A movie I enjoyed

I'm not really a movie person, so when someone asks me about my favourite movie, I have trouble rememberig the movies I've seen. It's not because  I don't like them, and I think I have watched a fair number of them, but you could say I have a serious problem remembering some things.

But this time I'm going to tell you about a movie I watched not a long time ago. This time, I remember because sometime around last year I had invited some friends to my appartment to play around and watch movies like we always do. That time we watched Summer Wars, a japanese animated movie directed by Hosoda Mamoru. It' was about a highschool student who suddenly was asked to do a job by the most popular girl in school, which he accepted without knowing what it was about. It turned out that the girl wanted him to act as her boyfriend and introduce him to her weakened great-grandmother at her 90th birthday. Sounds fairly normal, right? Well the story is set in a fictional present time, where almost everyone in the world uses a virtual world game tat was something like a social network. Well the entire world worked using that network. The protagonist is a introverted and shy boy who is really good at mathematics, even getting the second place on the Maths Olympics in Japan only because he got one number wrong. So one day he recives a mail with a complicated code on his cellphone and thinking it was a mathematic problem he decided to solve it and sent the code back. The code was something like a virus that activated an artificial intelligence program that began stealing all the avatars of the game and all hell broke lose. So they had to fight this thing and try to destroy it because the world was in chaos and a bomb was sent to japan because the virtual network was connected to everything. At the end they did it and it was all good.

I really enjoyed this movie because it was a romantic comedy with hints of science fiction. It was really funnny to watch and it kept your attention all the way through the movie. Not to mention that the development was somewhat unexpected.