Studio Madhouse teamed with famed Studio Ghibli for the film's special effects and visually it's an impressive marvel of animation for the late 90s. The lighting and color tones are softer and darker compared to the brighter television series but it looks very well done especially on later Bluray remasters. The animation is of high theatrical quality for the era and still looks very good today.
The pacing can be a bit on the slow side, Sakura sees the same dream several times as a means to build a sense of foreboding this may dissuade some and feel a bit like padding. This gives a sense the real sense of being fresh and original and doesn't let the movie feel like a slightly longer episode. True to the style of Cardcaptor Sakura's story this trip is no luck of the draw but the will of the universe and fate itself. This movie story tells it's own unique side-quest adventure scenario featuring Sakura, her best friend Tomoyo, her older brother Touya and her childhood crush, Yukito going on a trip to Hong Kong.
The main series of Cardcaptor Sakura is about Sakura capturing a set of magical tarot styled cards and ensuring their power remains sealed. One difficult aspect about making a movie from a serial adventure of the week is making it worthwhile and the Cardcaptor movie delivers on the worthwhile aspect. This movie, Cardcaptor Sakura the Movie is set sometime in the middle of the series making this story act as an interquel to expand on the ongoing series. Cardcaptor Sakura being a series that has drew in wide appeal naturally was destined for a big screen treatment of it's own back in the series run. Spinning a movie off from an ongoing anime series is a popular trend and has been for ages. Due in large part to a heavy backlash by American fans of the original Japanese version who resented seeing their favorite show (one which dealt with many more complex issues than the typical Saturday Morning cartoon) turned to depth-less Americanized kid-fodder as 'Sailor Moon' had been several years earlier, Pioneer Entertainment (now known as Geneon) thankfully released the American DVDs of both the series and film in their original unedited Japanese language versions.
The result was one of the worst and most widely reviled Japanese-to-English transitions since the importation of anime to the states, in terms of faithfulness to the original. As in the series, which was heavily Americanized and stripped of many of the more unique or risqué elements of the Japanese version, the movie shown in America featured renamed characters ('Sakura Kinomoto' becomes 'Sakura Avalon ' 'Yukito Tsukishiro' becomes 'Julian Star,' etc.), re-done music, and a tremendously altered plot. Dubbed in English and released as 'Cardcaptors: The Movie' when the 'Cardcaptor Sakura' series aired on American television.
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