Interesting on the surface, weak at heart, lacking in highlights, and full of shortcomings, it’s a takeaway-style movie.

Gintama 2 is a live-action comic book film produced by the talented Japanese director Yuichi Fukuda and a group of popular Japanese stars. This work continues the original cast of the previous work, and selects the "Shogun Chapter" and "Shinsengumi Chapter" of the original work as the main content of the story. Among them, the story of the "Shinsengumi" is the main carrier, which is biased towards fast pace and high excitement. The "General Chapter" is relaxed and happy, contributing most of the laughs to the whole story, and is a daily part. The two intersperse narratives, excluding the daily parts, the main body of the work is the plot of the Shinsengumi Hijikata Jushiro being assassinated, which then triggered a series of turbulent plots in the Shinsengumi, and then the protagonist worked with others to resolve the turmoil.

Yuichi Fukuda is an amazing director. Gintama 1 and I Am Big Brother, which he launched in 2017, are both successful live-action comic-book movies and TV series. This director used various methods to reduce the embarrassment of live-action comic adaptations. For example, he tried his best to restore the real characters and scenes in the animation. For example, in casting, he chose artists and stars with high national popularity, and used various magical means to Liberate the "screen" nature of these artists. Even if the plot performance is slightly weak, the above two points can make most people flock to it. What's more, the director still has a certain plot arrangement ability, making his movies not too ugly, and Gintama 2 is no different. Later data proved that this approach was feasible. Gintama 1, Douban score 7.0. I Am Big Brother has a Douban score of 9.1, making it the highest-rated Japanese drama in 2018.

In Gintama 2, what we see is more skillful use of lenses, more funny plot arrangements, well-funded special effects scenes and a more "liberated" nature of the artists. At the same time, Douban also gave full support in terms of ratings. The higher score of 7.4 proved to be better than the previous game. In comparison, the scenes in Gintama 2 are richer than those in the previous game, the characters feel more comfortable than those in the previous game, and the plot conflicts are more obvious and gradually become superficial. However, due to the superficiality, the work lacks depth and gradually becomes a simple comedy action movie. The overly simple understanding of the plot makes the core of the work slightly weak apart from being funny. The overall performance is quite satisfactory, with insufficient highlights and more than enough shortcomings. It can only be suitable for one person to order a takeaway and watch it quietly. The film is full of the hysteria that often exists in Japanese movies, which will reduce the tolerance to a certain extent. Compared with the strong intensity given by the first film The freshness is bound to gradually decline after that. But it also proves that this road to live-action comic adaptation cannot be static and needs to be revised in time.