Audience reviews
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dadaroma
Synopsis is very misleading because Mirai is not the one coping with the arrival of his little sister (in fact he's way more pleased than real life brothers would be)... his parents are the ones trying to cope with having two kids, while not giving enough attention to a TODDLER and the husband not knowing jack shit about housework. Overall a nice movie but the entirety of the plot revolving about Mirai learning about love and family or whatever while presenting us a setting where the parents are the stressed out ones with much more to learn... well.
To be honest the start left such a bad taste in my mouth I thought I wouldn't enjoy the rest but it was very cute.
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I'm just now watching "Mirai", the anime movie nominated for the Best Animated Film Oscar as an apology for snubbing "Your Name" the year before. This... This is "We have 'Your Name' at home" energy. Which is a bad sign because I thought "Your Name" was just, y'know, fine.
This is 90 minutes of kids screaming because they're being in turns unreasonable and emotionally abused. The kids being unreasonable part I can understand, because they are especially little and little kids can get quite loud. But the main kid just screams So Much, and his parents largely ignore his feelings. Which is where this goes into shades of emotional abuse, what with the mom frequently threatening him with over-the-top punishments in response to temporary inconveniences. That's just a recipe for inter-generation…
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(TLDR at the bottom, thanks for reading.)
A short and sweet review for a short and sweet kids film.
If you took everything that Mamoru Hosoda has ever made and blended it all and condensed it into a 98-minute film you'd get Mirai. Depending on who you ask this can be good or this can be bad. You could say that Mirai is just reusing Hosuda's old idea's and you could say Mirai is a refinement of everything Hosuda has been building up to. Both of which can be true (depending on your perspective).
Mirai doesn't really follow a specific story, there isn't a set goal or task to complete, but instead, it is a story about maturing. While most coming of age anime focus on older teens maturing into adults Mirai focuses on a 4 years-old boy, Kun, learning to be less of a brat. He has gone from bei…
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Mirai no Mirai is the latest output from director Mamoru Hosoda. Who has a pretty decent to good track record as far as I’m aware. Girl Who Leapt through time I enjoyed, Summer Wars was decent, Wolf Children I liked a lot, & Boy & The Beast I thoroughly enjoyed. So I have fairly high expectations for this movie. Lets a go
Story: 2/10
The story of Mirai no Mirai is really cool in concept. A young boy gets brought to the future to get taught life lessons from his older sister the aptly named ‘Mirai” along with various other people in his life. Really interesting concept on paper. Too bad the execution blew. The problem with the story is the repetitive structure of the movie. Kun learns something, goes back to being a brat, learns something new, goes back to being a brat, rinse repeat until…
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This is not a family movie, there is no warmth or heart in this. The ending felt brittle. The story focused more on his weak family bond rather than on his relationship with his sister, which felt like false advertising.
I really liked the art, the backgrounds were so beautiful; although the CGI made it look like a sims game sometimes. I watched the dubbed version and the 4 year old sounded oddly mature for his age. I'm sure its just the post-pubescent voice.
The situations that Kun were placed in were actually very well written for a terrible family. His mother lashed out constantly without repercussions and his father was weak (he had to get a manly lesson from his other dad). His entire family, even the sister, placed the blame of Kun's freak outs on himself even though he was in a ve…
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I want to start by saying that the top review by Karhu is incredibly unfair as I can only assume he has NO first-hand experience raising small children--especially not a newborn and toddler simultaneously.
Throughout the story Kun is very evidently NOT being neglected, he's only being a very spoiled and needy child out of jealousy of not being the center of attention, and whenever his parents have to stop paying attention to him for extremely valid reasons, such as WORK (the dad is not scrolling memes, he's working), cooking, taking care of the infant's needs, or just being beat tired and attempting to get a modicum of rest, kun throws a tantrum like many a spoiled toddler will do.
He throws tantrums over EVERYTHING, things as inconsequential as not being able to wear the color pants he w…
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It’s 2am and I have a busy day that starts early tomorrow, so - what better time than to type out a couple lines worth of notes and impulsively decide to fill it out to full review length? You’re looking at a priority mastermind.
The art is amazing, as standard for Chizu. Anyone who grew up, like me, watching Hosoda’s other works (the first Digimon Movie, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, etc) will recognise the style in a heartbeat, and appreciate the airiness and consistently clean execution with a lot of character.
