It so happened that we watched the movie \u201cCode Lyoko: A Second Chance\u201d in a few people, and after watching it together during the Centrum Lyoko meeting, we came up with the idea to write a review. But not one, but several. It came out in the end that we can present you with four voices, four opinions about this production. Alphabetical order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Classico:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That this fandom can create seriously great projects is nothing new, so I was very excited to see \u201cSecond Chance\u201d – the movie finally has one of the most recognizable names in our community behind it. Before I get to reviewing, I need to outline one thing – That this movie was made is a miracle, and one should appreciate the zeal and determination to see such a project through to completion, regardless of the flaws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I regret to say that Code Lyoko: A Second Chance unfortunately did not appeal to me. The animation quality in the 2D sections is very inconsistent. Shots sometimes don’t connect into an understandable whole – characters \u201cjump\u201d between poses and positioning, which makes it hard to follow what’s going on in some scenes. This is only compounded by the fact that the author mixes animations on assets from IFSCL with his drawings. On the other hand, it’s also easy to find frames that look like they were lifelike pulled from the TV series, here you can see \u00d6zberk’s real potential, I just wish the rest of the 2D scenes would keep the same level\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And how are things in Lyoko? Here the situation is reversed by 180 degrees! The animations of the virtual world, fights, characters are of really good quality despite small stumbles here and there (I literally counted only 2 scenes that deviated from the standard). The fight scenes in Lyoko are some of the better 3D animations in \u00d6zberk’s catalog, and I praise him here for animating them single-handedly! Plus Odd’s design may be my favorite of the release trumping even those of the TV series!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Plot-wise, I’m torn. Here we have some really good concepts for a story that has yet to be told, but I feel like each one is sabotaged by its execution. Watching the first act I was pumped up in my seat imagining what we would see as Aelita succeeds. Unfortunately, what we get next gives the impression that the screenwriters hesitated, and the plot spends the rest of the time in equal limbo as the students in Kadic, and we are left with a measly 20 minutes to actually explore the return plot. Another downside is the logic holes that pull out of the immersion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The plus side of \u201cSecond Chance\u201d is the characters – they were written well, their motivations and characters mostly decked out with their TV series counterparts. The exchanges between Aelita, and Yumi, William and Ulrich are a highlight as much as the fights that accompany them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the day, Code Lyoko: A Second Chance is a solid piece of fan work done mostly single-handedly, once again I salute \u00d6zberk for seeing this project through to completion! Personally, I think that with a bit more of a team, or with a longer \u201cstay in the oven,\u201d we could have executed this movie much better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jeremie_96:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It took two years to produce \u201cCode Lyoko: A Second Chance.\u201d Just the fact that such a complex project came to fruition can be appreciated, because there have already been some projects that were announced hype and from which nothing then came out. Here, fortunately, it was different and a pretty cool thing came out for the anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Graphics I won’t pick on, because yes, some scenes come off worse than others, but I’m taking the allowance here for the fact that this is a fan project, on top of that made without any fundraising. Besides, it’s well known that with this type of initiative, often the technical capabilities don’t even allow these types of aspects to look like the big studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead, I will focus on the plot idea, something that is not dependent on money. And here it looks really good. On the one hand, the seed is as one has often encountered in fanfic, i.e. that we are after the events of the end of season 4 and Aelita still can’t deal with it. On the other hand, she has a plan to maybe do something after all. And it all makes sense, has a proper logical basis, and is reasonably well-paced. Although I’m a bit puzzled by how Aelita managed to keep what she was doing a secret. I’m leaving aside sneaking out of school, that was practiced, but the whole mind map in the room, the other in the factory\u2026 no one was interested in that? Maybe it was actually considered that Aelita needed to be let alone, but even Jeremy was not that active to help her although he wanted to in the movie. By the way, it comes up later, because we have a scene very reminiscent of one of the episodes of season 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, this movie also has its shortcomings, which can be seen in the second part. For example, why, although 10 police cars entered the bridge