Simply Perfect

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The heroic fight of an adolescent girl while trying to overcome personal drama is told in a wonderful metaphor with exactly as much special effects needed. and the moment, the titan arises from the ocean at the end is one of the big film moments in history. I see there are people who rate this film with 1 star. But then there´s also nail fungus.

Would have been a way cooler movie if the giants ended up being real and it wasnt a boring old twist of mental illness

At the end of the movie you will understand the storyline of this beautifull movie. Beat the giant will reveal your fear. And your fear is just that giant, living in a fantasy world till you meet someone who really cares. Life is just fragile and your beloved ones can be a victim of it. Just a beautifull filmed psychological thought.

It's a slow start, and it is confusing for a while but you understand what is happening after a while. Yeah, it has holes in the story. Yeah, the little girl is full of crap, but the acting wasn't totally bad and other than one death it isn't totally depressing. One thing that drove me nuts, location. This is supposed to take place in Long Island, NY, I mean the kid from Leeds says how the main character is the only person she knows in all of the United States. But when they are at the cemetary, if you look off to the right, you will see a grave marker for Harry Gordon Selfridge. Being an Anglophile, I just happen to know that Harry Selfridge was buried in the UK, not the US even though he was a US citizen that moved to the UK to start his retail empire. At first, I thought there was some filmmaker tribute to him like some do, but no. It was because some scenes were filmed in the UK, all abroad none on the U.S. and that was more than likely Selfridges actual grave. I would have stuck this in the goofs/gaffers section but I didn't know how to start one and there wasn't one already. All in all though, not a bad little 'rites of passage' movie.