Voice actors could have used some .. tweaking, or changing altogether. Having a child of just 2-4 as the main character would call for an extremely young-sounding voice and this one at times sounded way too grown up or cohesive. Mature? I would have loved more…
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I was looking forward to the release of this film since I seriously love the director other works (especially Wolf Children). So it goes without saying that when I saw this film get an oscar nomination I was ready for it to be the second coming of Christ.
Well, it was far from that
I found the Story quite boring and unintersting. It felt that something that was mostly directed for small children. I think it would be more fitting for this to be a short collection of episodes, since the sections of the movie felt like that. 4/10
Now for the art, what could I possibly except? As usual the visuals are beutiful, even though there was some annoying cgi at some points. But it doesn't really ruin the experience since it's trippy visuals are enough for anyone to forgive the cgi. 9/10
As for the…
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Not gonna lie, I want to like this movie but it did disappoint me in some ways. Let me explain:
Firstly, the art style is very reminiscent of Wolf Children and I liked it a lot. The composition of the music was top-notch as well. But this movie lacks the character development and plot that makes the movie fall short on meeting my expectations.
Let's talk about the character development, The main guy, Kun was a spoiled kid who had an attention child complex and demands a lot of attention. This is a good driving point but the way he handles the situation is honestly very annoying. Throwing tantrums over everything and anything is getting really sick. But what's disappointing is that even though he did see his family's past he did not change a little bit. I can't blame him. he's a kid but s…
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Mirai no Mirai, a title that catches the ear, but apparently, the show is not as catchy as it sounds.
It's hard to believe but afar from the poorly done soundtrack and story, what ruined everything is the character's behavior--or how they were made or portrayed.
Kun-chan, a four-year-old older brother who doesn't know how to be a good brother, has a totally crappy attitude. Well, I thought that was fine as the story moved forward, but I guess everything just didn't fit at all--even until it ended.
A kid having a bad attitude is normal, but Kun-chan's attitude doesn't just go at all. His attitude, the way he thinks, the way he talks, and even his voice doesn't fit a four-year-old at all. He sounded so old, and his actions are not young-like either.
Not that everything was wrong, but it…
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Mirai is truly precious and downright heart-melting, while rarely coming off as treacly or overly-saccharine thanks to the clear place of experience and insight showcased in the portrayal of family and siblings that Hosoda possesses. His understanding of the essence of family grows more profound with every film. The man has always been fascinated with the theme of family and how our bonds to our lineage form us into the people we are. Mirai is perhaps the most resonant implementation of this theme the visionary director has yet conceived. Truly a beautiful, heartwarming and downright infectious and endlessly charming experience. The film doesn't follow a traditional plot structure and is possibly the director's most "arthouse" work yet, and this may not work for viewers less inclined to be…
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Little Kun is excited that he will be having a new baby sister soon but when he discovers his parents doting on the baby he becomes jealous. One day while playing in the garden, something magical happens. Kun discovers their family dog Yukko taking human form and his sister Mirai travelling back from the future. Ever since then, Kun finds himself taking trips back to the past and meeting his older family members. With every trip little Kun grows up just that little bit more.
Mamoru Hisoda's movies had always had great art and this time we seem to see more use of 3D. Unfortunately the voice acting feels really out-of-place, especially with young Kun's voice sounding like an older woman even though it's common for females to play the voice of young males. I find this ruined the movie quite…
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Mirai no Mirai -- literally Mirai of the future in English -- is a children's movie about Kun, a 4 years-old boy who gets a little sister named Mirai and then becomes incredibly jealous because apparently his mother + father doesn't have any time for him anymore.
Kun spends his days yelling, crying, begging for attention, teasing his little sister and being annoying in every imaginable way until several different time travels occur and Kun gets to meet alternative timeline versions of his family members, including the older version of his little sister... after which he still does this exact same thing, but we get to see why. The worst part is that it all makes sense.
It's hard to decide which part of this movie sucks the hardest, but I did anyway; Old saying goes "your life doesn't suck…
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It's pretty clear everyone knows this movie was made by the same director who made The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, so this show has some pretty big expectations. While both of these movies are a sweet slice of life, coming of age, I wouldn't put them together. This movie was good. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was an instant hit.
