Movies fine for a first time watch?

My friend has never seen Gurren Lagann and I want to watch it with him. However, If we watched the whole show we wouldn’t be able to reasonably get through it one day. That would be fine but our schedules don’t line up very often, so I have no idea when we’d get a chance to finish it. So I was thinking of maybe doing the movies instead since we could get through those in one day. Do you guys think the movies would be fine for a first watch? I’ve never seen them myself, so I don’t know how much they actually cut out and if it would be too compromised of an experience for a first viewing. Just looking for thoughts