Fedranime reviews
Summer Wars
I should probably start out this review with a bit of a
schedule update. This is going to be my only review for a few weeks as I’m
going on a trip with my family and probably won’t be in a Wi-Fi hotspot long
enough for my to update consistently. Though on a different note I will try to
use my time in a Wi-Fi hotspot to catch up on Gurren Lagaan, so I’m hoping to
make that the subject of my next review. Also I’m happy to announce the all new
Fedranime reviews Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FedranimeReviewsofficial
! On this note I would like you to imagine if your Facebook, email, credit
card, and world of warcraft accounts were all on the same website with the
world economy and had been hacked, causing massive blackouts and world trauma.
Now imagine if you might have accidentally caused the global recession, all the
while pretending to be your friend’s fiancé at their family reunion. This is
probably the easiest way to some up the anime movie Summer Wars.
Summer Wars is a movie animated by studio Madhouse,
distributed by Warner Brothers international, and is dubbed by, who else,
Funimation Entertainment. The story follows Kenji, a high-school student and
math genius who is a programmer for OZ, a website which I suppose is like
having every major company and entire countries governments all stationed on a
website hat like a mix of every function your phone has, facebook, and world of
warcraft. His friend, Natsuki Shinohara, has asked him to do a favor for him,
pose as her fiancé so that she can show him to her grandmother on her 90th
birthday. One night at the Shinohara house, Kenji receives a text with a weird
algorithm which upon solving and sending back, releases a gigantic virus known
as Love Machine (it's a song) upon OZ that consumes others peoples avatars
until it looks like Enel from One Piece. Think of it kind of like Ranma ½ but
slightly more grounded in reality.
This is a good movie. I would say that one of the coolest
parts of the movie is the Shinohara family. You can tell that whoever was in
charge of scripting really fleshed out the entire family. Each member has their
own distinct personality and very few are unlikable, just Natsuki’s weird cousin
Shota who, I’m just going to say this, he’s like Jin from Blazblue only he
doesn't have a valid reason for his weird behavior and odd relationships with
his family. Still, that’s only one character that I didn’t like in the entire
movie, pretty good record they've got going for them. Also, OZ is amazingly
done. Remember how I said that High school of the dead had the best CG I’ve
ever seen in anime? Well since I was only about ten minutes into the second
episode I think my stupidity is forgiven. This movie has AMAZINGLY done
backgrounds and gives even the random avatars that are just cannon fodder for
love machine, each one has their own distinct look. That also brings up my next
good point; Love Machine is easily one of the best villains in anime history.
You remember the movie Game Over? Of course not that was a stupid low budget,
direct to VCR movie from the 90s. Well go watch the Spoony Experiment review
before reading the rest of this review, I’ll just sit here watching more crap
from studio Gainax. Done? Great think of Love Machine as the villain from that
movie done right. Love Machine does not talk, he does not care, he just sees
everything as a game and will blow up a nuclear power plant just for the lols.
There is one major flaw that I see with this movie. You
remember how I said that the family is one of the best parts of the movie? Well
good luck trying to remember every one of their names! Seriously I had to look
up the protagonist’s names before writing this; for the most part I just
remember them as Ninja Squid manly guy (don’t ask) and Evil
Mcamericanjapaneseilligitamatson. That also brings up my next problem; Love
Machine was developed by the American army. Why does everyone in Japan hate us
so much! I get that we have might not be the most accepting nation, but that’s
not all of us! It’s mostly the fault of the old people and big companies in
power that refuse to change! (Voted Obama, kinda prefer being a democrat)(Do
not hate) Also, you should be able to tell who the sort of antagonist is in
this movie right off the bat. Here’s a hint he claims to have forgotten Granny
Shinohara’s birthday and currently lives in America!
Is this a good movie? Yes! I can honestly say that after
watching this, it’s one of my favorite movies. Apparently the rest of America
thinks so to since this would have been nominated for an Oscar had the submissions
not been limited to about three movies in 2009. The animation is awesome and I
love how since this is technically a Warner Brothers movie, they actually got
the animators to have an anthropomorphic rabbit beat the ever loving crap out
of an annoying mouse! That’s it for this edition of Fedranime review, don’t
forget to leave suggestions and like the Facebook page. Catch you later.
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