All the drama a "How To Draw Manga" book can offer.
Given that we're talking about an infamous animated movie with possibly the most atrocious animation ever shown in theaters made by people with the most minimal understanding of anime, it's no surprise that it features a lot of ridiculous moments.
- The entire film is supposed to be serious, but the mishandled Animesque style makes the film hard to be taken seriously.
- The battles with swords are too over the top with shonen clichés: two sword combatants approach each other in different takes or the sword attacks break people by half.
- At the beginning, Americo's father is having a fight with a slaver. All well and good, but then he's shown being surrounded by red energy like he was powering up the friggin' Kaioken
- At two points during Bolivar's childhood years, his hair is shown rising up out of anger like he's about to turn Super Saiyan. It's as ridiculous as it sounds.
- Despite the movie desperately wanting him to be taken seriously, Tiránico's name (which is just Spanish for "tyrannical") is so on the nose, especially for a movie based on historic events, that it's next to impossible.
- While the god-awful artstyle certainly doesn't help, the cartoon sound effects and "wah-wah" music being used in moments that are supposed to be taken seriously just ruin them even more.
- The movie abuses "Anime Eye Shines." While it's somewhat understandable to have it when a character is doing something badass or is shown planning something devious, it comes across as ridiculous when it's used for mundane stuff like Maria Teresa smiling at Bolivar after meeting him and when Bolivar sees Americo and Rosa falling in love.
- The utterly ATROCIOUS attempt at Eyedscreen with Tiranico threatening Americo at the end with how they used light gray for it instead of black and how sloppy it's drawn.
- Vicente Emparan is depicted with a look that can only be described as if Frollo and Yuda had an ugly baby.
- The way other South American countries decide to sign their own Acts of Independence is so rushed and anticlimatic that it basically boils down to "In Colombia they signed an Act of Indepedence, let's do it too here in Venezuela!", complete with a long awkward pause after signing. Who knew it was THAT easy, eh?
- Ricaurte's Heroic Sacrifice (which did happen in real life, by the way) is ruined because of the "DUN-DUN-DUN" music accentuating the weird zoom-ins before he blows up the powder.
- When Bolivar is shown telling his soldiers about his battle plans, he's doing it with a chalkboard that says, in big letters, "BATTLE STRATEGIES BY SIMON BOLIVAR" which comes across like he's teaching them like they're school students.
- To show Bolivar maturing and getting ready to return to America, they basically made him go through a Transformation Sequence where he gains bigger muscles and his hair becomes longer. Seeing a real-life hystorical figure transforming like an anime character is downright laughable.
- The movie being so constantly adamant in reminding the audience about Bolivar's destiny of becoming America's savior by making him and everyone sound like he's the Chosen One becomes more eyeroll-inducing than inspiring extremely quickly.
