Wolf Children (2013)

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

This movie, moved me into the root of my heart. Japanese anime have such depth telling stories with connection to nature and relation between beings, both fantasy, animals and humans. The animations really brings out the beauty in all.Such a wonderful movie, i loved it.

Having married a werewolf, a young Japanese woman struggles to raise her two werewolf children on her own when her husband dies in this unusual spin on the popular horror subgenre. 'Wolf Children' is such an offbeat take, in fact, that it hardly qualifies as horror movie with the human/wolf metamorphosis more of a metaphor for kids growing and changing and ultimately having to make decisions of what they want in life. The animation is spectacular, and so much so that it is doubtful whether the film would have worked half as well as live action. There is an amazing fluidity to the way the son and daughter change with a superb sequence in which the daughter runs off a porch and momentarily disappears, emerging as a wolf - an act that oblivious onlookers mistake for the girl hiding and a dog appearing. The great animation extends to snow, rainfall and flowing water too, all of which looks incredibly realistic. The film loses something though in the decision to have events narrated retrospectively by the daughter as an adult; the narration takes away from the first-hand experience of two children wrestling with their own identity and the narrative itself focuses a lot on the mother when the two children are far more interesting with their dual identities; the girl in particular is absolutely adorable. Never to mind, the film manages to spin an engaging story as it is. Especially remarkable is how well werewolf mythology is intertwined with coming-of-age drama and how werewolves are presented here as normal human beings, far from the monsters of traditional horror lore.

This review will not be long. I will simply say, because I must say this right now. I am coming of age; I have an infinitely loving mother and a highly absent father, though he lives and I get to see him everyday. This film tore me apart, and I desperately hope to show it to both of my parents, I hope and believe that it might help us all, my brother, too. Watch this film! Your review does not contain enough lines - the minimum length for reviews is 10 lines of text.Your review does not contain enough lines - the minimum length for reviews is 10 lines of text.Your review does not contain enough lines - the minimum length for reviews is 10 lines of text. Your review does not contain enough lines - the minimum length for reviews is 10 lines of text.

This film is just plain awful;. I don't see at all how it can be liked. There is a laundry list of problems with it that I thought most audiences hated: -No plot- If you wanna do a movie where the story is just the passage of time, that's fine, but at least add a problem to solve every once in awhile. This is why no one liked The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987), but at least there, a plot DID form at the end. It just wasn't that great.-Heavily clichéd- The beginning of this movie is so clichéd it's nausea-inducing. You know exactly what's going to happen. Of course they're gonna fall in love, of course they're gonna end up together, of course they're gonna have kids, etc.-Annoying, bratty kids- If there's anything I hate in a movie more it's this. The kids in this movie are SO annoying. They wail a lot and complain about how they wanna go to preschool (what kind of kid does that?) -Bad animation- It's even worse than Digimon: The Movie (2000), and I actually liked that movie...kind of. But that's another story.-It's gross- Just look at what they eat in this movie!-Forced romance/heartwarming/heartbreaking moments- These make me cringe.-Not for kids- This "family film," has moments totally not suitable for children. There are a few scenes that are not safe for work and shall not be mentioned here.So overall, this is my least favorite film of all time. 'Nuff said.