Hotto Gimikku: Gâru Mîtsu Bôi

I read the manga and liked it a lot, so I had high expectations, but the movie was one big disappointment... The plot is rushed and it's not explained properly, the dialogue is bad and the scenes seem disconnected, like they were just thrown together randomly. One redeeming grace is the background music, like Pachelbel's Canon in D (one of my favourite classical pieces) and Beethoven's Fur Elise, though the latter was often remixed in modern and completely inappropriate versions. The story had great potential, too bad they made a mess out of the movie :(

This movie was a whole mess and quite frankly the editing and the storyline made it uncomfortable to watch. I almost gave up watching it halfway and honestly wish I would have.

I'm kind of at a loss of words here because my mind is still reeling from what I just experienced.... I didn't even finish the film because I got so frustrated. I read the manga years ago so I know the supposed ending but i'm not even sure if they kept it the same and quite frankly I don't care. The only reason I even gave this 4 stars and not 1 is because I laughed quite a lot, so when you look at it as a comedy it has some redeeming qualities, I guess. The acting was mediocre, the dialogue was infuriating (the amount of time the word stupid and cute were said makes them seem unreal to me now, like are those even words ; who knows) Don't even get me started on the editing I felt like I was partaking an acid trip half the time and the other half I started dozing off with the boring panorama shots. So many situations were left unanswered so if you haven't read the manga good luck with this one.

" Hot Gimmick : Girl Meets Boy " is not for everyone.

When it comes to the artistic part, the movie had an interesting cinematography, but, most of the time, it gave me motion sickness, as the camera zoomed in and out, the characters kept running and changing positions too suddenly and quickly. The story was also too thinly spread and the way it was presented it made it confusing. So, it was hard to enjoy it as the whole theatrical approach distructing. The performances seemed good though.

So, overall, four out of ten.

Except it isn't. What a mess of a movie. I don't know the manga so I have no clue what's the story here. It goes very quickly from one scene to another and a lot of pausing is involved. At some point I just gave up and watched it like it's a music video. It became somewhat enjoyable then.