Must See Movie...

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

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Usually, animes don't appeal to me, but I got absolutely addicted to Hetalia.First of all, the concept of it is brilliant, a country is personified, and their habits are stereotypical. Be warned, if you are easily offended by foul language or stereotypical comments about countries, then you won't like this show at all.The show is hilarious, this is because of its crude humor, it provides a huge amount of comedy, a touch of drama, and a tad bit of action. The show is pretty educational too, and has a lot of facts about the history of each country.

It contains a rude--*Extreme edit here* Okay. I didn't even watch an episode in 2012. Now, in 2013 to 2014, I did watch some episodes, I know many things about the show and the manga. I'd have to admit it; It's sometimes funny, but the humor is sometimes a bit offensive. Not recommended for the easily offended.Plot: That's the main problem, it has no plot at all.Like Lucky Star. But it still remains funny, with it's jokes and humoristic atmosphere (But it has it's serious moments). It's also a bit educational, but it's mostly played for laughs. Characters: The characters are mostly likable. Some are likable, some are not. You will hate them if you're offended by foul stereotypes.Overall, it's decent. 6/10

I think this idea is awesome. It has the ability to convey to people the inter-country politics of history. It could display the relativistic goods and bads in a way people could understand more readily than reading mountains of history books.Instead it just shows the general attitude countries have towards each other while the countries' personalities are shown (such as America eating too many hamburgers) in horribly impertinent ways (america is introduced eating burgers during WWII?).In essence: one of the best ideas I've ever heard, and executed worse than I can imagine.

This series of short episodes where each character represents a country and national stereotypes are to the fore could easily have caused offence but for the most part managed to avoid that by making all of the characters likable; although it might seem that way to me because the worst thing said about my country was that it can't cook! Most early episodes follow poor cowardly Italy as he tries to befriend Germany, they are later joined by Japan. Meanwhile another group of countries, including America, England, France, China, Russia and Canada are getting together to fight against them; this gives Italy plenty of opportunity it wave his white flag. While most of the stories take part in this time period we also see Italy's childhood with his friend Holy Rome, England finding a young America and even an appearance by poor unrecognised Sealand.After the first episode I didn't think I'd bother with the rest but after a few months returned to the series and watched the second episode which got me hooked. Some times the change in times can be a little confusing but there are usually historical notes explaining if a new story line is beginning. With a few minor exceptions all the countries are male and while there is nothing overtly sexual going on between them viewers could be excused for thinking their friendships could have gone that way. While I wouldn't recommend using this as a way of learning history it does mention events and countries that might inspire viewers to learn more about the real countries and events. Given how short the episodes are I'd certainly recommend checking out a few to see if you like it; especially as it can currently be viewed legally on Funimation's YouTube Channel along with the next series which is known as 'Hetalia World Series'.