Genres: adventure, comedy, drama, science fiction, thriller Themes: computers, family, social-networking, technology, virtual reality Objectionable content: Mild Plot Summary: When timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso is asked by older student and secret crush Natsuki to come with her to her family’s Nagano home for a summer job, he agrees without hesitation. Natsuki’s family, the Jinnouchi clan, dates back to the Muromachi era, and they’ve all come together to celebrate the 90th birthday of the spunky matriarch of the family, Sakae. That’s when Kenji discovers his “summer job” is to pretend to be Natsuki’s fiancé and dance with her at the birthday celebration. As Kenji attempts to keep up with Natsuki’s act around her family, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone which, being a math genius, he can’t resist solving. As it turns out, the solution to the mysterious equation causes a hijacking of the social networking site through which most of the world’s social and business traffic flows. Running time: 114 minutes Vintage: 2009-07-29
I thought I’d post this here to let everyone know it seems like some perhaps a lot of people are not getting a slipcover or the the art cards that are supposed to be with the first pressings. Pretty sure the slipcover is not exclusive to the first pressing so if you did not get them I’d contact Funimation.
Not sure how this happened. My guess is they used two different replicators and one of them did not put the slipcover or artcards in.
I got mine and while the art cards are not that great the slipcover is something I’d be complaining about not getting.
Just to let you know the Oklahoma City Museum of Art will be showing Summer Wars from Thursday, March 17 through Sunday, March 20. Times are 7:30 PM on Thursday, 5:30 PM on Friday and Saturday (with an 8:00 Pm showing of Evangelion 2.0 following) and a 2:30 PM matinee on Sunday. Cost is $8 general admission.
Funimation really could have handled this thing a lot better. There has been people that have had it pre-ordered since it was available to pre-order that did not get the art cards. It looks like those people are out of luck. It sounds like they sent most of the first print stock to Retail chains.
I saw Summer Wars on the big screen at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art and was blown away by the story and the animation quality. For some strange reason, they showed the movie in subtitled mode (it definitely was the Blu-ray copy) so since I have a Blu-ray player now I rented it from Netflix as soon as I could. My wife and I watched it yesterday-she loved it and I can now say the dub is outstanding, too!
