Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Nonureva Really Surprised!

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

WILLIAM FLANIGAN Time Traveller / The Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Viewed on Streaming. Subtitles = eight (8) stars; cinematography = seven (7) stars; CGI/effects = six (6) stars. Director Masaaki Taniguchi's tale is crafted to appeal to a much broader audience than what the usual teenage chick flick targets. Taniguchi cleverly blends romance, science fiction, comedy, heart-rendering emotional drama, and suspense. (Mercifully, there are no scenes of Japanese cuteness!) One of the Director's objectives is to illustrate just how messy time travel can be (except for ants?) due to the creation of alternative time lines, and, especially, when it involves teenagers from different times who happen to meet up and share a romantic adventure. Leading actress Riisa Naka's performance is a Tour De Force of emotional highs and lows. Supporting cast members are also very good with the possible exception of the actor who stiffly plays a memory-wiping, bland character from five hundred years in the future (what ever romantic appeal he might have had as a real/virtual teenager in the 1970s seems to have been lost in time!). Cinematography (semi-wide screen, color) is good but could benefit from a deep-focus process where both background and foreground can be clearly seen simultaneously (the back and forth shift in the camera's focus during close-ups can be distracting and lessen the impact of dialog exchanges). Within and between scene lighting is good. Music is a bit on the heavy side for such a minor picture (it would seem to be more suitable for a larger-scale production?). CGI/effects are modest, but not cheesy. Subtitles strike an excellent balance between literal and literary translations. They are just right in length and screen duration. However, song lyrics are not translated. Recommended. WILLIAM FLANIGAN, PhD.

Tanner Luther I thought the pacing of this movie was a bit slow, but it was still pretty entertaining. It was almost like 3 movies mashed into one, being that there are three main focuses. The young woman who stars as the main character desires to find a mysterious man from her mother's past, find her father, and pursue a romantic interest simultaneously. The thing is, it manages to focus on all of these plot lines succinctly and fully rounds out the characters. The only the thing I would note is the relatively low production quality and often cheesy special effects. I would say it's more of a great work of storytelling rather than a great work of cinematography.

Charles Herold (cherold) This sequel to the terrible 1983 movie The Little Girl Who Conquered Time has many of the flaws of its predecessor. They both look like inexpensive TV movies (although TV movies look better than they did in 1983), and they both have saccharine scores. But while the 1983 movie moved at a crawl and was headache-inducing in its stupidity, this movie has a lively pace and more interesting characters,and is considerably less absurd.Unlike the 1983 movie or the excellent 2006 animated film that was also a sequel to the original story, Time Traveller does not involve a teenager hopping around through time. Instead, it involves a teenager making one hop, to 1974. The movie has some familiar 70s fashions, but a lot of the 70s details went over my head, I suspect, because I have no idea what Japan looked like back then.What makes the movie stand out in spite of its poor production values is how the characters' emotional lives were brought out so sharply and affectingly. The movie has likable characters and they have relatable problems.By most of my criteria for film making, Time Traveller is at best mediocre. But it's one of those B movies that somehow work, creating a better experience than should have been possible. I'm not saying it's a must see, but it is a very likable little film.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Owning the book and having heard nothing but good things about this 2010 version, I just had to sink my fangs into the movie, so I bought it from Amazon.And now having seen it, I am somewhat dumbfounded. The movie is long, very, very long and it takes forever to get almost nowhere, and that was a drag. It was a battle to sit through this movie, and I think I dozed off once actually. That being said, then don't get me wrong, the movie is not bad, far from it. The story told in "Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" was really good, captivating and interesting. The story really swept me up and I got immersed into it right away, it was just a shame that the movie took so long to get almost nowhere.The cast in "Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" were good enough, people did good jobs with their given roles, though this is far from the best performances I have seen in Japanese movies.I sincerely doubt that I will be putting this DVD on a second time, because it was too much of a struggle to get through.