The movie
is about an office worker named Daikichi, who after his grandfathers funeral
suddenly agrees to take care of his 6 year old aunt(his grandfathers daughter).
I for one
have definitely heard similar plotlines before, and sometimes I’ve liked it too. I
didn’t just like this movie though. I loved
it!
The
approach is somewhat realistic, in a way that makes it funny without too much
slapstick humor, and still real without being boring or tragic.
It’s definitely also one of those movies which make me a fan of Kenichi
Matsuyama(Daikichi)>.< Because he did simply awesome, and Mana Ashida(the
little girl) did a great job too, and both of their characters grow throughout the course of the movie.
The clichés
are still present though, and even though it’s not completely predictable you
do sometimes get the feeling you’ve seen some things before. All the little details really make up for it though, and it didn’t really bother me that much.
The thing that did bother me though was a few crying scenes, because they were kind
of overdone, but I loved so many other moments along the way that I can’t bring
myself to dislike the movie just because of that.
It is the only thing which makes me give it a 5 instead of a 6 though, because I just really,
really love this movie! I even feel like I want to watch it again, and that
doesn’t happen too often.
The long
trailer catch the mood better, but it has some spoilers so here is the short
one:
…I’ll
probably pester all my friends now until they’ve watched it tooXD (Miss My, I’m
coming for you!) Watch it! Definitely watch it!
When reading this, remember these things:
Point 1: I have only read the first few chapters of the Gantz manga, and it's a long time ago. (I know it's popular, but I guess the close-ups of a naked woman, which then was attempted raped, gave a certain impression I didn't like.) I guess that means this is like watching a movie without reading the book, which should automatically give me a better impression of the movie.
Point 2: The only subtitles I had was Japanese, so I may not have gotten all neuances in their lines. I still understood what was going on though, and in action movies the most important stuff is most often not in what is said, but I still may have missed lines or details.
Point 3: The movie has a lot of famous people, among them Kenichi Matsuyama..
So my view of the movie may not be completely objective, and I may sound like an ignorant blabbering moron :D
But anyway, here's my opinion of it:
Rating: 5/6
The plot is about two guys who get killed by a train when trying to rescue a man from the tracks. They then suddenly find themselves in a room with some other people and a wierd black sphere that sends them all out on missions to kill aliens.
The plot is quite simple actually, but of course they fill in some emotional stuff and surrounding events to make the whole thing interesting.
I have serious issues with finding a trailer that only is for this movie, because it's really a two-part thing and the trailers I can without digging through all of them are for both. And here it is:
So the movie tell us about life and death, and the relationships and alien-fighting that comes along.
You don't see the aliens in the trailer, which is good, because I think the best thing with them was how unexpected and creative they were. They aren't really too easy to win over either, and stuff doesn't look like it's made of carboard, which is all good.
You also have distruction on a large scale, for those who like explosions and shit.
As for the characters, the main ones are without doubt Kurono(Kazunari Ninomiya) and Kato(Kenichi Matsuyama), and as the movie goes their friendship becomes so clear it makes me suspect there are some fanfictions somewhere about this stuff.
There's also the asshole Nishi(Kanata Hongo) and the girl that shows up nude(Natsuna Watanabe), and it's with and about these four we see most.
As for acting, I think Matsuyama does the part quite well(I guess he's good at playing sad and brave). As for Ninomiya, he did good, but I think I just like him better in nervous teenager parts than this stuff.
Kanata Hongo is playing a mischevious bastard, so I guess he's supposed to be kind of annoying, but Yuriko Yoshitaka didn't really leave an impression. Maybe she's more in the background and without strong overdone personal traits.. I'm not too sure.
And I guess the actors kind of made this movie a 5 instead of a 6 in my opinion, because the rest is really good, but I don't know... It may be a point for the characters to be "normal people", but I would have liked them to be a bit more action-ish:P It seems like they really decided to have famous actors in this one no matter whatXD
But I can't really come up with some other things I disliked about the movie, so I guess I really liked it then:D And I don't really have much more to say, because basically it's just like it seems in the trailer!
So if it looks like a movie you'd like, you'll probably like it as well:)
