The girl who leapt through time.

I didn't catch Ponyo on Comic-Con friday as originally planned, but i did happen to stumble upon this film.
After walking for miles looking for the Ponyo event, time of course had to pass by me like a train.
So i just gave up.
I grab a Mocha frappuccino from Starbucks and walk down to the convention center like a badass who's about to have a blast.
Sadly, I drank it before i could sit in a theater room. It was a small. And i'm watching my figure at the moment and figured that a venti will not burn off from this whole day of walking. Sigh.. It was enjoyable though. So now i'm sitting in a room about to watch a premier of Fist of the North Star-Legend of the Dark King. As usual, you have a man blessed with the power of a God. And my gawd it was entertaining. The first punch blew a hole in some guy's stomach and the shockwave obliterated a hole into the sky scrapper behind the soon to be dead man. As soon as that happened, the audience is clapping from erection. Yes. It was THAT awesome. So then eventually it ended.. I got up.. And looked at the schedule. The girl who leapt through time eh?

As I sit in the theater room and it seems that i missed about 10-20 minutes of the film. But i see that our time traveling heroine Makoto Konno appears to have slipped and fell on a device that came from the future. It was a time machine/walnut hybrid. haha.
As the books she was holding is falling towards her face, time suddenly stops and shes now having a bizarre acid trip (for lack of better words). After that she just goes on her day wondering what fuck just happened. Shes already having a bad day. The jello was missing, she blew up shit in her Home Economics class and currently shes ridding home on her bike.
SPOILERS
:::The ridding home part is probably where her day will end as SHE RIDES DOWN A HILL AND DISCOVERS THAT HER BIKE'S BRAKES DON'T WORK AS SHES HEADING INTO A INCOMING TRAIN!
I sit and i watch as our cute high school girl is about to get destroyed by a passing train.
I'm holding my face right about now... I know whats going to happen.. But still, this movie knows how to do drama and suspense. So obviously she survives because time reversed some how.::::
She goes apeshit trying to figure out how the hell did she do it (time leap into the past). So in a desperate attempt she manages to learn by throwing her self head first into something to re-appear in the past.
She uses this new power to eat anything she wants as much as she wants and to change situations to her liking. I'm in no way going to speak anymore about the plot as i REALLY want you to see for your self how this goes.. But Her doing all these 'fixes' to her life ultimately ruins someone elses.. As this happens she now tries to fix all she has done wrong.
This movie was well thought out. It will remind you of The Butterfly Effect in alot of ways of how altering situations in the past will change the present. But how this film tells the story is just amazing. The characters are lovable, the character development is outstanding, the life situations are cute as hell and the acting makes you think you're back in school again being there with Makoto and the gang. If this wasn't a film, the genre would be Slice of Life/drama/Romance. (Seeing how Slice of Life isn't a movie genre). All in all, i'd have to say that this is the best Anime film that i have ever seen.. And now i'm actually glad that i didn't go to the Ponyo event. But still disappointed that i didn't get the Venti sized drink to enjoy this movie with (I did have string cheese and Nilla Wafers though). The only bad thing i can say about this film is part of the execution. Theres parts that didn't really need to be there. Like scenes that stare at an object too long. But other than that, this is almost a flawless movie. When it finished, the theater gave it a standing ovation.
Thats the only time i've seen one of these at Comic-Con.
As I walk out of the Screening, I'm hit with a huge smile that would last the whole night as my heart strings are pulled but only my kidneys are effected.
Have you ever seen a movie sooo good that your kidneys had some strong unusual feeling?
First time it's happened to me.

SUGGESTIONS;
I've saw this on a HUGEE screen with surround sound and a enjoyable yet modest crowd.
If you want your kidneys to hurt like mine, i suggest you find a shit load of friends
and rent a theater. If you can't do that, view it on a 1080p 40 inch or bigger screen with
120Hz shitting out of it (with friends).
You'll need surround sound for sure as the audio in this movie uses the
left and right speakers individually quite a bit. The music is gorgeous too.
If you watch on a basic tube tv or computer screen, you pretty much miss out on the animation capturing your heart.

-AWARDS-
WINS
-Gertie Award for the best animated feature film
at the thirty-ninth Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia.
-The Animation Grand Award, given to the year's most entertaining animated film
-Animation of the Year prize at the thirtieth Japan Academy Prize.
at the prestigious sixty-first Annual Mainichi Film Awards
-The Grand Prize in the animation division
at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival.
-Animation of the Year
-Director Award
Hosoda Mamoru (The Girl Who Lept Through Time)
-Best Original Story/Work
-Tsutsui Yasutaka (The Girl Who Lept Through Time)
-Scriptwriting Award
Okudera Satoko (The Girl Who Lept Through Time)
-Achievement in Art Direction
Yamamoto Nizo (The Girl Who Lept Through Time)
-Character Design Award
Sadamoto Yoshiyuki (The Girl Who Lept Through Time)
At the sixth annual Tokyo International Anime Fair,
-Special Distinction for Feature Film
at France's thirty-first Annecy International Animated Film Festival (June 16, 2007)

WIN COUNT: 11 (that i know of)
Other shit
It was nominated for, but did not win, the twenty-seventh Nihon SF Taisho Award.
It played to full-house theatres during a screening in August 2007 at the ninth Cinemanila International Film Festival in Manila, Philippines.
Tsutsui Yasutaka praised the film as being "a true second-generation" of his book at the Tokyo International Anime Fair on March 24, 2006.

Side notes;
I loved the characters sooo much, that i felt empty from having to leave them so soon

Links
Anime News Network page
^^^As of now its the 8th ranked title on the site.
But i personally feel that its better than some of it's "higher ranked" animes.
Code Gease and Spirited Away for example.

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VERDICT
Art A
Animation B+
Story B
Characters A+
Acting B+/A-
Music B
Laughs B-
Action N/A
Drama A-
Execution A (Just enough time to tell the story and get in everybody's personality, this attachment to the characters allows the drama to succeed later in the movie.)

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9.3