, though the setting is now in a fairy world where Gureru thinks he's got it all going for himself. Thanks to his supposed bravery, he comes in contact with a powerful shadow which immobilizes the Cures to make Gureru feel good.
He later realizes that this shadow wanted to destroy stuff and fights along with EnEn to help the Cures out. Once again, decent action once all the Cures are released. Several Cures like Black, White, and Luminous, who didn't get voices last time, have them here.
DX2 features every single Cure from Fresh backward while including Blossom and Marine from HeartCatch. There's a lot to unpack here. A big fairy amusement park with many familiar characters wanting to join. While the Fresh girls show the HeartCatch girls around, they narrowly miss the other teams.
The best thing about this is the villains, who are already dead but resurrected to work under a new master, Bottom. They somehow do well this time against all the teams in numerous ways. The action remains good, but I didn't like this one nearly as much.
Tons of focus was on Blossom and Marine, the new Cures, and how the previous ones were to lead them to Bottom itself. More interactions are what I prefer.
The New Stage movies take a more story-oriented approach. This one features every Cure from Smile Pretty Cure backwards. We see glimpses of Fusion returning, with tons of Cures fighting it.
The main focus is on Ayumi, a girl who idolizes the Cures and bonds with Fuu, a snippet of Fusion. However, Fuu is looking to grow and eat everything, and Ayumi needs convincing from the Cures, notably Smile's team.
The action is alright, but two main issues stand out. First, the Cures from Yes! backwards have no speaking roles. Second, Cure Echo is a decent movie-only Cure but only does one notable thing, which is to cool down Fuu, which is anticlimactic.
While not a true All Stars movie, it still has crossovers featuring the main Cures from Star Twinkle (minus Cosmo), Hugtto!, and KiraKira a la Mode. This movie addresses not just space-related stuff but also what the Miracle Lights are and who manufactures them.
A big factory of sorts with owl-like fairies is featured, with one little chick fairy being a main character who's worked up about his work, and a darker one as the main villain. The usage of Dark Miracle Lights as a counter to defeat the teams was interesting.
Although the movie focuses on the most recent three teams, all previous teams show up, even if only for cameos on Earth, and some like Flora and Miracle get voices here.
I personally don't like this movie, but I see why it's an improvement over the previous musical movie, which was awkward. This one features Cures Miracle and Magical from Maho Tsukai Pretty Cure and all the earlier Cures. It also includes main villains from each season from Go!Princess backwards.
An evil sorceress wants to resurrect her master, but her assistant, a horse guy, wants the Cures' tears. My main issues with this movie are the Maho Tsukai team being very weak and the other Cures being imprisoned in dumb cages at the beginning.
Trauma's final fight was epic, and the musical numbers were okayish.
Spring Carnival features the first three Cures from Go!Princess and all the earlier ones, with only the leading Cures (plus Cure White and Cure Diamond) getting speaking roles. This movie could have been better because much of it is a montage.
We see CGI dances of each PreCure team for most of the movie, and they are interviewed by the two villains, Odoren and Utaen. The best parts of this movie are Odoren and Utaen. These hilarious villains aren't powerful, just funny thieves who are surprisingly smart.
A big dragon, hating what they did, tries to kill everyone, but the Cures save the kingdom. The way the Cures get their transformations back involves singing. Haruka (Cure Flora) was scared at first but knew what to do.
This is the genuine Avengers: Endgame for the franchise's movies. It splits the main season's teams with past Cures and mascots, but everything feels fragmented because most friends are still not around.
The main villain tries to be sympathetic but ends up having qualities of both Thanos and Ultron. She actually destroyed Earth and the Cures there, recreated it in her own likeness, and allowed some Cures and others to live. Thanks to the Hirogaru Sky Cures, they bring everyone back using Miracle Lights instead of a snap and Infinity Stones.
This is truly the Endgame of Pretty Cure movies, featuring 78 Cures total, who come together to fight a major universal threat that destroyed their planet. Although not all voice actors were present, the battle scale and buildup are astronomical. I honestly don't believe we will get another movie like this, even as more seasons come out.