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I look forward to watching this movie. Miyazaki makes good movies, but I'm afraid the movie's palette was poorly chosen. Anyway, I still prefer Spirited Away.


Sayonara,

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Miyazaki is a master of his craft. No one else in animation is anywhere near his level.

Knocked it out of the park again. :D
 
Haha, Pokemon 11 beat this out of the Jp theatres.
But I won't be seeing it because they got voice actors with no prior experience. Plus they're Disney channel kids. The only reason they're the actors is because they're related to the more famous ones.
 
I just downloaded the Japanese version, and it still wasn't very good. In most of Miazaki's films, his main characters have a problem that the audience can relate too, but with Ponyo....she's 5, and doesn't really care about what is happening. Like for instance, Howl's Moving Castle, the main character gets her age and beauty taken away and then becomes ancient, and she has to deal with it and at the end of the movie she fixes it. Or Kiki's Delivery Service, Kiki gets her powers taken away and she has to deal with it through out the whole movie. Ponyo is the one who made everything messed up in the first place and then in the end she doesn't even fix it herself.

But yeah, it certainly seems this movie was aimed at a younger audience....lol
 
i saw the movie a couple weeks back in the theaters... here is my 5 points for the movie...

1. The Voicework is really strong, and the voices suit the characters, so no problems with the dub work on this one...
2. ZOMG ITS LIAM NEESON!!!!!!
3. everything was VERY VERY colorful, and popped out of the screen...
4. Ponyo running across the water officially makers her Jesus... and the movie kinda sacreligous...

and last but not least....

5. Ra's Al Ghul+Milotic = Ponyo
 
Ponyo running across the water officially makers her Jesus... and the movie kinda sacreligous...
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you're assuming everyone sees the world via a christian worldview. let me assure you that is NOT true, considering that the movie is japanese and japan is not a christian country...

'mom
 
SD PokéMom said:
you're assuming everyone sees the world via a christian worldview. let me assure you that is NOT true, considering that the movie is japanese and japan is not a christian country...

'mom
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that is true... i am merely pointing out why it would be offensive... i already know that Japan is not a christian country, and not everyone sees the world with a christian/catholic/whatever deriviative of catholicism view... in fact, the group i went with, we were joking about it...


keep in mind these are simply things that stuck out to me in the movie (nor am i offended by the scene at subject)... i freaking loved the heck outta it, and am willing to buy it on whatever home format it comes to...
 
Psh, I could care less if Ponyo walks on water. Walking on water isn't sacrilegious at all.

I only saw Spirited Away, and I thought it was ok, but I don't know if I want to see Ponyo.
 
Cute movie, but completely lacked plot. Adorable imagery is not an excuse to forget to add a story.

Specifically, I wish they had given more back-story to Ponyo's parents. They seemed like they were building up to something when Fujimoto (Ponyo's dad) commented on how filthy humans were and how he hated them, but it was never really built upon or ever alluded to again. I'd love to know how he and Ponyo's mother met, and why he decided to live under the sea in a bubble-house.

It's like the movie thought it had a plot, and halfway through just gave up on it; it was rather disappointing, really, and made me feel like the $10.00 I paid for the ticket was a waste.
 
rokman said:
I watched it for free online with subtitles.

I just wish the color palettes weren't so pastel, after Spirited Away it really looks like Miyazaki is just getting lazy, hehe.
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Of course they were more pastel... this movie was completely done in watercolors and by hand. Lazy it is NOT. As much as I loved the movie, leaving 5 year-olds alone in the middle of a giant storm didn't work for me. I know it was needed to advance the story but my goodness!

Of course, MY five-year-old loved the movie. ^_^ In a couple of years she'll appreciate Spirited Away as well, which she saw when she was 3 but it didn't make any sense to her at the time.
 
This was another incredible film from Miyazaki, but I still prefer his older and more obscure works, like Pom Poko, the Cat Returns, Porco Rosso, only yesterday, and the 1st thing he ever did, the 26 episode anime for TV:Conan, boy of the future, from 1976 or 78, check it out if you guys get the chance!
 
I am not sorry I saw it, but the more time that passes the less I remember liking it. The fact that boys mother was completely irresponsible was never adressed or explained. She needlessely risked her and her son's lives by taking the seaside road instead of the mountain road durring a typhoon for no other reason then to give the animators an exuse to show Ponyo chasing after the car from atop the waves. Then after they barely make it to the house alive, in the middle of a blackout she leaves two 5 yearolds alone and drives off again into the storm. Again for no real reason at all except to give the animators an exuse to show the two 5 yearolds go off on a road trip by boat arouind the flooded island all by themselves. Instead of the storyline of the movie driving the animation.
It was the Animation was driving the plot. The movie was pretty and all but that was it. By far the weakest of the Miyazaki films. I think I would have enjoyed it more if it wsa like Disneys Fantasia, and it contained no diolouge in the film, just the visuals set to Classical Music and you would have a much better film.
 
I'm going to see it soon. I've liked all Miyazaki movies I've ever seen, particularly Princess Monanoke, and Spirited Away, so I'm sure I'll like this one all the same.

I'll update with opinions probly tomorrow.
 
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