Review: Ponyo (Miyazaki Hayao)
Aug. 16th, 2009 08:34 amYesterday I took
nateprentice's kids to see the English dub of Ponyo at one of the art-house theaters downtown. (It was their first time in such a theater -- they found the upscale selection of treats at the concessions stand disappointing. :-) We all enjoyed the film thoroughly. The plot takes its inspiration from "The Little Mermaid," but you might as well ignore that -- this is not a story about romance, though it is a story about love. The plot, as somebody's review pointed out, is simple at base -- boy meets fish-girl, boy loses fish-girl, fish-girl returns, boy must prove himself worthy of her -- but like the Devonian creatures that accompany Ponyo into Sosuke's seaside town, it's big and fantastic and trails a not a few whiskery subplots that seem strange, taken on their own, but considered as part of the whole add to its charm.
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