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Suzume

Suzume

2022
Fantasy, Action
2h 2m
Suzume is a high school student living with her aunt in a small Kyushu town. She meets Sota, a young man visiting from Tokyo. Suzume learns that he is a "tojimeshi," tasked with closing mystical doors acting as portals to another world, to prevent calamity from befalling Japan.
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Suzume

2022
Fantasy, Action
2h 2m
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Rated 31 Jan 2023
85
73rd
Shinkai has created a disaster trilogy of sorts, and while Your Name towers above the other two, Suzume is a decent effort. There's a rich mythos and ethnography to its story, a commentary on the constant loss of tradition and people in the rural areas of Japan as they move to the cities. The romance is muted compared to that in Weathering With You; most of the attention is drawn instead to Suzume's coming of age and overcoming her past trauma. The Radwimps presence is also more subtle, sadly.
Rated 18 Apr 2023
83
86th
A very nice adventure movie that effortlessly switches between large action setpieces, intimate character moments and slice of life passages. Bonus points for the nice orchestral soundtrack.
Rated 17 Apr 2023
70
42nd
Can't really rank this relative to other anime, as the amount that I watch is still limited. As a movie, it's not without its faults - namely, a 17-year-old girl and a 25-year-old grad student training to be a teacher being in love and somehow everybody's cool with it! - but it's also not without its charm! The visuals and music are excellent, and mostly make up for plotline and screenplay. Makoto Shinkai may never step outside the "coming of age" subgenre, but he does make good stuff within it!
Rated 20 Apr 2023
8
75th
Shinkai's "Suzume" excels in character development, authentic emotions, and stunning visuals, particularly in its depiction of weather. However, the film's pacing falters in the second act, resulting in a dragging feeling and an extended runtime. Despite this, it remains an engaging and boundary-pushing animated film.
Rated 22 Apr 2023
80
68th
We need more films where we get to root for a very little chair.
Rated 13 Mar 2023
70
64th
The first half is a fun-filled adventure; I was hoping for a Your-Name-level output. However, in the latter half, it kept disappointing me with out-of-nowhere characters that do not add much to the movie, and inexplicable change of minds, among others. I really loved its theme so I felt a bit bad about how it turned out to be.
Rated 26 Apr 2023
100
98th
Beautiful, romantic, has adorable characters which are not completely plain / one-sided, in contrast to most superhero blockbusters.
Rated 26 Apr 2023
96
90th
Fantastic. I really appreciated this movie. It’s not some surface-level, written-in-the-stars love story. It has actual character with actual depth, and some very touching family moments as well. It is pretty funny at times, but it also seems very respectful of those who are still dealing with trauma, grief and the outcome of catastrophic disasters (in this instance, 3/11). Oh and the world-building, animation, music and directing are brilliant. It’s just a damn good, sad, beautiful story.
Rated 14 May 2023
72
59th
Yet another movie following the same themes as Kimi no na wa and Tenki no ko. This one's a lot better than the second one but still nowhere near the first. As someone who lived in Japan in 2011, I really appreciated the depiction of 3/11, the people's reaction to earthquakes, and the uneasy feeling when getting an earthquake alarm in your phone.
Rated 15 Aug 2023
80
79th
It's really lovely - the themes meaningful and the art often transcendent - but it is held down by the inflation of a childhood crush and a questionable MacGuffin during an otherwise powerful climax. If the character work matched the thematic and visual poignancy, this would be a masterpiece; unfortunately, it falls short.
Rated 19 Mar 2023
56
53rd
Your Name > Weathering With You > Suzume
Rated 14 Apr 2023
83
91st
It’s a awesome film and been waiting for it for 6 months when i watched your name with my brother, but it just didn’t feel as good as your name. The soundtrack was honestly perfect and a great story and visuals, but it could have done more and been better. I’m not disappointed but sad that it didn’t live up to the hype in my mind. Still watch it as it amazing, but go in with thinking that you haven’t seen the directors other films Damn i have so many emotions about the film but just cant express
Rated 15 Apr 2023
75
53rd
Despite its shortcomings, "Suzume" offers a unique blend of supernatural lore, youthful adventure, and poignant exploration of grief. It's a visually stunning film that, despite sometimes stumbling over its own ambitions, still manages to leave a lasting impression.
Rated 15 Apr 2023
67
64th
It's everything you'd expect visually, but the story is honestly kind of mid. The real issue is the two characters, who fall in love over the course of something like 3 days in a sexless romance. There's no sense of their relationship growing over time, it feels totally surface level. In isolation it's not that bad, but comparing this film to Your Name is simply unavoidable, and the love story at the core of this disaster film is totally mid. You just don't care enough about the characters.
Rated 16 Apr 2023
7
63rd
