![]() ![]() The storyline is a coming together of Tron, The Wizard Of Oz and War Games with a little bit of teen romance and family bickering thrown in for good measure. ![]() The film has just opened in the US – in a dubbed English-language version as well as occasional sub-titled screenings – and could well find a welcoming home with other international distributors who specialise in anime and Japanese film, with a life in home entertainment also likely. The battles are fought out in the magical world of Oz, and it is here that Hosoda’s animation really comes into its own, ranging from the artfully drawn through to the amusingly abstract.ĭirector Mamoru Hosoda (who has critical and commercial success with his 2006 anime The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) has great fun with his complex storyline, while the film’s style is unexpectedly multi-layered, veering between simple – almost TV-style – animation for the contemporary Japan scenes and wild and inventive computer-generated imagery for sequences set inside the internet. Summer Wars is an exciting and absorbing new anime that looks set to appeal to the teen fraternity with its mix of spectacular visuals, thoughtful family-orientated subplot and an obsession with computer gaming.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |