Very, very funny, and then very, very horrifying. Love the Bowie track, too.

A brutal bit of satire, though the subject deserves it.

A black as soot satire on the government given advice for surviving nuclear fallout. Sad though not as devastating as people claim - the characters being played for humour means that they don't feel very realistic and can get on your nerves a bit making it difficult to emotionally invest in the film and the main animation style, mixing stop-motion and hand drawn animation, doesn't always work and at times just kicks you straight out of the film. Bleak? Yes. But rarely much more.

Cold war era cartoon about a retired old couple living in rural England, and how they deal with the threat of the country being nuked. Kinda sad watching the old codgers in complete denial, just wasting away and dying waiting for help to come, but you can't imagine real people would be so naive as to just assume everything would go back to normal. Nice to see animation not drawn by a computer, and the music by David Bowie and Roger Waters is excellent.

Perfect mixture of happiness and sadness. It reminds me of "La vita è bella" (R. Benigni), and somehow is curious the way these characters think about all those events happening, the way they change things just by comments. At first you will find them so natural, human, tender, than every little thing that goes wrong will really break you. One of the most interesting adult animated movies I've seen in a long time, and even better than some of the most common ones people use to talk about.

Good Movie

Striking and quite horrifying. The couple is so naive and that moved me very much. Brr

I'd forgotten about this, a tale about a staunch british couple stoically trtying to cope with a nuclear attack. Great animation, though unsurprisingly quite depressing

The first time I saw that movie I was just a little child and I mistook for another kid's comic... well, it was really quite disturbing, but on the other hand it was really good.

Don't be fooled by the children's story-like animation: this is very dark and gloomy. Although, the couple's cluelessness does make for some brilliant moments of black humor.

Deadly effective. It catches you right from the beggining with it's fantastic theme song, and sends you breathless to feel the days before the bomb... And once the bomb strikes, it grabs you in the balls with it's gripping visuals and striking soundtrack (I wasn't surprised when I discovered Roger Waters, Genesis, David Bowie and more were in this), dumping you in a corner to feel the horrors of the fallout. Little I have ever seen as powerful as this.

NOT the cartoon that you might expect. A highly mannered and decent but naive British couple attempt to deal with a nuclear attack. Quietly moving and tragic

The couple's descent into sickness and implied death is more effective than all the mushroom clouds, bombed-out buildings, and piles of bodies that the genre has given us before and since.

"They didn't blow up the sun, did they?" - "Oh no dear, science is still in its infancy". Threads ('84) with its dramatized "what if" about people in and after a nukefest, was as informative as it was (very) horrific. When the Wind Blows rather credits the viewer with understanding the reprecautions already - hence the Bloggs' virtual cluelessness is used to great ironic, comical and then tragic effect. By some point it is overdone a bit, but generally a film both harrowing and hilarious.

With all the praise this gets as being bleak and moving, I have to say I was rather disappointed. There are some rather pointed and interesting criticisms of the superficial soothing advice governments give in crises and the pitch black humour has some excellent moments. I can't say I found the characters very endearing or believable, though, which took away any emotional impact from the film.

Bogen er skønnere...

My middle school teacher thought this would be appropriate for her 7th grade class. Besides being the first blow to my innocence it was also my first experience with an "adult" animated feature. A sad, sad movie with a depressing message watch it with someone who's cheeriness gets on your nerves.

Great.