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This movie was bad. I got interested in Air by a random AMV I saw at Otakon and decided to seek out this anime. My thought process was that the movie would have a higher production value than the TV series; this was my mistake. I now know that they have different directors and that the TV series is regarded as being better.

Sorry about the rant, let's get to the movie review.

Animation: The first thing you notice is the slightly experimental visuals. Lots of sun glare and strange but effective uses of the background becoming the foreground. It ... gives a slightly surreal but totally fantasy setting. It works. This is the only saving grace of the movie. Unfortunately it's not blended well with the regular animation and is more visual eye candy than an emotional additive to the experience.

Story / Characters: Is god-awfully average and uneventful. A traveler stumbles upon beautiful, typically average girl with mysterious, deadly illness. Through a serious of cliche events she shows him that even he is capable of love. The parallel between the old-story and the current was interesting but didn't move me either way. If it wasn't for interesting animation I would have stopped watching this.

Sound: The theme is memorable and blended well throughout the movie. Besides this, the music is cheap, average and is just simple noise filler.

When I watch an anime I there's two things I NEED in order to be entertained, art and story. The art was there but it was shallow. The story was something a 5 yr old wrote, a hodgepodge of other stories. I bought this dvd and I know I'm never going to watch it again. I DO however want to check out the tv series. From what I hear the storytelling/ animation is done more effectively.