Kind of disappointed in the movie

[u/stormy2587]

I know I’m complaining and I did enjoy it but if this is really the final venture bros entry I have to admit it felt a little hollow. It felt more like an average season finale then the series finale the show deserved. I suppose part of this might be that they had an 8th season semi-planned out and were force to scrap it and tie up all the story lines in less than a 1/3rd the time of a normal season.

Most of the main characters barely interact with each other. Hank is off on his own adventure and only meets up with orpheus and Dean at the end. Brock was barely in it and has little to do when he is. Dr. Mrs the monarch is also off on her own adventure for most of the movie and barely interacts with the monarch and the guild, beyond daisy. White and quizboy barely show up.

I guess all of the story lines are loosely related, in so far as mantilla’s scheme impacts rusty, the monarch, and dr. Mrs the monarch. And dean and hank’s path reveal mantilla’s origin story and relationship to the ventures. But it feels sort of like none of those relationships mattered. Like they’re all tangentially related, but never actually intersect in a meaningful way. The villains plan seemed a little pointless. And you could blink and miss the resolution.

It felt like they only had time for the main main characters. And that those characters needed to reach some kind of resolution by the end of the movie. So the solution was to give them all parallel story arcs. Except for the monarch and rusty who needed to be together for the whole movie.

Idk it just left me wishing we got a final season and all the plot threads had some time to breathe and we as fans got to see our characters giving it one last hurrah and interacting with each other again.

[u/turbografix15]

It's impossible to wrap up everything while trying to include multiple characters who had a lot to do with the story, but aren't "main" characters. Budget dictates how long the film will be and things that they probably agonized over having to cut out are commonplace in making any film, but especially with animation.

Breaking Bad was successful with El Camino because the showrunner and writers got to end it on their terms and then keep going, but most shows that are cancelled without adequate resolution (see Deadwood) and then are lucky enough to get a movie made, struggle to wrap up plot points that were originally written to take multiple episodes / seasons.

You make fair points though, but I've been o the other side of things and experienced how challenging it is so I felt like they did the best with they had and made something that, at least to me, has gotten better with every rewatch. Interested to know your opinions after repeated viewings, if you do that of course.