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Porco Rosso

Shûichirô Moriyama (Actor), Tokiko Katô (Actor), Hayao Miyazaki (Director) | Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: DVD
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Porco Rosso (The Crimson Pig, 1992) ranks as Hayao Miyazaki's oddest film: a bittersweet period adventure about a dashing pilot who has somehow been turned into a pig. Miyazaki once said, "Initially, it was supposed to be a 45-minute film for tired businessmen to watch on long airplane flights... Why kids love it is a mystery to me." The early 1930s setting enabled Miyazaki to focus on the old airplanes he loves, and the film boasts complex and extremely effective aerial stunts and dogfights. In the new English dub from Disney, Michael Keaton as Porco delivers lines like "All middle-aged men are pigs" with appropriate cynicism, but his voice may be too familiar for some Miyazaki fans. Susan Egan makes a curiously distant Gina, the thrice-widowed hotel owner bound to Porco by years of friendship; Kimberly Williams is more effective as the irrepressible young engineer Fio. Porco Rosso may be an odd film, but Miyazaki's directorial imagination never flags. (Rated PG: violence, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite Miyazaki too . . ., Jun 27 2004
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This review is from: Porco Rosso (DVD)
I agree with the other reviewer who mentioned this was the favorite Miyazaki - I love Porco even more than the popular Mononke and Spirited Away. You can't go wrong with any of this masters work - but Porco has beautiful aerial scenes, well-developed characters and the soundtrack is superb. The detail in the planes and other mechanics can be more impressive artistically than nature-only scenes.

Although our protaganist is a man (okay, turned pig), Miyazaki's tradition of strong female characters continues in this film through with both the "love interest" and the marvelous plane mechanic.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Miyazaki's Autobiography---Even a Pig Can Fly, Jun 29 2004
This review is from: Porco Rosso (DVD)
From a fan and student of Miyazaki-san:

"Porco Rosso" is the master's most autobiographical work, for once he was not trying to impart any moral or environmental lessons to children or young girls or the Japanese society, as most of his other works did---but a heartfelt fantasy projection of himself (being an independent agent neither belonging to your typical Japanese Anime Industry or the Hollywood/Disney American Culture juggernaut, as symbolized by the brash American Pilot-Fighter, Curtis).

It's also a celebration of his fellow frustrated romantic and idealistic adults (many tired Japanese salary men and animators) who have not completely surrendered their youthful dreams to the MAN/military industry.

Set in Post WWI Europe, where Fascism was on the rise, the Continental world it captured was a last breath of fantastic and natural freedom before a long darkness set in...

The genius stroke here is by turning the protagonist into a PIG, a whimsical yet literal mockery on those old-fashioned/outdated all-male/brotherhood chauvinist melodramatic adventure genre it so lovingly appropriates, and a gentle dig on "mankind" in general, all in good and slightly surreal fun.
In this story, Miyazaki made fun (instead of preaching to) of his society, himself and his prominent role in it.

Yet, behind all the cartoony surface lies the touching elegiac sadness of a lost past and a yearning hope (placed esp. on a young female) for a better future, straight from Miyazaki-san's cynical/sentimental heart.

Presented as a light-hearted lark only makes its immersing nostalgia and lyricism all the more spontaneously enchanting
and unexpectedly affecting. A magical paradox of his great art.

"Porco Rosso" is the "Casablanca" of cartoons with a touch of Roald Dahl, and the most under-rated and overlooked of Miyazaki's fabulous work.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A bad ending, but overall okay, Jan 13 2010
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Porco Rosso is not one of Hayao Miyazaki's greatest films, but it wasn't bad. The only things that I did not like were that it did not explain much about the protagonist's curse, and did not have an ending that actually revealed what happened. Also, Porco that is known as a womanizer, although nothing much of this is shown, and he still becomes shy when he sees a seventeen-year-old girl.

Porco is an amazing pilot and loves flying. He used to fly for the war for Italy. But now he has a job fighting air pirates. Porco, however, had been transformed into a pig because of an unknown curse that remained unknown throughout the movie. The air pirates hate Porco because he is always stopping them, and so they hire an American pilot to defeat Porco.

Will Porco be defeated? Will he ever turn back into a human?
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