Weathering with You

Name: Weathering with You
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Animation, Family
Released: January 15, 2020
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Alison Brie, Ashley Boettcher, Brandon Engman, Chieko Baisho, Dino Andrade

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GKIDS | Release Date: January 15, 2020 | PG-13

Starring: Alison Brie, Ashley Boettcher, Brandon Engman, Chieko Baisho, Dino Andrade, Kana Hanazawa, Kana Ichinose, Kentaro Araki, Kotaro Daigo, Lexie Foley, Mone Kamishiraishi, Nana Mori, Riz Ahmed, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Sei Hiraizumi, Shun Oguri, Tsubasa Honda, Yuki Kaji

Summary: The summer of his high school freshman year, Hokoda runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysteriousThe summer of his high school freshman year, Hokoda runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hokoda meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky. [GKIDS]… Expand

Director: Makoto Shinkai

Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Animation, Family

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 112 min

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Carlos Aguilar

Nov 26, 2019

As irresistibly romantic as it is awe-inspiringly gorgeous, Weathering With You on the whole satisfies the craving for more of what “Your Name” ignited in viewers, yet with slightly less impact. Read full review

Polygon Tasha Robinson

Jan 21, 2020

This is the kind of film where viewers can let themselves flow with the film’s emotion, or entirely ignore the action and just get lost in the beauty of the imagination. Either way, it’s a luscious trip to take. Read full review

Hoai-Tran Bui

Jan 17, 2020

Weathering With You is far and away one of the loveliest and most beautiful animated films in years. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Sep 14, 2019

For a movie about the sky, “Weathering with You” is ironically one of Shinkai’s most grounded films — immediately more warm and engaging than “Your Name,” if not at all capable of delivering the same emotional payoff. Read full review

Sara Stewart

Jan 15, 2020

Though most foreign films are best seen subtitled, the nonstop overexcitement of these anime performances can be exhausting. I’d have welcomed the dulcet tones of Pace, who voices Mr. Suga. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Jan 16, 2020

There’s a touch of “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” to Weathering With You that makes the direction it ultimately veers off into both surprisingly abrupt and darkly pragmatic. It’s also, in its own way, optimistic. Maybe, the film suggests, before anyone can think about saving the world, they have to figure out how to live in it. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jan 21, 2020

It’s fanciful enough, but Weathering with You is too scattered with dashes of dullness making for many dead spots. It’s not on a par with virtually anything the anime master Hiyao Miyazaki made, and falls well short of the heart of “Your name.” Read full review

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Kelvinfs

Jan 29, 2020

Esse filme e lindo e o final entao meu deus que anime.amei tudo do anime estou apaixonado

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Godzifan2

Sep 20, 2020

Que puedo decir de la pelicula, es una pelicula preciosa, hermosamente animada, narrativamente bella, con un soundtrack increible, la pelicula no solo tiene un final satisfactorio sino que además de riendas de lo que puede venir en el futuro y los mensajes filosoficos que nos deja, algunosQue puedo decir de la pelicula, es una pelicula preciosa, hermosamente animada, narrativamente bella, con un soundtrack increible, la pelicula no solo tiene un final satisfactorio sino que además de riendas de lo que puede venir en el futuro y los mensajes filosoficos que nos deja, algunos emotivos y otros no tanto pero en general un pelicula HERMOSA!!!!, que no supera a su predecesora your name, sino que hace algo mucho mejor!!!!… Expand

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s666a

Sep 1, 2020

You can just float yourself with the story, the drama, the romance, get wet in rain. Feel the emotions and feel the weather with them!

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Dostoyevsky3

Jan 26, 2021

Weathering With You withers away any possible flaws with its wonderful message that wields powerful emotional weight.

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zNeverSleeping

Jul 24, 2020

É impossível não comparar essa obra com Your Name, e talvez isso até atrapalhe sua experiência. No meu caso, consegui pôr isso de lado enquanto assistia ao filme, mas vamos começas com algumas semelhanças que notei.

Primeiro, é obvio, se trata da identidade visual. A direção de arte,É impossível não comparar essa obra com Your Name, e talvez isso até atrapalhe sua experiência. No meu caso, consegui pôr isso de lado enquanto assistia ao filme, mas vamos começas com algumas semelhanças que notei.

Primeiro, é obvio, se trata da identidade visual. A direção de arte, fotografia, ost, tudo semelhante, o que é excelente. Sinto que "Your Name" teve uma visão mais autoral, que o faz parecer uma pintura diversas vezes, mas aqui o trabalha também é muito bem feito. gosto muito quando eles simulam o efeito 3D com os movimentos 360. Algumas fotografia em plano aberto são magnificas e nos deixam sem saber o que pensar. A OST casa muito bem com os mesmos e casa uma atmosfera unica.

Gostei muito das referencias diretas ao "Your Name". É um super presente aos fans da obra. O final foi agradável e, mesmo não ligando muito para a verosimilhança graças a suspensão da descrença aqui gerada, achei o final bem pé no chão, mesmo que não tenhamos muitas informações sobre os três anos do protagonista na sua cidade de origem.

