i seriously do not think that this movie deserve an overall rating of positive ( average ) and compare to the movie which in term of storyline and theory it would have be go for in my opinion and the butterfly effect . though keep in mind and this be come from someone who expect a lot out of movie that be acclaim . ( an positive on imdb be decent and though butterfly effect have ~100k vote a oppose to around 4 5k vote on this movie ) sure and the movie have great eye candy and be nicely animate . but the character be deliberately make to be very dim witted and it obvious to someone like myself and or someone who mature enough to tell . the way the character be so flawed ( seemingly deliberately and just to fill a plot that can not fill itself if you know what i mean ) remind me so much of how character from like and 7th heaven ( the american tv show with a bajillion adopt kid in a family ) . i feel that this be a way for writer to cut corner just give the movie some sort of scaffold just to give the animator something to animate . i can go on and on about the thing that really bug me about the storyline and the character . lot of the dialogue felt way too much like extremely artificial and meaningless filler to me . the way makoto be think after chiaki make his confession be very irrational and stupid . and she never really sit down to think and just leap through time whenever she felt like it and even if in the end she leap for chiaki . it just feel like the character never learn anything fundamental . even after explore that aspect and there be many other issue bring up that make this movie so incredibly incomplete a a story deliberately vague just to desperately fill up a storyline and like cheat on a long term paper in order to make your essay an extra page long by increase the font size of the period at the end of a paragraph or something . very nice animation and but very disappointing story . i only watch this movie because a friend ask me to . lately i have be kind of avoid anime because i expect way too much out of story line and dialogue and character development and just . everything that make you think and question . if makoto make an entry on fmylife . com during the middle of the movie and i feel that most people would have vote you totally deserve it . if most people vote i agree and your life suck then it probably would have be because of her aunt who just never tell her the right stuff ( again and just for the sake of drive the storyline someplace . ) good for a young age group and eye candy or if you want to just sit back and not think too much do not watch it if you expect something remotely profound and witty and smart or innovative out of the storyline .