Summer Wars
2009, Sci fi/Anime, 1h 54m
23 Reviews 2,500+ RatingsWhat to know
Family drama mixes with virtual online action in the breezy and entertaining Summer Wars. Read critic reviews
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Kenji Koiso
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Natsuki Shinohara
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Kazuma Ikezawa
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Sakae Jinnouchi
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Wabisuke Jinnouchi
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Takashi Sakuma
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Critic Reviews for Summer Wars
All Critics (23) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (5)
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Far from resorting to easy, reactionary technophobia, Hosoda shows Japan's age-old traditions being upheld throughout different generations, with the beautifully realised digital community of OZ proving as much the solution as the problem.
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The filmmakers can't keep the strands of their clumsy plot straight, but they create brilliant images and manipulate them with blithe abandon.
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An enjoyably trippy Japanese animated feature from director Mamoru Hosoda, Summer Wars combines real-world drama (school crushes, testy relatives) with virtual-world dramatics.
January 20, 2011 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
The story's been done better (and balder) in Die Hard With A Vengeance
January 16, 2011 | Rating: c | Full Review… -
The relationship between Kenji and Natsuki unfolds as blandly as a Debra Messing rom-com.
January 14, 2011 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… -
It's a sugar rush of candy-colored images, a beautifully drawn tale of family tradition and a bracing brain tonic about the Internet's charms and vulnerabilities.
January 7, 2011 | Rating: 3/4
Audience Reviews for Summer Wars
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Nov 01, 2013A rogue artificial intelligence wrecks havoc on "Oz," an omnipresent virtual reality network of the near future, seizing control of most of the world's computers; a young math genius is the only hope to save the infrastructure. Decent juvenilia with outstanding psychedelic animations in the nonsensical but beautiful cyberspace battle scenes.Greg S Super Reviewer
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Feb 02, 2012In "Summer Wars," Kenji works as a part-time programmer with his friend Sakuma for OZ, a worldwide operating system/social network. He takes a break when he is invited by Natsuki to attend her great-grandmother's 90th birthday party. But he is horrified when she tries to pass him off as her fiance.(On the plus side, he turns an adorable shade of red.) That's not the worst thing that happens to him that weekend as OZ is corrupted and crashed by an outside source that is traced to him. So, he does the one thing he is supposed to when confronted by a computer problem which is to find the nearest kid to explain it to him. Even with its share of banalities and contrivances, "Summer Wars" is still an enjoyable animated film. While the sequences inside OZ are much more impressive than the ones set in the real world(and it would have been fun to have explored OZ a little more), the emotional core of the film is the extended Jinnouchi family that has more than its share of members employed in public service with the movie definitely in favor of collective action. In this way, you could say that Japan is not only a country that respects its traditions(as one family member recounts the family's military battles) but one that also looks towards the future. Just don't keep all of your eggs in one basket.Walter M Super Reviewer
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Jun 18, 2011Japanese animation with a boy-girl romance, a wacky extended family , virtual reality all mixed up into one. I usually find these kind of plots a bit tedious, and I lazily watched it in an American dub too, which rarely does these kind of films any favours. But it definitely had a charm, a colourful alternative reality and some nice little human interactions before the big-chase-to-save-the-world-before-it-blows-up kicks in for the action junkies. . <img src="http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/jicc/images/events/summer-wars-large.jpg">Lesley N Super Reviewer
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May 09, 2011From the people who brought us The girl who lept through time, which i loved, another slice of beautiful animation, and at its core, a relevent story of todays age. the perils of online living, here the world is connected to one online system, everything is on there, and when a code is broken unknowingly, it allows a hacker to mess with the system and cause destruction at highest order if not stopped, all this done through online consumers and acounts. certainly a warning of todays age, while in the system, avatars take control and the fight continues. wonderful animation, and engageing story, it makes sence when watched, as the hacked system causes mayhem on outside world, while digital world inside is very sci fi. a entertaining blend of animescott g Super Reviewer
Summer Wars (Sama Wozu) Quotes
| Sakae: | And you always eat together as a family, even during difficult times, because being hungry and being all alone are the worst things that can happen to anyone. |
| Sakae: | Never turn your back on family, even when they hurt you. Never let life get the better of you. And if you remember nothing else, remember to find time to eat together as a family. Even when times are rough; especially when times are rough. There's no lack of painful things in this world, but hunger and loneliness must surely be two of the worst.Thanks to you, my precious family, I didn't know a moment of either of those the last ninety years. |
| Kazuma: | It's no game, it's a sport. Games are for people who don't care enough. In sports, you compete to win. |
| Kenji Koiso: | Quitting won't do you any good; you have to work for an answer. |
| Kenji Koiso: | Quitting won't do you any good. You have to work for an answer. |
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