your average "teenage hero finds his place in society" movie

Rating: 5/10 (9 January 2015)

Enjoyable but without any surprises.
The character designs are the wide eyed Disney CGI designs seen in Frozen, Tangled etc. . The setting itself is a futuristic .. well, lets say utopian city (not sure if it may not be dystopian, but i think it leans more to the utopian side).
The story follows your stereotypical arc. Unwilling kid becomes hero, finds his place in society and a team, beats bad guy.
The bad guy is a bad guy with a twist - a twist that is sadly never really explored much (probably because it is primarily a kids movie and i daresay a kid of the target age range is unlikely to complain about such things) The good guys is your typical "nerdy" gang of people that are of course brilliant, rich and deeply caring for each other (especially the protagonist whom they seem to care for a lot more than i would have expected from the brief time they actually got to know each other) The bad guy is someone unsurprising that is shown a "kind of motivation" for his actions - but the justification of the extend of his actions is hardly justified ... at all.
However - even if the story seemed to have more problems than i d like to see in such a simple setup - the pacing and humor is well placed.
It may sound a little harsh - but all in all - the movie was kind of forgettable. A time well spent ( not boring ) but 10 minutes afterwards - the rather bland characters popped out of my mind.
The only thing that actually stayed was the idea of Japan and American culture (the good parts of it) merged together to become something quite exotic and amazing.