This global hit animated musical movie presents a trio of young female K-Pop superstars who are also Hunters, protectors of the world, having to defeat a demon boy-band whose aim is to wipe out the women's popularity and achieve global domination, leading to a grand face-off at the International Idol awards. Spawned from this age of manufactured stars, social media and hyper-realism, the editing propels the movie along at a frightening pace, with a vibrant colour palette heavy on neon purple and bubblegum pink and a lightweight collection of ridiculously catchy generic K-Pop bangers. Slick and polished to within an inch of its life, the film is designed to take hold of its young female audience and not let go from start to finish, but older viewers will find it quite bewildering and it all blurs into one after the first half-hour. The strong representation of the young female protagonists grappling with friendship, fame and personal identity is curiously undercut by their swooning devotion to the feminised pretty-boys' physical appearance. Propelled by the songs and its energetic style of presentation, it undoubtedly delivers for its target audience even if it is rather shallow overall. The mid-end-credits features the actual human artists making the music recordings.
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