Summer Wars

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Watched this "Summer Wars" movie last week at a theater in Kawasaki. It was a great animation movie made by the same staff as "The girl who leapt through time". The story is heart warming and moving, though the plot was kinda obvious and there could be some more improvements so as all the "war" thing could be more realistic than this "Oz" system which is totally like Second Life.

I'll give it 4 out of 5: you should definitely watch this once it gets US releases.

Comments

[.tiff]

What exactly is the plot about? The animation looks great.

[miyagawa]

Don't want to spoil, but here's some quotes from http://www.nipponcinema.com/trailers/summer-wars-trailer/

When timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso (Ryunosuke Kamiki) is asked by older student and secret crush Natsuki (Nanami Sakuraba) to come with her to her family’s Nagano home for a summer job, he agrees without hesitation. Natsuki’s family, the Jinnouchi clan, dates back to the Muromachi era (1336 to 1573), and they’ve all come together to celebrate the 90th birthday of the spunky matriarch of the family, Sakae. That’s when Kenji discovers his “summer job” is to pretend to be Natsuki’s fiance and dance with her at the birthday celebration. As Kenji attempts to keep up with Natsuki’s act around her family, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone which, being a math genius, he can’t resist solving. As it turns out, the solution to the mysterious equation causes a bizarre parallel world to collide with Earth, and it’s up to Kenji and his new fake family to put reality back in order.

[Xris Ernest Hall]

I love this plot, since it's a combination of ludicrous farce and crazy science fiction, which are two genres you don't usually see combined (at least in the US.)

[.tiff]

Wow. Sounds awesome!

[miyagawa]

Yeah, the gap between sci-fi parallel world and traditional Japanese big family is the best part of this movie.

[Monster Paperbag]

I gotta check that out. Thanks for the post :)

[Term Papers]

Congratulation, Such a nice video,i really enjoying video, Really want to admire the director , Thanks for share this.