A great achievement for anime. Mainstream and yet art-house.

Rating: 10/10 (16 April 2003)

This movie is beautiful in many ways. Being a guy, I'm not all that excited about any movie that at some point deals with emotions. I'm 22 and I think this movie is great for all ages. (maybe not 3 years old, there is a _little_ violence) The reason being that people at different ages will take different things from the movie. There are many exciting and hilarious parts that amaze you visually and sound-wise. At my age, I'm about to get married, so it really hit me hard when they got to parts about unconditional love. I (hating to admit) cried like a baby. The majority of this film has great pacing, so there's never too much mushy stuff without an action or comedy beat. I'm FORCING all of my friends to see it. In fact we're going to see it again today. This movie is profound and hit me like Vanilla Sky did, but without the nudity & swearing. =) Also the merging of 2d & 3d graphics is 98.9% seamless...but at no point does it take away from the experience.