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Rated 16 Apr 2023
85
83rd
The plot is absolutely moronic, but animation is beautiful, soundtrack stellar, and the power to elicit emotion is second to none.
Rated 26 Apr 2023
4
51st
Doesn’t quite pull off everything thing it’s going for. It’s hard to balance these gigantic set pieces and these tender intimate moments. Sits in a middle ground where you want more of one or the other. I think your name does it better.
Rated 28 Apr 2023
81
85th
Sorry, but I love these Makoto Shinkai films about teenagers that are so madly in love that they would rather destroy the entire earth than be apart.
Rated 01 May 2023
80
65th
audiovisual 88 overall feeling 72 avg 80
Rated 07 May 2023
5
32nd
Glorious animation, a strong score, an adorable cat and a very amusing anthropomorphic chair. Unfortunately, Suzume suffers due to a derivative story and a set of not particularly interesting human characters, and dragging on for a full two hours doesn’t help. It has its moments, especially in the opening act, and the visuals are often eye-popping, but Shinkai’s earlier Your Name is a richer and more moving experience.
Rated 01 Jun 2023
63
77th
It's been a while since I last watched anime - especially in a theater. This was a good reminder that I should go more often. It looks and sounds great and really benefits from a big screen. It has interesting characters, even the smaller ones that Suzume meets along the way. It is a bit long and e.g. the early rushing from door to door felt repetitive, and also the road trip got surprisingly much screen time, but I still liked it a lot and consider it as one of the better non-Ghibli anime.
Rated 06 Jun 2023
75
73rd
As usual, beautiful animation but a bit too cheezy at times.
Rated 04 Jul 2023
75
53rd
Only my 4th Shinkai film and my least favourite. Seems to be diminishing returns in what he's doing currently. It hooks you immediately with a fantastical and imaginative premise. It becomes a little predictable and less inspired, and he mines familiar territory, and does it in a lesser fashion. But hell, the animation is still beautiful, the music impactful, and there's still some emotional oomph by the end of it. It's easy to ignore the sometimes wonky dialogue.
Rated 06 Jul 2023
66
47th
A bit better than OK, but... To me this one seemed a movie in two halves. Up to midway OK'ish but the amination tho above average lacked the 'gee whiz' impact of prev Shinkai productions and the plot was so-so generic. However the last half was way better (outside the quelling arc) ... and I'm always a sucker for any respectful tie-in to the sad events of 11-03 (or in US-speak 03-11). IMO well below Your Name but miles above Weathering With You.
Rated 22 Jul 2023
70
53rd
Souta Munakata: "The most important work should not be seen."
Rated 10 Aug 2023
56
52nd
Lovely visuals. Overly sweet story in some ways. The last scene was good in terms of trauma resolution
Rated 02 Sep 2023
71
62nd
When Suzume is good, it's brilliant. The weight of connections and memories of people in the shadow of disaster, the thin layer of individual happiness and societal progress on top of unprocessed loss. It's about Fukushima in the way that Gojira is about Hiroshima - a metaphor so obvious it takes on a life of its own and works its way into every context. But a film that invests this much in every single minor character should be able to have a love interest that's not literally a piece of wood.
Rated 24 Sep 2023
60
89th
A girl and a chair has an adventure doing it chair-y-style. Typical Japanese fantasy stuff, overly complicating the story in a child-like way to tell a sad story. This about natural disasters, and they take the long road trying to get to their destination. Got to admit, it was fun.
Rated 26 Dec 2023
70
72nd
You just gotta sit back and admire the amount genres displayed here: from giant monster to family melodrama, from teen romance to coming of age, from portal fantasy to adventure, from disaster to road movie. It's just all here.
Rated 07 Jan 2024
84
91st
Who knew that the only thing Shinkai movies needed, were a little excitement?
Rated 07 Jan 2024
58
53rd
The story is told far too clumsily, coincidences just happen for convenience, characters take everything for granted far too quickly and the characters are all uninteresting. Makoto Shinkai's weakest film so far, everything feels forced and still the same, visuals are nice to look at, but again exactly the same as the last two of his, only this one is much less pompous or bombastic. Unfortunately I'm really a little disappointed... and that even though I expected it!
Rated 21 Jan 2024
80
79th
The film was overall excellent, but if anything drags it down it's that the male lead is utterly obnoxious and the female lead has an almost creepy obsession with him. He never treats her with any respect and yet she seems willing to let the whole world burn for his sake. Whereas the best character by far, the cat Daijin, gets far too little screen time and I don't think we ever get a chance to fully understand him.
Rated 26 Feb 2024
70
53rd
Lmaocattalks-crazypowers-chair:P+lovedthestartthenhardlycared+ifeellikenothingwasreallysetupandthepacingwasweirdlolsoipaidattentionlesssoconfused
Rated 18 Mar 2024
67
67th
There were some magical and whimsical moments in this that I really liked but I just couldn't get invested in the main plot.

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