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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, a review by Critter

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time



Anime Type: Movie

Year: 2006

Director: Hosoda, Mamoru

Plot:The power to travel through time... It can be used for the good of humanity, or just selfishly abused. While many may fantasize about obtaining such a power, it has become nothing less than reality for otherwise-normal schoolgirl Konno Makoto.

After a fated event, her life takes a turn for the extraordinary. Though she initially uses her power to literally "leap" into the past and change little things in order to make her life easier, she soon has to face the fact that changing the past can have drastic consequences.

My Thoughts:
This was a very entertaining and enjoyable film. I loved the contrast within the storyline of quite dark and gritty scenes as well as many light-hearted and often quite funny scenes. The clean and simple character animation worked well with the fantastic and largely detailed backgrounds which gave the film a strong atmosphere, and indeed, some scenes (one in particular) were eerily beautiful. The storyline of this film was one of many twisting paths and was quite complex, for that matter I feel it is a film I will have to watch more than once to really understand it fully. The Japanese voice acting in the film was very relaxed and suited all the characters well which gave them all believable personalities.

My Rating



(From Critter's Animated Film/Anime Marathon on January 14th, 2010)

Detour, a review by Antares

Detour (1945) 4/5 - I've lost count of all the films I've watched in my lifetime, but I can make this assessment without hesitancy...Ann Savage's character Vera, is the most evil bitch I've ever seen in a film. And she's great. I used to think that Out of the Past and Double Indemnity were the truest expression of Film Noir imagery and dialog, but Detour engraves the template that all successive noirs would follow. Sure it's low budget, and it's pieced together rather amateurishly in spots, but this doesn't diminish the power of the film. And the power rests solely in the performance of Ann Savage. I used to think of the ultimate femme fatale as played by Marie Windsor or Audrey Totter as the mold for the quintessential bad girl. But they have nothing on Ann Savage. Every second she's on screen, I felt a whirlwind of emotions towards her character, ranging from disgust and hatred, to lust and longing. It's a shame that they didn't have enough money to make a complete film, as there are many loose ends in the plot that could have been expounded on. Top tier noir!

(From Antares' Short Summations on August 16th, 2011)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Switch Reloaded: Vol. 1 (2007/Germany) IMDb | Wikipedia AL!VE, MerchandisingMedia, Turbine Classics (Germany) Length: 236 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: German: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles:

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(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on July 28th, 2012)