Part of why it sucks is that it is ostensibly the end, the final conclusion. If episodes 10-12 were a foregone conclusion rather than explicitly precluded by all the marketing, I might be just a bit less harsh on this movie.
It really is difficult for me to muster goodwill for this movie. It’s just so… dumb is the only word that fits it. It’s a paint by numbers cowardly way to handle the conclusion. And I don’t blame anybody in particular, just the platonic construct of the “author.” I don’t care what went on behind the scenes or politically, the end result needs to be treated as a product of an author, even if there were many hands involved at a high level. And I just don’t see that author as having anything interesting to say. It feels to me like someone tasked with doing something they didn’t want to do and finding the easiest path to completion. An algorithm wrote the movie, with no sense of myth and only a sense of storytelling inferred from earlier material and regurgitated as a matter of rote.
It’s an after dinner mint served in lieu of the final course, which turned out to use artificial sweetener.
The author of this movie, who appears to be no one particular person and could very well not truly exist as such, is a hack fraud. It’s really saying something that the prior movie, without being modified at all, makes for a genuinely superior ending and your movie actively detracts from the sum of the series. This movie felt obligated to exist, and this pervades it.
It was made by Gill from The Simpsons.