Suzume - Reviews

The future of anime is in safe hands.

Makoto Shinkai’s charming modern Alice in Wonderland.

...offers the fluid and detailed animation fans like myself have come to expect from the most beloved name working in anime today, and its seamless integration of CG and traditional animation for Sota’s chair form is a genuine triumph.

With Suzume, Shinkai Makoto reaffirms his auteurist bona fides. He continues to employ the same visual motifs and return to the same essential themes and story structures to create a filmmaking style that’s unmistakably his own.

Visually striking and emotionally poignant, Suzume manages to combine hilarity and heartache, in its heightened, therapeutic, if slightly unwieldy, narrative.

Like the best animated filmmakers, we see the magic in what he does. And we also see ourselves.

...where Shinkai remains peerless is in taking those big, magical, melodramatic swings and landing them with a gentle, compassionate touch.

A 'gorgeous, touching and reliably bonkers fantasy'.

An epic fantasy love story between a girl and a talking chair.

Makoto Shinkai’s natural disaster epic is earth-shatteringly good.

Det är sannerligen inget fel på regissörens fantasi eller blick för färggranna, magiska äventyr. Hans filmer är slående vackra...