Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva: Difference between revisions

 

 

 

After solving the latest Don Paolo caper, Professor Layton puts on a record, sung by his former student Janice Quatlane. The Professor and Luke recount a case she involved them with three years ago, when she invited them along to an opera at the Crown Petone opera house. After the show, the guests are flung into a dangerous game, where the prize is said to be ''eternal life''. Meanwhile, a series of disappearances hits London, with young schoolgirls going missing. The Professor's assistant Emmy goes about investigating.

The movie received favorable reviews and is currently available in Japan and the United Kingdom; [[Viz Media]] has released the US version.

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* [[Action Girl]]: Emmy.

* [[Atlantis]]: Or in this case, the lost kingdom of Ambrosia. When their queen died, the people of Ambrosia drank the Elixir of Eternal Life and vanished along with their kingdom to await the day when she would return.

* [[Batman Cold Open]]: The movie starts with Layton and Luke coming to the end of an investigation regarding Big Ben.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Emmy and Grosky.

* [[But Now I Must Go]]: At the end, {{spoiler|Melina decides that she can no longer keep living through Janice, bids everyone farewell, and peacefully passes on.}}

** The Elysian Box (again, from ''Diabolical/Pandora's Box'') can be seen next to the TV when Emmy is at Dr. Schrader's house.

** Claudia, the cat from ''Curious Village'' (or at least a [[Expy|near-identical cat]]), can be seen curled up on the couch at Nina's house.

* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: In order to find the proper test subject, the [[Big Bad]] built a cruise liner, with an opera house on it, and filled it with historical artifacts. And then blew it up. To get ''one'' test subject. That's a very expensive plan, especially since he had no way of knowing whether or not the experiment would work on the subject he got a hold of.

** That's it? What about the giant fortress which {{spoiler|unfolds into a stories-tall battle mecha with saw blades, missiles, crab claws, flailing hoses and spider legs, all with a giant pipe organ on top}}, which is only for {{spoiler|playing the song to reveal the secret of immortality}}. Or the brainwashed wolves and sharks. That's some serious security for a deserted island. Or what about the mashup pipe organ which secretly {{spoiler|can copy a person's mind into another person}}? Which... if you can do that, who needs {{spoiler|immortality}} anyway? In retrospect, the giant opera house/cruise ship full of treasures and puzzles {{spoiler|held absolutely no relevance to the villain's plan whatsoever}}. On the contrary, it's what brought Professor freaking Layton and Luke in to begin with, which is basically BEGGING for your plan to be DOOMED.

* [[Disney Villain Death]]: {{spoiler|Descole... except that they [[Never Found the Body]].}}

* [[Easily Forgiven]]: Averted. After the climax, {{spoiler|Grotsky claims arrest on Mr. Whistler for kidnapping school girls in an attempt to bring back Melina. [[Pet the Dog|He at least gives him, when asked, the chance to play the Detragan one last time in her memory]].}}

* [[I See London]]: Grotsky uses his trousers as a flag to attract a rescue plane.

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Of all people, it's [[Kid Sidekick|Luke Triton]] who gets the most badass scene in this entire film, risking his life in a frankly suicidal attempt to save Janice.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: The kingdom of Ambrosia, rumored to hold the secret of eternal life, is named after the food of the gods in [[Greek Mythology]] that gives its eater ageless immortality.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: The film is like watching someone play a Professor Layton game, with the plot being based entirely around solving puzzles and a music player that plays the puzzle tunes among other things. Despite there only being 4 puzzles in the film, they're still numbered 001-004, just as they would be in a [[Professor Layton]] game.

* [[There Can Only Be One]]: The gift of Eternal Life can only be given to the one that passes all the challenges. {{spoiler|However, as stated above in [[The Reveal]], it was all just a ruse to get Amelia to take on Melina's memories.}}

* [[Say My Name]]: "''LUUUUUUUKE!''" "''LAAAAAAAYTOOOOON''"

* [[Show Within a Show]]: The opera Janice stars in.

* [[Stylistic Suck]]: What little we see of the opera isn't ''bad'', per se, but all the songs have the same melody, and the vocals don't sound much like opera.

 

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