Cute. Inoffensive. Kind of boring. I will say, it gets Animal Crossing very right. You’re primarily watching a young girl move into town, work for Tom Nook, and have silly, nonsense conversations with the other villagers. All the while a boy of the same age can be seen running around in the background chasing bugs, making Pitfall Seed traps for the locals to get caught in, and generally just being a nuisance to represent how people actually play these games (What? I know that’s not only me!). There’s a vague kind of charm to it and small stuff like seeing a character make an outfit that everyone else starts immediately wearing after it’s sold in the local store brought back fond memories of my own personal experiences with the franchise, but it’s dull and not the least bit exciting to observe happen to someone else. The thing that’s made the series so popular despite being somewhat fairly mundane in terms of what you actually do is that genuine feeling players receive of carving a place for yourself in, building relationships with, and eventually belonging to the quirky little communities found in each entry. You simply can’t get that from a movie. This is the equivalent of sitting through some YouTuber’s LP where all they do is deliver packages and offer commentary on how “they’d really like to try their own cherry pie one day!” that they for whatever reason never cook (hands down the strangest element of the plot). Things do pick up near the end when the aliens weirdly show up and I admittedly got slightly emotional at the part where the girl’s animal friend leaves without saying goodbye, but that 87min runtime goes by so slowly that there are legitimately bad video game adaptations that I would rather rewatch than this.