From Me to You

As I was watching in the beginning, I kept thinking to myself: "Yeah, that's pretty good, it's pretty much a carbon copy of the first anime series, but it's cool. It's live action." And yet suddenly, out of nowhere, I started hating Sawako immensely. Because of that, every little thing started to bother me. And that's just wrong. I admit – it's not a bad movie, it's watchable, some of the actors even act (quite well at times) and Miura isn't ugly, so it's watchable (although he was prettier in Gokusen). Nothing against the actress (Tabe Mikako), but I find the character of Sawako extremely unsympathetic, and that's reflected in my rating. Towards the end we start to deviate from the anime, which was a nice bonus for me. Except that Pin was more annoying here than in the anime (where I even liked him in some scenes, but not here). Btw. Why the hell did they have to look upwards so stupidly at the end? :-D All right, I just didn't sit well with a movie that builds on a non-existent character. (03/19/2011)