YMMV / Pretty Cure All Stars

• Base-Breaking Character: Cure Echo is disliked among a group of fans for taking away focus from the other cures for the majority of her debut movie and doing even less than Shiny Luminous. It's made worse by the fact that she doesn't even become a Cure until the final 10 minutes of New Stage 1, and doesn't even fight, all she does is give Fuu-chan a Cooldown Hug then de-transforms. On the other hand, quite a number of fans find her an Ensemble Dark Horse and wish that she appeared in one of the TV series as a Sixth Ranger.
• Broken Base: The canonicity of this portion of the franchise. While the idea of the teams meeting each other is great, there are some, both within the fandom and with the creators of the various seasons, who feel that bringing them back for series like this just cheapens the endings to their series and with them forever stuck as their initial ages isn't fair, unlike their Kamen Rider and Super Sentai counterparts, who are allowed to be seen aged up if the actual actor returns.
• Contested Sequel: Spring Carnival, mostly because the majority of the movie is The Musical set to the ending themes of several past Pretty Cure seasons without much in the way of plot progression until the last 20 minutes.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Ayumi, who spent the entirety of New Stage 1 overcoming her insecurities and earning her place amongst the other Cures as Cure Echo, suddenly disappears by the 15th anniversary movie All-Stars Memories, with none of the promotional material making any effort to reassure viewers of her existence. Considering how Ayumi idolized the Pretty Cures and wished to be one of them, only to be told in the most insulting way that she doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, that's gotta hurt. Except... she appeared in Episode 37 of Hugtto! as a canonical cameo! And she only makes an unvoiced cameo in All Stars F, among several other psuedo-Cures.
  • Supreme's whole mindset of Might Makes Right appearing alongside Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure takes on a whole new meaning when Skearhead is revealed, who also is a massive Social Darwinist with the same mindset.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • New Stage 3 depicts Nozomi as an adult and a teacher in the Lotus-Eater Machine. 9 years later, we get to see her along with the rest of the Yes 5 cast as actual adults in Power of Hope ~PreCure Full Bloom~, and she is a phenomenal teacher.
  • Italy is one of the few countries which has a fan following for Pretty Cure outside South-East Asia and Japan. In 2023, Pretty Cure All Stars F had a limited release in Italy, making it the first and currently only case of an official, Toei-supported, release of Pretty Cure, unaltered, in the West.^note Glitter Force was heavily edited and grudgingly released at all. All Stars F was only edited to give it Italian subtitles.
  • Cure Supreme and Cure Puca, when they finally become a Pretty Cure team of their own, are a human and their pet/mascot becoming Cures together. Just like all the Cures in Wonderful Pretty Cure!...
• Ho Yay: Utaen towards Odoren in Spring Carnival. "I really 'looooove' the boss!"- confesses Utaen, with a blush.
• Like You Would Really Do It:
  • DX3's climax brings the Cures one last chance to transform and save the world at the cost of never being able to see their mascot friends again. Seeing as how the movie was released towards the beginning of Suite, there was no way they'd permanently lock away the Cures' ability to transform.
  • All Stars F sees practically all the teams except Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure decimated by a mysterious enemy. While not as incredulous as DX3, It's still doubtful they'll all stay dead, especially considering their appearances in the Precure Full Bloom series.
• Narm:
  • The epilogue and end credits of DX 3 was supposed to be serious and a Bittersweet Ending, but the preppy and happy-sounding ending music kind of ruins the mood. It doesn't help that there's one background shot where Itsuki can be seen smiling while Tsubomi and Erika are heartbroken.
  • Miraculous Magic has its tendency to animate the singers with excessive gestures like in stage theater. While the overly dramatic gestures are necessary in theater because of the distance between the stage and the audience, seeing the florist at the opening moves up close is hilarity-inducting.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Slightly less than halfway through, DX 2 takes a dive straight into a level of Deranged Animation rivaled only by the likes of Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure. Even the villains in the second film go to this later on, as in they became the Devil Themselves.
  • Just watching the battle of all 20 teams of Pretty Cure against the Big Bad of All Stars F. They don't speak, just make alien noises that approximate speech while decimating the Cures, with even an attempt with Marble Screw not able to stop it, and it's implied they failed.
• One-Scene Wonder: Fans of the Ensemble Darkhorses of the franchise seem to cling at The Cameo of their favorites, but nothing seems to surpass the popularity of Seika donning Elegant Gothic Lolita in New Stage 2.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Those who didn't like Cure Echo gradually thought better of her in New Stage 3 where, despite only appearing in the last 10 minutes of the movie, she actually helps this time, and Enyen and Grell become her Fairy Partners. Her return in Miraculous Magic was also received rather well.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel:
  • The teams are seen interacting for some of the sequel (most notably the Heartcatch and Fresh teams), which is an improvement over the Stealth Hi Byes of the first movie. However, it's only those two teams that really interact for more than a few minutes, so mileage will vary.
  • After the first two New Stage movies got flak for the lack of speaking roles for most of the previous teams, New Stage 3 onwards has the original duo and at least every leader from each team reprised, ensuring that every season is represented even if it's unfeasible to bring back every single voice actress. Miraculous Magic also goes further by bringing back Cure Echo and every girl from the three previous seasons instead of just the immediate predecessor, as well as taking cues from the DX trilogy.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • There are a few fans, spoiled by the high-octane action of the DX movies, that see New Stage's Original Generation focus to be an annoyance.
  • Spring Carnival, which made almost the entire movie into The Musical while putting the action to the sidelines.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: It has its own page here.
• Tough Act to Follow:
  • DX3 delivered so much, be it action, speaking parts, sweet, awesome, and sad moments that many people felt the New Stage movies, and all subsequent crossover movies to a certain extent, while pretty good on their own, were a little lacking when compared to the DX ones.
  • All Stars Memories, which manages to have one big battle with every main Cure at the time getting at least one line during it, to the point they got a literal record for the feat, with the production staff themselves declaring that there's too many Cures now to make another attempt.
• Unexpected Character: Ayumi/Echo returning in All Stars F, the same movie where she was de-confirmed. She's showcased in the ending of the Episode 35 of Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure, much to fans' surprise, since, similar to Cure Majesty, nothing suggested she was in it before then. What's even more surprising? Either side of her are Guren and Enen, her fairies, who haven't appeared since New Stage 3, a decade earlier.
  • The film goes even further with this, with literally every single non-Cure character possible, be they mascots, pseudo-Cures, Legendary Cures or unpowered supporters appearing at the beginning of the final battle.

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