Os personagens são excelentes, assim como seus relacionamentos interpessoais. Amei a dinâmica inicial, onde o diretor escolhe uma narrativa mais introspectiva, fazendo com que use sua cabeça para que entenda o que está acontecendo. Isso nos ajuda até mesmo a empatizar com os personagens. Os momentos de alivio cômico são mais "tímidos" que no "Your Name" - eu aprovo isso.

Por fim, "Weathering With You" traz uma experiencia solida, satisfatória e muito agradável para quem é amante do gênero e do estilo criado pelo Makoto Shinkai.… Expand

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glomman

Jun 12, 2022

A nice little romantic movie, which is incredibly stereotypical and cheesy at times. Unlike movies like Paprika or the work of Studio Ghibli, I have to say that this movie isn't particularly memorable, it's just a generic story of a young guy fleeing his childhood home to fall in love with aA nice little romantic movie, which is incredibly stereotypical and cheesy at times. Unlike movies like Paprika or the work of Studio Ghibli, I have to say that this movie isn't particularly memorable, it's just a generic story of a young guy fleeing his childhood home to fall in love with a mysterious girl who seemingly can control the weather. Nice, if you want to really immerse yourself in this cliché-ridden anime world, not so nice, if you actually want to take anything useful away from it.… Expand

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hnestlyonthesly

Mar 2, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Weathering With You makes about as much sense grammatically as its plot. The movie hinges on an actually cool metaphor for the tragic relationship between the youth and climate change, which works with the storyline but the follow through is stupid to harmful. The film is full of pseudo-intellectual nods to global warming and the "Anthropocene" era, but in order to exculpate the decision of the main character, it almost verges on climate denial, offering all sorts of cooky, New Age theories about coastal cities returning to the sea, being reclaimed by nature. It is devoid of commentary on the connection between consumer capitalism and climate change, despite its visual attention to verisimilitude. For all the accurately drawn Big Macs and ChocoPies, the movie has no **** to give about its apparent central metaphor. It is heavy with metatheatric jokes about art and anime at the beginning (for instance, one of the characters describes the fate of "sunshine girls" to be that they are eventually "spirited away" get it hahaha ok), but as the movie proceeds its weighed down with the stupid choices and incuriosity of its protagonist. It is Japan's entry for Best Picture for 2019, by the same director (Makoto Shinkai) as last year's disappointing Your Name, the (spoilers) overwrought gender-bending time travel film that hinges on the idea that two horny teenagers who are inhabiting each other's bodies would never bother to check the calendar or look for their own address in the age of cell phones and the Internet. Your Name was able to make Wife weep at its climax, so she had marked down this film as a must-see several weeks ago. I had major misgivings because of the enthusiasm gap I experienced from last time. I find Shinkai's films feel emotionally stunted. Everyone feels all of their emotions cranked up to 11. They lean heavily on a fantastical element that feels manufactured more for its visuals than anything that flows from necessity of plot and never let common sense get in the way of a cool scene. My least favorite things about this movie is the loose ends that are so lazily not tied up: the way that the dead mother of Suga's child, who died "in an accident" years earlier, is obviously another "sunshine girl" sacrifice that Suga could not help either, because why else would Suga be the one to save Hodaka on the ferry during the freak weather occurrence in the first scene? Wife says that the inability to square the circle on Suga's backstory is in line with his central character trait, the way that he's constantly undermining himself. Because why else would he stare at a wall of water gathering above his study and think, I should open the window to let all this water completely wreck my office. Or as friend put it, "If I let the water in through this window it will cause literally thousands of dollars of damage to clean up. F* it." Probably the most irritating thing about Weathering With You is how manufactured Hina's crisis feels. There are no external forces of evil, a hallmark of some of the **** anime in my estimation. Rather, Shinkai has developed this quirky character, given her powers beyond her wildest imagination, then built in that character's tragic end for the greatest emotional impact, and then tried to make everyone feel bad that her ability to change the weather should come with stakes and consequences. Consequences that Shinkai himself has mandated. No one but Shinkai has demanded that Hina should have to suffer for her relatively small-minded but mostly innocent acts of weather control. Hina at no point questions Why me? or How can I explain this phenomenon (without taking on faith the ravings of a old man whose own grandson doesn't trust when interviewed)? Because that is not the point of Hina. Weathering With You advances the idea that you can only be female in a story if you are a busty sex object that good-naturedly laughs off the pervy advances of a 15 year old coworker or a flat-chested human sacrifice "not cut out" for underage sex work.

Hina spends most of her time in various states of distress, whether its covered in a horde of water fish or inexplicably falling through the sky and breaking only her necklace or losing her ring that her friend of one month gives her on the advice of her purposefully androgynous little brother. Hina's secret about her age is the dumbest possible plot twist for that character. Her blank expression of non-threatening helpfulness is played and replayed (every scene in which she and Hodaka interact is flashbacked) for maximal emotional impact at the climax. Natsumi, Suga's suspected mistress, by contrast is pure fan service in low-cut tops, proffering alcohol to minors at key moments of celebration. She is available and boy crazy and not at all creeped out by Hodaka's attention. About a page more of review back at the site, but this gives you a taste.… Expand

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