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Impressive Visuals + Surprisingly Deep Characters = Better Than Your Average Anime
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Mar 30, 2011
- by Gonnawatchit
- posted in Movie Hype
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“Summer Wars” starts out like the worst kind of romantic comedy; a cute girl pays a nerdy guy to accompany her on a trip back home, and then shocks him by telling her family he’s her fiance. You totally expect Jennifer Aniston to pop up somewhere. But once it gets past this stupid excuse for a plotline, it becomes a really engaging movie. Turns out her family is actually interesting; they’re the proud but penniless descendants of a Samurai line, and there’s plenty of inter-family dynamics, old crushes on cousins, and shallowly buried hatchets to make things interesting. Twenty minutes in, and “Summer Wars” feels much more like a French family drama than the stupid American romcom it started out to be.
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About this movie
Cast:
John Swasey,
Michael Sinterniklaas,
Mike McFarland,
Todd Haberkorn,
Brina Palencia,
Maxey Whitehead,
J. Michael Tatum,
Shelley Calene-Black,
Pam Dougherty,
Lydia Mackay
Director:
Mamoru Hosoda
Genre:
Romance,
Animation,
Adventure,
Comedy,
Sci-Fi
Release Date:
1 August 2009 (Japan)
MPAA Rating:
PG
Screen Writer:
Mamoru Hosoda,
Satoko Okudera
Runtime:
114 min
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