Weathering With You Cinema Screening Review

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AUKN Staff
You can all let out a collective breath because Weathering With You is a great film, and with it opening in the UK at the start of 2020, let’s hope it’s a sign of a spectacular year of anime films to come.

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I would say I agree with most of what you said there.
Just an addendum, the songs were translated in the showing I saw. I actually found that more distracting though.
 
There's directorial trademarks and then there's self-parody and I think Shinkai finds himself in the latter camp too often during the course of this film. Your Name wasn't a perfect film, but it managed to make it's central message clear despite having a more complicated plot than Weathering With You, which - if it even has a message - is confused and muddled. It's fine, but Shinkai is treading water and barely resisting the current.
 
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