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Technically any good? The acting was fine and the animation was gorgeous. However, without an interesting story, I got bored fast. The story and script for this anime was as cliche as they come. The only thing not cliche was the ending which was unsatisfying. On top of that, this anime falls prey to a trap that no piece of animated art should ever fall prey to: there was no reason for this anime to be animated.
It was all realistically done, there were no monsters, no spaceships (well, there was one, but it could have been easily CGed)--it was just a straight romance that I probably would have enjoyed more if it was live action. Not everything has to be scifi/fantasy or crazy story-wise in animation, but for crying out loud, do something that you can only do in animation--camera angles that would be impossible to do with live action, SOMEthing. I suppose some of the train sequences would have been a pain to shoot live-action, but I'm thinking paying people to draw 24 pictures per second as opposed to hiring some people to shoot in the snow would be more expensive.
How did it leave me feeling? Unsatisfied. This "movie" is divided into three uneven chunks, one of which could be a completely different story but involved a character from the main storyline for no reason that seemed required. Ultimately, I felt this movie was very self-indulgent. I'm fine with realistic, non-scifi/fantasy stories being told using animation, but make it interesting, damn it. I'm almost done watching Satoshi Kon's Paranoia Agent and this is a great example of animation that tells a non-scifi/fantasy story that is interesting and takes better advantage of the medium.
Final Rating? DNS - Do Not See - there are far better and more satisfying love stories done in anime. I'd suggest you check out Love Hina if you're interested in good cliched storytelling that follows a romance. 5 Centimeters Per Second was sadly sleep-inducing.
FYI: Strangely (or maybe not so strangely), 5 Centimeters Per Second is not available on DVD in the US any more, but you may be able to score it used through Amazon--click the movie poster image above to get started.. I was able to find it on Netflix.
Orignal From: 5 CENTIMETERS PER SECOND (2007)
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