Summer Wars (Sama Wozu)
Kenji is a teenage math prodigy recruited by his secret crush Natsuki for the ultimate summer job - passing himself off as Natsuki's boyfriend for four days during her grandmother's 90th birthday celebration. But when Kenji solves a 2,056 digit math riddle sent to his cell phone, he unwittingly breaches the security barricade protecting Oz, a globe-spanning virtual world where millions of people and governments interact through their avatars, handling everything from online shopping and traffic control to national defense and nuclear launch codes. Now a malicious AI program called the Love Machine is hijacking Oz accounts, growing exponentially more powerful and sowing chaos and destruction in its wake.
Pretty high on visuals and imagination with a pretty solid human story, though only to be halted by (what I considered) some overacting and huge sentimental aspects. The tricky thing when making a movie about a large family is the pacing and time given in getting to know each of the family members, whom some have colorful personalities and the film achieved this half way. Some contribute to the flow of the story and some brought it to a halt. What I found annoying was the main character, Kenji, brought along into the family and was painted as an absurdly wimpy guy. You just want to shake him so much and tell him to be a man! In a way, its just a nice enjoyable animated film to look at.
3 out of 5 stars
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