Summer Wars

Hosoda, who directed the cult film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time," has made a sophisticated yet poignant family entertainment with an appeal beyond Japanese animation buffs.

Summer Wars surprisingly celebrates togetherness and bravery as much as binary-mathematics expertise, all helped along by a kick-ass synthesis of traditional hand-drawn scenes and fluid, rainbow-explosive CG artistry.

Summer Wars has engineered a truce between the familiar and the fantastical.

In Summer Wars, it's what's old that's made to seem refreshingly new.

It's the kind of fun and quirky film that you don't see very often in art houses this time of year.

Considering it's anime, Summer Wars starts out more like a bad romantic comedy.

It's hard to appreciate things like the character detail amid the insufferably squealy voicing and arbitrary suspense.

Inspiring and definitely one that should be viewed with family. This movie is one that I remember for years to come. An unbeatable blend of action, comedy, and romance with an innovative plot with possibly the greatest grandmother movies has ever had. I meant it.

I grew up loving the Digimon movie as a kid. Call it nostalgia or just a general love of everything digimon. When I was told by my friend that there was a movie that was basically Our War Game by the same director but more complete, cohesive and "way better" I was excited. After watching Summer Wars I find myself underwhelmed and I'm a little sad about that. The movie visually is great especially during the parts that take place online. The visual style is unique and it's amazing to see the creativity that went into the character design. The fight scenes look cool, but it feels like it lacks weight. You never know the desiciveness of a blow because there isn't really a measure between stron and week, which just means 2 thing hitting each other looks cool but you can't really tell how important those hits are. The movie's biggest let down for me is the story. It starts off very contrived and it just expects you to go along with it even though actions and decisions of characters really don't make sense. Character motivations change frequently and often for no reason. The story also moves really slowly because it has so many side characters and stories it tries to juggle, which do all build to something, but it dosent really feel worth all the extra time. The movie isn't all bad though, its large family of characters feel real (almost too real at points). Having a large extended family myself I saw a lot of things that were way to relatable which is a shame, because if given a better story it could feel amazing and connected to me on a much deeper level. Overall Summer Wars isn't a bad movie, it's just not a movie I enjoyed. The visual stile was amazing and the family was relatable, but it's all bogged down with a slow story that feels contrived at points. I can't really recommend it highly, but it might be worth your time if you want to see a Digimon movie without the Digimon.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Une mièvrerie débile à souhait (pour ceux qui le souhaitent) et à volonté (pour ceux qui en veulent et en redemandent ... de la débilité à la nipponne !) mélangée à des réseaux sociaux ou plutôt un gigantesque réseau social qui pique une grosse colère (et de gros bugs) !... en somme, un gros tas de japoniaiserie très concentrée qui se la joue "branchouille" (ou branchecouilles comme on dit dans ma campagne) à donf ! Et qui nous fait chier à fond les ballons avec ses pathétiques conneries de pseudo-scénario qui n'avance pas, de caricatures ambulantes et autres clichés qui errent, ressassés à l'envi dans ce déambulatoire où tout, absolument tout se marche sur les pieds et dans la prétention (un sacré paquet de prétention à peigne-culs branchecouilles donneurs de leçons, ça déborde de partout !). Quand on est pas coincé dans la caritcature, on est encerclé ici par des têtes à claques et autres tronches de cake qui racontent n'imp' et qui auraient bien besoin d'une bonne distribution de coups de pied au cul... et d'ailleurs le scénario (qui a clairement abusé du saké) en aurait bien besoin, lui aussi, lui qui s'étire sur presque deux plombes inutiles, navrantes et consternantes, emballées dans un mauvais goût permanent et une technique à la rue !

It was the biggest waste of my time. I hated every living second of this movie.