Review of Hello World

Hello World is an interesting movie. It almost felt like two different movies stuck together halfway through, since the story had a tonal/genre shift and became more convoluted. I will say I enjoyed the first half more. The second half went knee deep into the sci-fi time-muckery, which can just get confusing on your first watch. The art is very good. The backgrounds and set pieces are simply gorgeous. The character animation is 100% CG, which is only distracting for the first few minutes. Once you get used to it, you can see how well it was executed. Especially in the second half once stuffstarted firing up action-wise.

Sound design was pretty good, but I felt like the audio was unbalanced somehow. Characters spoke softly and then would yell at a much louder volume. Music and sound effects would kick in loudly as well, so I had to keep my hand on the volume remote.

The characters were nice for the most part. Very cute and appealing designs, and cute personalities. Character motivations didn't make complete sense to me in some parts.

Overall, enjoyable movie. I don't regret watching it, and I had fun with it. You might like it too, so give it a chance :)