in front of the factory, no one entered the building? I also know that some people were surprised by the tactic adopted of betting on the towers instead of a collective ambush on Aelita, but here I will defend the authors, because the idea was probably to enhance the drama. However, one must also admit that such a dark side of Aelita has been introduced, which she tries to fight a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Watching the second half, I also had the impression that they wanted to cram everything in and at the same time not make the whole thing very long. It came out at 71 minutes, so quite a lot for a fan production. On the other hand, you can see that at a certain point it starts to go a bit haywire, there are only barely glimpsed issues that are not explained to the viewer, and you can feel that they are put there a bit as filler, so that the idea doesn’t get wasted. At times I had a bit of a problem reading the intention of inserting just such a plot and not another, which is a pity, because the backstory that is there sounds really interesting and begs to be developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I also think that a bit of this production is harmed by the lack of any side plots. It would have begged for at least a few minutes to be devoted to showing how the other characters deal with all this, and this could have been done without losing the character of the movie. And it is clearly Aelitocentric. It’s our pink-haired angel who probably has signs of PTSD who is the main focal point, which is also perfectly understandable. But still, it would have been nice to give a bit more of that \u201cordinary life\u201d familiar from the episodes here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway – it’s good that this movie was made, it’s good that you can watch it (even if the automatic Polish subtitles on YouTube give \u201cMr. Idiot\u201d instead of \u201cMr. Director\u201d), it’s good that this fandom is still alive, and such productions prolong that life. And who knows, maybe this is not the last word from Ozbek and his team?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mayakovsky:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n At the outset, I would like to point out one key fact: \u201cCode Lyoko – A Second Chance\u201d is a fan production. Although Ozberk Ozen is extremely talented and the end result of his work is impressive, he is only a fan, not a professional studio employing full-time professionals. It’s worth keeping this in mind before watching, as those expecting a high-budget production stuffed to the brim with visual water fireworks are likely to be disappointed. Instead, it’s better to appreciate, for example, that the movie has full English dubbing and its own soundtrack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If I had to describe this movie with one word, I think I would choose the term \u201cuneven.\u201d We will find in it both very good moments – sometimes even equaling the cartoon – and quite a few weaker ones. This applies to both the visual side and the storyline. I won’t particularly dwell on the former – I’ll just say that both in and out of Lyoko you can feel the atmosphere familiar from the cartoon, and that’s why I’ll turn a blind eye to some shortcomings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the plot, on the other hand, I’ll devote more space and rate it a bit more harshly, because here the budget and workload should be much less of an issue. The primary heroine here is definitely Aelita – the other Lyoko Warriors are here too, of course, but still the movie focuses on them a little less than on the pink-haired one. And this, in my opinion, is a good decision, because it would have been very difficult to pack a separate storyline for each of them into a slightly-plus-hour movie. I also really liked the idea of the plot – it is both simple, original and believable. With the latter term, some fans disagree and accuse the movie that Aelita does not behave as in the cartoon. And theoretically this is true, but this behavior did not come \u201cout of thin air\u201d at all, but results from the course of events – so I stand in defense of the creator here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And while overall the plot moves in the right direction throughout, there are some shortcomings. While watching (and we watched the movie with several people) a couple of times there were questions along the lines of \u201cwhy doesn’t X do Y\u201d to which we couldn’t find meaningful answers. A couple of times it was a bit of clinging to details, but once or twice the behavior was quite strongly bizarre and drastically affected the plot. I was also slightly disappointed with the ending. Of course, I don’t want to give it away, so I’ll put it this way: looking at the cartoon, I’m not entirely convinced that it actually works that way. Because if it actually worked that way, the Warriors would have had a gigantic problem at the very beginning of their adventures. This sounds very enigmatic, but I hope that after the watching it will be clear what I meant here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If so, do I recommend \u201cCode Lyoko – A Second Chance\u201d? By all means! If only because it was very cool to sit in front of the screen with the knowledge that in a moment I will watch a new part of Code Lyoko. And although the end result is not perfect, there are many positive elements in it. It is clear