Post 17 and we now take a look at the 2nd Bleach Movie Diamond Dust Rebellion.

The 10th Division of the Soul Society has been assigned to guard a sacred artifact until an unknown Soul Reaper steals it from under them but Toshiro Hitsugaya seems troubled by the assailant and goes off after him only to cause a great deal of commotion among the Soul Society as Rangiku and the rest of the 10th Division are stripped of their duty as Hitsugaya has broken the laws of the Soul Society but it soon becomes even more serious when Rukia and a small group of Soul Reapers start working out that the assailant is Hitsugaya's old friend Sojiro Kusaka who was killed because only one person can wield the Zanpakuto Hyorinmaru and by mistake there was two created and the Soul Society are just ass holes who can't see past their stupid traditions and rules.
Anyway Ichigo gets dragged into the scenario by finding Hitsugaya injured but Hitsugaya starts acting emo and saying "it doesn't involve you" but soon gets even more into trouble when he attacks a number of Soul Reapers trying to catch him which just makes him guilty of conspiring to steal the sacred artifact since another attack featured the exact same Zanpakuto.
Once Hitsugaya comes to his senses the whole Soul Society confront Kusaka who uses the artifact to warp reality and make himself all powerful and then the final battle begins.
This film is a poorly edited cut and paste hack job. Bleach is meant to be an action anime, a Shonen Jump action anime and it refused to show any action at all instead having flashes of characters using powers that would've been nice to see in full action. Ichigo's friends fight Kusaka's minions but we never see how; Hitsugaya fights a number of Soul Reapers but we don't see the finishing blow, same goes for Kusaka vs Kyoraku, we never see how the fight ended and to top off the madness they chose Hitsugaya as the focus of this 95 minute film, the least interesting character in the whole of Bleach and I've said before that Bleach does have interesting characters but refuses to use them and that's a real waste, the story itself is okay if done before but as a film it wouldn't really connect to the main series as canon nor does it make Hitsugaya's emoness anymore justified.
Dubbing is top quality but doesn't make the film any better.
20 minutes longer and actually showing us action would've saved this film.
Final Verdict: A horrific mess of poorly strung together scenes and a lack of anything action orientated in what's meant to be a Shonen Jump series made worse when you realize how far the franchise fell afterwards.