User blog comment:Ceras SanMarina/The Movie (Possible spoilers! No, probable spoilers?)/@comment-1271618-20100606005908

Actually, the recap's not the island. It's just recycled scenes from episodes of the anime added into random parts of the movie. Like, there will be the movie plot then suddenly, it will cut to a random clip from an episode.

The island's actually useful...sort of, if only as a convenient place for them to battle the aliens. And Rome to rise from the sea...again.