#HandoZenryoku

#HandoZenryoku is that offbeat, quirky movie that moves with some inimitable energy right from the start and serves a tale full of humor and heart. This wacky premise-about underdogs who want to achieve an impossible feat-finds itself coupled with equally lively performances and a spirited tone for keeping an audience engaged. Over-the-top style in the film often feels hectic and veers near to excess, at the cost of losing emotional depth. Entertaining narrative running on a meandering route through subplots is sometimes not focused on meaningfully adding to the overall story. Even with these flaws, #HandoZenryoku is an enjoyable, though somewhat uneven, ride that will appeal to fans of unconventional comedies.

When you set aside the absolute havoc that social media has wreaked on the actual social skills of an entire generation, it's incorporated pretty well into this movie about a group of high school boys who are trying to re-popularize their school's handball team by posting cool handball images online using their smartphones. It's a light comedy-drama with some funny moments and it does somewhat critique the emptiness of doing things just for likes from strangers on the internet. There isn't too much going on storywise however and the characters aren't all too interesting and memorable either so I would say it's an okay watch, but you probably won't watch it a second time.