5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Time Zeppelin, ready for launch!
- Heaven is in Danger.
Paradapia will Fall.
Doraemon: Nobita's Sky Utopia is the 42nd film in the Doraemon Film Series, and the first entry since Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island to follow an original premise.
After hearing Dekisugi describe Thomas More's Utopia, getting back a failed test, and seeing a flash of a Crescent Moon Island in the sky, Nobita convinces Doraemon and Shizuka to help him search for the fantasy land. Joined by Gian and Suneo, the gang take to the skies in Doraemon's new Time Zeppelin and find Paradapia, the titular Sky Utopia, in which everyone can become perfect.
However, under the glittering surface of Paradapia lies a massive conspiracy...
The movie was released on 3 March, 2023. An early trailer can be seen here
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Doraemon: Nobita's Sky Utopia contains examples of:
- Actually a Doombot: When the gang finally get them cornered after they break free from their control, the Three Sages reveal themselves to be mere robots controlled by Dr. Ray, who's angered by their misbehaviour and shows himself out of frustration.
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Nobita realizes that Paradapia is the Dragon Palace of Japanese Mythology and theorizes that all legends about utopias stemmed from Paradapia at various points in time and space.
- Big Bad: Doctor Ray, who invented light that manipulates people and wants to take over the world with it.
- Bigger on the Inside: The Time Zeppelin, which becomes a plot point as the gang and Sonya are able to evacuate all of the residents of Paradapia (and their livestock) onto it.
- Bounty Hunter: Marimba is one from the future.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Due to being continuously exposed to Paradapia's brainwashing light, Shizuka, Gian, and Suneo slowly succumb to the Three Sages' control to the point of becoming obedient emotionless puppets. Nobita himself eventually gets affected when exposed to Neo Paradapian Light, yet he still doesn't fully succumb to it.
- Brightness Shadows: The shadows cast on the gang when Paradapia explodes take this form.
- The Bus Came Back: A gadget example; the Three-Wheel Plane (a Cool Plane gadget that can be piloted by a single person) was last seen in the 2005 anime series. Instead of a gadget, this iteration has a five-pack of the planes gifted to Doraemon after he buys the Time Zeppelin.
- Colorful Contrails: As seen on the promotional poster, the gang's new planes leaves behind trails of colored smoke that corresponds with their planes. Though as of yet it's unknown if the same thing happens in the film.
- Cool Airship: The Time Zeppelin, an airship Doraemon buys for this adventure. It's also a Bigger on the Inside Time Machine that can teleport, allowing the gang to live comfortably and travel through time and space on their search for Utopia.
- Crescent Moon Island. Paradapia is a floating mechanical version.
- Dead Hat Shot: After Paradapia explodes, Sonya's scarf is seen falling out of the sky.
- Floating Continent: Paradapia is a city located in the skies comprised of various floating platforms around one main island.
- Hope Spot: It seems that Nobita and Doraemon are able to get through to Sonya while he and the Paradapian forces are chasing them through the Time Portal, but the Three Sages reassert their power over him and he shoots them anyway.
- Hostile Weather: The gang flies the Time Zeppelin through a sudden thunderstorm on their way to Paradapia while being attacked by unknown assailants.
- Exact Eavesdropping: Gian and Suneo just happen to be leaning on a nearby wall as Nobita is talking about searching for Utopia.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Sonya shoots out the gang's Hopters to take the bag holding the exploding remnants of Paradapia into the atmosphere alone, getting blown to pieces in the resulting explosion. Downplayed in that Doraemon finds his memory module and takes it to the 22nd century to have it placed in a new body, so he's not totally dead.
- Hover Bike: Unlike the gang, who use Three-Wheel Planes, Sonya uses a mag-lev speeder bike as his transport.
- I Just Want to Be Special: This is part of Nobita's motivation to stay in Paradapia, as he wanted to learn to be perfect like its citizens. But due to his clumsiness and incompetence, he couldn't catch up to their lessons like Shizuka, Gian, and Suneo. This is also why he initially doesn't believe Hanna and Marimba's warning about the Three Sages' true motivation until he witnesses how docile his friends become on the next day, as he genuinely wanted to change for the better and thought that they could help him with it.
- Immune to Mind Control: Apart from the robotic Doraemon, Nobita doesn't get affected by Paradapia's brainwashing light due to his personality. It takes blasting him with Neo Paradapian Light for him to finally fall under the Three Sage's control, and he still refuses to shoot Doraemon under their orders.
- Impossibly-Compact Folding: The Three-Wheel Planes start out the size of toys, before suddenly unfolding and expanding itself until large enough to carry a single person.
- Lilliputians: Marimba, a bounty hunter girl transformed into an anthropomorphic ladybug after a botched attempt to turn her back to normal after both Nobita and Doraemon mistook her for a villain and turned her into a ladybug.
- Mind-Control Eyes: Characters under the control of the Three Sages sport these up close.
- Mythology Gag: There's a couple from the trailer that references past movies:
- The premise of a hidden world in the clouds, which might suffer some sort of cataclysm that Doraemon and friends must prevent, not unlike Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds.
- The gang braves through a storm while aboard their transport, much like Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island (with a gadget-laden airship in place of a gadget-laden pirate ship).
- Out-of-Character Alert: As the gang continue to live in Paradapia, Shizuka, Gian and Suneo slowly become nicer and more docile. While it is somewhat dismissed at first and even perceived as a good thing, it gets to the point of them being too nice when Nobita deliberately tries to push their buttons, only to be dismissed. It's because they're being affected by Paradapia's brainwashing light, which puts them under the Three Sage's control.
- Outside Ride: In the middle of an intense chase shown in the trailer, Doraemon managed to jettison from his plane and land into Nobita's as it passed right below him.
- The Paragon Always Rebels: Hanna, the class president, is the resident who wants Paradapia taken down the most, and recruits Doraemon and Nobita to her side.
- Relocating the Explosion: Sonya takes the exploding Paradapia up into the sky, where it blows up without hurting anyone in the gang's hometown.
- Shrink Ray: Sonya has one and uses it several times throughout the film.
- Simple Score of Sadness: One plays towards the end over Sonya's sacrifice and its aftermath. It starts out as a Lonely Piano Piece, with strings and woodwinds coming in halfway through.
- Stable Time Loop: The climax of the film, when the Three Sages decide to invade the gang's hometown, takes place on the day they started their expedition as they unintentionally travel back in time. Most notably, the blue beetle that landed on Nobita at the beginning of the movie was actually a transformed Doraemon.
- Time Police: Marimba is working with them, and they've been looking for Paradapia for a long time.
- Void Between the Worlds: One of the action scenes shown in the trailer is a chase sequence through one such void.
- We Want Our Jerk Back!: Nobita to Gian and Suneo after he realizes the extent to which their personalities have changed.
