This charming, visually fertile film captures the conflicted emotions of first love and embarrassment of being a teen with real sensitivity.
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09/19/08
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 15
Fresh: 13
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Consensus: An imaginative and thoughtfully engaging anime film with a highly effective visual design. This coming-of-age comedy drama has mad inventiveness to spare.
Rated: 12A
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release: 19-09-2008
Reviews for The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
1 - 15 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Only seventeen Lord of the Rings-esque endings spoil the fun, but this sweet take on teen-angst romance quietly impresses.
09/19/08
Beautifully-drawn Japanimation about a time-hopping schoolgirl, by turns wondrous and a little too hyper.
09/19/08
Top Critic The characters are entirely credible and likable, the simply drawn figures highly effective against the lush background artwork. Time travel has rarely seemed so joyous.
09/19/08
Top Critic
It’s a polished piece of whimsy. Creepy too in the way it promotes a homogenised picture of the future.
09/19/08
Top Critic It's not quite up there with the best of Miyazaki's coming-of-age dramas featuring the likes of Kiki and Chihiro/Sen, but Hosada has proved himself after his Ghibli debacle. Great stuff.
09/19/08
Top Critic Superior animé caper comedy with wit, energy and mad invention to spare.
09/19/08
Top Critic It has few fireworks, but still sticks in the mind, and is a definite upgrade from Digimon: The Movie for director Mamoru Hosoda.
09/19/08
Top Critic This is one of the most thoughtfully engaging anime features to reach these shores, and a perfect place to start for anyone, of any age, who's been resistant to anime (and manga) as a popular Japanese import.
08/29/08
While the animation is only so-so, Mamoru is a good storyteller with a firm grasp on both the story and characters.
08/29/08
What makes The Girl Who Leapt Through Time such an unexpected treat is the contemplative pace and painterly visuals.
08/22/08
Can you alter history and make things better if you have the ability to go back and forth through time?
06/11/08
Young-adult in conception and execution, this award-winning animated romance with a Thanatos twist is an underdeveloped sci-fi Groundhog Day.
06/11/08
It's basically the equivalent of a sensitively wrought read from the Young Adult shelf, and there's naught wrong with that.
06/11/08
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