Something happened behind the scenes that resulted in the final film's low quality
This comment from Phelous's review
sums it up pretty well:- "You know, the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that this movie is a victim of a lot of behind the scenes drama. I can easily imagine that they had a somewhat passable script written up, and they were halfway through animating it before they suddenly had to rewrite it. Then they couldn't get the actress who voiced Esmermelody to come back and read the new lines, so they had to rewrite the script again to accommodate for that...only for animators to go on strike or something. Thus, the mad scientists—I mean "editors" behind this "movie" had to cobble something together with what little they ended up with.I know that this is all pure speculation, but it explains a LOT. Like the weird scene continuity, why the instruments take away screentime from leads, the blinking stained-glass window (who I'm guessing was the character who controlled the front doors in the original draft), the random audio dip, and why they keep reusing the day dimension bat footage. Seriously—there's something fishy about this movie..."
