Actually it is a very beautiful film. The animation is incredible. It's one of those films you have to allow to just wash over you. Although the plot isn't particularly dense ... basically a character piece with little in the way of actual story, it deals with its themes (first love, growing up and growing apart, longing for what you had and can never have, etc) with a real deftness of touch.
My only criticism would be that the final act (the film is spilt into three parts, entitled 'Cherry Blossom Story', 'Cosmonaut' and '5 Centimetres Per Second') doesn't really add anything to the story, ... or rather it starts to look like it may, and then finishes rather abruptly. Obviously I gather it's meant to be ambiguous, but it left me feeling a little disappointed more than anything.
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