Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart: The Movie

Futari wa Pretty Cure MaX Heart: The Movie is, as the title suggests, a tie-in movie to the Max Heart TV series. It released in theatres on April 16th, 2005.

In it, the Dark Witch attacks the Garden of Hope, and the mascots who live there enlist Cure Black, Cure White, and Shiny Luminous to help fight her off.

This movie launched a massive line-up of Pretty Cure movies, the first to follow being Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart 2: Friends of the Snow-Laden Sky.

Tropes:

• Axes Mundi: The Diamond Line, the queen's jewelry, is filled with enough power to transmit the light of hope all throughout the universe. When the Witch steals a piece of it, the Garden of Hope begins to fall out of balance, which threatens the entire planet.
• Bat Out of Hell: The Witch's minions are a horde of Zakenna bats, which are all bigger than the heroines and highly aggressive.
• Big Bad: The Witch is the main antagonist of the film.
• Cool Boat: The Witch travels in an ominous floating Ghost Ship. It's actually a Zakenna, which she can command to reveal a gigantic shark inside... a shark that shoots frickin' laser beams, at that!
• Crush Blush: Nagisa blushes when she's approached by Fuji-P.
• Derelict Graveyard: The Witch's hideout is in a "Graveyard of Ships" in the middle of the cosmos. Cure Black briefly wonders if mysteriously vanished ships from Earth wind up there.
• Disney Death: The battle in the Graveyard of Ships goes very poorly, and it's thought that Marquise was killed in the ensuing shipwreck. It later turns out that he landed safely inside the Witch's Fluffy Fashion Feathers.
• Girls Love Chocolate: Nagisa's love of chocolate is brought up when she remembers wanting to stock up, giving her and Honoka the strength to keep fighting.
• Golden Super Mode: In the final battle, the Garden of Hope's seven knights come together to lend the Cures their power, which gives their outfits a golden Palette Swap.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Non-death example: Shiny Luminous takes an attack from the Dark Witch to save the prince, knocking herself unconscious.
• Horse of a Different Color: A white horse with turquoise hair appears in the Garden of Hope. The Prince uses it as his mount in the climax.
• Idiot Ball: A large portion of the conflict in the third act of the first movie is because of a few characters being oddly stupid in the second act. Despite knowing that the most likely time for the witch to attack the Kingdom of Hope and steal the Diamond Line, the ceremony, is mere minutes away and they should logically be on high alert:
  • Several of the Warriors of Hope conclude that the presence of Pretty Cure scared the witch off and she won't be coming, as if the ceremony had already happened or something. They promptly attempt to slack off.
  • Nagisa, offended by Square, decides to not only run out of the room, but across the entire castle, ensuring she is nowhere near Honoka. She even acknowledges that this leaves the Diamond Line much more vulnerable and renders the entire purpose of their being in the Kingdom of Hope pointless... but decides that it would be too awkward to head back immediately.
  • Honoka, Hikari, Mepple, Mipple and Porun also make no effort to bring Nagisa back after she runs off. None of them think to inform anyone else of the fact that they have to be together to transform, either.
  • So, of course, the witch attacks at exactly the time they all thought she would, steals the Diamond Line with little resistance and injures the queen. Way to go, everyone.
• If It Swims, It Flies: The Witch's Ghost Ship flies through the air with no problems.
• King Mook: The "boss bat" Zakenna is bigger and stronger than the others, and it has a mane of spiky blond hair that the others lack.
• Pink Means Feminine: Nagisa's party dress is hot pink.
• Product Placement: The film's main motif, diamonds, is due to a sponsorship from the jeweller that produced the Diamond Line in real life.
• Theme Naming: All of the movie-exclusive mascots have names relating to either shapes or gemstone cuts.
• Villain Opening Scene: The movie begins with the Witch looking upon her crystal ball and planning to steal the Diamond Line.
• World Shapes: The Garden of Hope is a planet that's shaped like a huge diamond floating in space.

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