Film2009114 min

Summer Wars

Name: Summer Wars
Genre: Animation
Released: 2009
Duration: 114 min
Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Takahiro Yokokawa, Mieko Nobusawa

Taste attributes: animationactionadventurerobots/ai/spaceholidaysfastwholesomelightimaginaryglossybig & variedemotionally undemandingcomplex relationshipfighting evilsolving the riddle/not as it seems

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Boxlist takeHeightened and light: a glossy animated film, big and varied rather than confined. Best if you like escapism over depth.

Taste details

Pace: fast · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: very light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: undemandingHow we score

Quality rating

7.5 /10

TMDB · 662 votes

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What lines up

Originality: Balanced originality, just how this profile likes it

What might not click

Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy
Emotional punch: Undemanding, where this profile leans emotive / stirring

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Synopsis

Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He’s good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has — until the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiancé at her family reunion. Things only get stranger from there. A late-night email containing a cryptic mathematic riddle leads to the unleashing of a rogue AI intent on using the virtual world of OZ to destroy the real world. As Armageddon looms on the horizon, Kenji and his new “family” set aside their differences and band together to save the worlds they inhabit in this “near-perfect blend of social satire and science fiction.”

Synopsis: TMDB