Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy

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 :(

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.

There is no way that anyone, let alone young girls should be watching this and think that it's normal. Why writing something so awfully harmful and beyond all else abusive!!? This is not love. This is not romance. This is just low level behavior in people that you should not be around let alone tolerate. Would've given it minus 10 if it was possible. Big NO!

If you have never read the manga you will have no clue what is going on. This has no character development or story. It is merely just a random chain of events. The only thing that makes it connect is having read the manga and knowing what happens in between these events.

Not only did they botch the story and characters but the filming style was horrible too. It made me motion sick just trying to watch and what is with the random scenes of random stuff. They cut so much important things to instead have clips of a bird in the sky and some cranes and lights and staircases. Not even sure how this movie was 2 hours long.

" 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.