This movie wasn't quite how I expected it to be when I first heard and read of it. It was a strong start but grew tiresome in the middle, and then it was over. With a collage of stories that inform us of who the main family is, I realized after finishing the movie that I couldn't remember everything clearly. The movie isn't too long, in fact, it's about the average length of a movie, but it felt long. I didn't finish this movie feeling like I learned something…
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Mamoru Hosoda is an absurdly talented filmmaker. He's able to take the masses on an emotional roller coaster through his visual prowess and maximum enhancement of his characters' emotions while making it look as easy as flipping a switch. If there is someone worthy of being called 'the next Miyazaki' then look no further.
With that being said, I'm not really a fan of his films. That's not to say I dislike any of them per say, I just don't think they resonate with me on a personal level as they do with many people. Also I find some of their thematic content, drama and strange directions his stories tend to take, to be offputting and weird sometimes.
My favorite film of his is One Piece movie 6 of all things (and I don't even think that's the best One Piece movie)...
That is, until I watch…
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In the planning stage of Mirai no Mirai, significant consideration was put into the designing of the house in which the majority of the movie is set. In fact, director Mamoru Hosoda employed a real architect, Makoto Tanijiri, to design the Oota house. The house is a series of four levels, not quite stories as it were, connected by a series of steps on one side of the house. It's a peculiar layout, as noted in a throwaway comment made by the grandmother at the beginning, designed in-universe by the architect father. A sloped tracking shot near the beginning of the movie, similar to Wolf Children's famed lateral tracking shot, moves between each level to show how they are attached. The first level is a den, mainly inhabited by the four-year-old son, Kun, and his train sets and toys. The next…
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Spoilers: Read at your own risk.
The movie I was expecting to see was something that combined the best parts of "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" with the best parts of "Wolf Children", two of my favorite films from Mamoru Hosoda. I wanted to see a heartwarming journey of recognizing the importance of family through time travel shenanigans. I was a little disappointed when this was only partially realized.
Story: 6
The story had a lot of promise for an extremely heartwarming story of young Kun coming to appreciate his younger sister, Mirai, and his family, even though he initially hates Mirai for taking his family's attention from him. I fully expected the story to be focused on Kun being thrusted into a fantastical world with the future version of Mirai. I imagined that through this j…
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This movie is very experimental in a lot of ways, and I appreciate that. Is it a masterpiece? No. Is it the best work by Hosoda? No. But it is a very cute movie, surprisingly deep, with phenomenal artwork and cinematography.
Music: 10/10
The soundtrack is rreminiscient of Ookami Kodomo Ame to Yuki, and each song is gorgeous.
Plot: 8/10
I think the title and trailers were misleading, because they focused on Kun's younger sister, Mirai, visiting him from the future. This does happen, but it's a small part of the plot. The true title should be "Annoying Child Repeatedly Stumbles into his Courtyard and is Greeted by Fantastical Events that Help Him Become a Better, More Responsible Child." It's a bit long, but it's more accurate.
We follow a four-year-old boy called Kun-chan, and he likes…
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Mamoru Hosoda giving us a visually accurate depiction of both sibling bonds and the stressful yet typical things families ALL grow through...
Mirai no Mirai through basic means tells of a 4 or 5 year old boy by the name of Kun-chan and the trials and tribulations when his "love" is taken away by the arrival of his younger sister Mirai and thus we see his journey of not only both his looking at his family members backstories but also learning about the world one step at a time..........with MANY screaming along the way.
Ok, LA might as well get LA's gripes done and away first before carrying on and to LA's persoanl bias would be that quite easily the most annoying thing to this movie is Kun himself, he's nothing but a selfish brat and SCREAMS ALOT, but to this defense LA will say well wha…
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Mirai, also known as Mirai no Mirai, is an animated film directed by Mamoru Hosoda. He has directed other notably well-received anime films such as Wolf Children, The Boy and the Beast, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Mirai is about a boy named Kun who unexpectedly goes back in time on different occasions to meet his relatives from different eras. This film makes a wholesome and heartwarming statement -- that family shapes who we are and are the primary reason why we exist and we should be thankful and loving towards our family members, even in the toughest of times. This film shows that family is an integral part of what makes a certain individual’s personality and that family is an important part of society. We can learn how to behave and how to grow up through socialisation. Hosoda…
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