that Ozberk put a lot of effort and passion into the production. That’s why I hope we’ll see a sequel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wykl\u0119ty:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Second Chance is a fan animated movie by \u00d6zberk \u00d6zen, we get 71 minutes of movie in which we watch Aelita experiencing grief over the loss of her father trying to cope with reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the beginning I think it is worth noting one thing in particular – I would by no means judge the quality of graphics or animation. We must take into account that this is a fan production and the creation of graphics or animation is really, but really a very difficult task. A few minutes is a feat, more than an hour – a real peak. We should appreciate the author and his team for taking on this task and delivering a long fan movie of a cartoon that is already 22 years old. We are not getting more fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have to praise the movie’s plot idea. Set a year after the events of the fourth season, Aelita is in a state of deep depression after losing her Dad, so much so that she decides to take a desperate step to rebuild her life. The characters of Code Lyoko have been through the truest hell, having had so many situations so stressful that they should all be under the supervision of a psychologist. Aelita in particular has suffered cruelly, her Dad died and she can’t even tell anyone outside about it. There is no way to work through the cruel events well, and as soon as she sees a glimpse of chance to get back those she loved\u2026 she decided to reach for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That said, the movie has its problems, however. There are logic holes: how was Aelita able to go back in time, actively change it, and not alter the present timeline? The slightest change should trigger a cascade of changes, the present Lyoko Warriors shouldn’t even be there. Shouldn’t Jeremy have noticed along the way that Aelita is popping off months into the factory? How did that tornado not destroy the lab? The battles were quite ill-conceived: if the Lyoko Warriors split up because they didn’t know where to look for Aelita\u2026 all they had to do was gather quickly as soon as the first Lyoko Warrior found her. Aelita behaved extremely aggressively during battles. At times she stopped resembling a human being and more like a wild animal full of fury. Ulrich made the mistake of underestimating his opponent, which I don’t believe he would have made and William\u2026 knowing what was going on in the world, having a prejudice against the supercomputer and seeing Aelita’s condition simply gave up. Many events were deliberately stretched to the limit by which the movie does not hold together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a very big problem with trying to pack too many plots into one. We are introduced to a conversation between Aelita’s parents and their friends from which\u2026 nothing in the movie itself results. We learn new facts about the construction of the supercomputer or the history of XANA\u2026 but this too has no consequences for the course of the plot. The viewer is not able to concretely understand what is happening while watching and where the plots lead. I guess that the author is trying to build the world for a potential next movie, but unfortunately the cost of this is too little time to properly build what is important in the movie. Perhaps that’s why the emotions seem so shallow to me here – there’s no space to develop them at the right pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In my opinion, the movie should have been broken into two or even maybe three productions, each focusing on a specific theme. If the first movie had only told the story of Aelita’s emotional state and built up the tension until the grand finale in which she passes through the portal, it would have been possible to design the elements of the fights and tell the story of the internal conflict that hounded each of the characters differently. The second movie would have had a better chance to properly tell the story of Aelita’s parents’ secrets, maybe even with elements of some shocking thrill-inducing discovery. Here a lot would already depend on how the author would decide to drive the plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No less, speaking of the above flaws, one thing should still be kept in mind. This is a movie that \u00d6zberk took two years to make. We can estimate that he would have needed as much as four or five years to properly run the plot of A Second Chance alone. This is a tremendous amount of diligent work in his spare time, which few people would have the strength for. That’s why I’m glad that although the movie has its shortcomings, I still had a chance with a smile on my lips to watch something new from my favorite childhood cartoon. Enjoy a little return to the past. For this, Mr. \u00d6zberk, for all your hard work – hats off to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It so happened that we watched the movie \u201cCode Lyoko: A Second Chance\u201d in a few people, and after watching it together during the Centrum Lyoko meeting, we came up with the idea to write a review. But not one, but several. It came out in the end that we can present you with four …\/\/\/<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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