Jalow547

It's pretty good. Nothing particularly original or groundbreaking, but different enough from most of your mainstream Hollywood fare. If you're a fan of modern Japanese dramas you'll probably enjoy this one. There are a few really great scenes. It's not a minute too long and the whole thing flows really well. I never got bored for a second while watching this.

The acting and directing are really great. I think we can expect more good things from this very talented director, who also wrote the film. The style and themes reminded me a lot of the works of Hirokazu Kore-eda, but here everything feels a little more subdued, and a little less emotional, which I suppose is less dramatic but perhaps also a closer representation of real life as we're used to seeing it.

I don't think even the biggest romantic comedy fans out there enjoyed this one. The writing is just so very sloppy and lazy that the film should never have been made. They thought they could get away with just putting together ever single stereotyped cliche from every other romantic comedy and people would flock to see it. Well I'm sure it worked. With these actors, I bet a lot of people went and saw it, and I'm sure it made money, but it sure was terrible.

It's full of terrible jokes and scenes that don't make any sense, bad characters and side plots, and poorly written dialogue. I gave it a whopping four stars out of ten instead of something less than that only because...wait, why DID I give it four whole stars? I don't know. I really don't. I guess I must be in a good mood or something, but I don't know why. After all, I just watched a truly terrible movie.

April Story is about the cutest movie I can recall having seen. I don't mean that as a good thing, but it's not necessarily a bad thing either. It's just a nice cute little film where cute stuff happens. The ending especially is obnoxiously cute.