Synopsis
A student tries to fix a problem he accidentally caused in OZ, a digital world, while pretending to be the fiancé of his friend at her grandmother's 90th birthday.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Ryunosuke KamikiKenji Koiso (voice)
- Nanami SakurabaNatsuki Shinohara (voice)
- Mitsuki TanimuraKazuma Ikezawa (voice)
- Sumiko FujiSakae Jinnouchi (voice)
- Ayumu SaitoWabisuke Jinnouchi (voice)
- Takahiro YokokawaTakashi Sakuma (voice)
- Kiyomi TanigawaYukiko Shinohara (voice)
- Mutsumi SasakiKazuo Shinohara (voice)
- Mieko NobusawaMariko Jinnouchi (voice)
- Takuya KirimotoRiichi Jinnouchi (voice)
Recommendations
- 80
Time Out
Summer Wars surprisingly celebrates togetherness and bravery as much as binary-mathematics expertise, all helped along by a kick-ass synthesis of traditional hand-drawn scenes and fluid, rainbow-explosive CG artistry. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Running almost two hours, its increasingly convoluted narrative may be too difficult to follow for younger viewers. But its thematic ambition and dazzling visual style ultimately make it one of the more rewarding anime efforts to reach these shores. - 80
Los Angeles Times
Hosoda, who directed the cult film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time," has made a sophisticated yet poignant family entertainment with an appeal beyond Japanese animation buffs. - 78
Austin Chronicle
Summer Wars is a magnificently manufactured piece of film entertainment that goes beyond the obvious and manages to comment, often obliquely, on everything from Facebook to virtual war and/or terrorism without ever seeming heavy-handed or strident. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
It's the kind of fun and quirky film that you don't see very often in art houses this time of year. - 75
Boston Globe
In Summer Wars, it's what's old that's made to seem refreshingly new. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
An enjoyably trippy Japanese animated feature. - 70
The New York Times
There's a lovely, unhurried quality to Mr. Hosoda's storytelling, which nicely matches the clean, classically composed images of his outer story.
