The storytelling in this film is awful. It lasts too long to engage with something interesting for much time, and the storyline is actually hollow. The film mostly feels tedious and boring. It lacks focus. The character design is charmless aside from Rasputin and the animation has many flaws (especially with the armies). The jokes are mostly unsuccessful, because they do not coincide with the atmosphere and look completely out of place. Almost all the characters are dull and uninteresting, with the exception of Anastasia, Rasputin and maybe the fat guy who helped Alexander and Anastasia in the ending. Anastasia's family and Alexander are too bland and underdeveloped to be sympathetic -that is worse in the case of Anastasia's family because they are going to die. The birds are not those awful instruments of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", but can come as annoying in many parts.
This film lacked caution in the topic of shooting the Romanov family, and forgets that they are dead. The ending has a happy feel, because Anastasia recovers her memory, but that means that she will never see her family again. Are we supposed to be happy for that? And after Anastasia's memory is recovered, suddenly, this film has ended abruptly and confusingly. Hooray! The music is gorgeous, the voice acting is good and the romance between Anastasia and Alexander feels natural, but those details do not redeem this lackluster film.
This film lacked caution in the topic of shooting the Romanov family, and forgets that they are dead. The ending has a happy feel, because Anastasia recovers her memory, but that means that she will never see her family again. Are we supposed to be happy for that? And after Anastasia's memory is recovered, suddenly, this film has ended abruptly and confusingly. Hooray! The music is gorgeous, the voice acting is good and the romance between Anastasia and Alexander feels natural, but those details do not redeem this lackluster film.