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Incoherent eco-babble, Mars 27 2003
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The plot can be summed up in two words: Incoherent eco-babble. Oh yeah, and we shouldn't nurture hate in our hearts. Other than that, the animation was very good but, with the exception of a few landscape scenes, not what I would call stunning. My 9-year old daughter enjoyed it more than I did, but my 12-year old was instantly weirded out by it. That said, once you get past the silly non-plot, it wasn't a bad movie, just not as good as most of the reviews here would have you believe.
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A bit too far out for this westerner, Janv. 10 2003
I was expecting something out of the ordinary, and I ended up getting a bit more than I was bargining for..The first thing that hits you with this movie is the outstanding animations, and really nice english dub (A minus for Billy Bob though, he sounds so bored that you kinda end up feeling sorry for the guy), you also get quickly drawn into the plot, and develop a certain amount of feelings for the main characters on both sides of the struggle. Then it gets muddy..forest spirits and things that problably has a lot of bearing in japaneese mythology is the focalpoint of the storyline, and for a westerner like myself, it gets too strange and remote. I think I can grasp the basic meaning and theme of the film, the human greed and the animalgods are also accepted gratiously, but I cant grasp the mean of getting there..it gets too grandios, too weird..the ending is like David Lynch on acid -- It seems intelligent, but simply doesnt make sense for me.. The movie is however well worth watching, it is technically brilliant and emotionally engaging, if you dont mind weird supernatural elements I even recommend it, but if you want to see something with bearing in our own world you may want to try out a more down to earh anime like Perfect Blue.
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okay, Nov. 9 2002
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The second half was Boorrring. Get Billy Bob's voice outta there too. Talk about miscast! The story had its moments, but they were all in the first 40 minutes.
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okay, Nov. 9 2002
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The second half was Boorrring. Get Billy Bob's voice outta there two. Talk about miscast! The story had its momemts, but they were all in the first 40 minutes.
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Just don't look too deep, Juil 20 2002
After reading all these great reviews about the movie, I decided to give it a go, and I have no idea how it garnered so much praise. It's got vivid colors and generally good animation, but the theme of technology encroaching upon old traditions is nothing new, except this time they had talking pigs and cute little forest spirits, which kind of reminds me of Fern Gully, and in many ways this movie is like a Disney movie. The characters do not develop except in the most cliched of ways: the main character is your typical do-gooder hero type and really doesn't grow throughout the movie, and the villainous village leader realizes the error of her ways after a catastrophic loss...blah blah blah. What's worse is that it seems like the makers couldn't decide whether they wanted to make this a family film or an action anime flick, resulting in some strangely comical action scenes where heads fly in the air but no blood comes out. Despite its shortcomings, I'm giving it three stars because it's fairly entertaining if you are just looking for something fun and simple to watch for 2 hours. If you're looking for anime that'll leave you overwhelmed with emotion, try the Evangelion series instead.
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pretty good not great, Avril 27 2002
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I bought this because I had heard so much about it, that it was the best selling movie ever in Japan, etc. etc. While it definitely was interesting, I was a bit disappointed. There are many beautiful scenes, and the plot is set out in a very promising way, but then the movie sort of loses direction and drags on way too long. Also I felt there was a lot of gratuitous violence (I mean stuff that was really not necessary to the plot, and that kind of grossed me out, even more than a "live" R rated movie)
Anyway, it WAS worth seeing, I just felt it didn't live up to all the rave reviews I've read.
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"Fire Bad --Tree Pretty", Janv. 26 2002
This is, indeed, a beautiful production; real eye-candy.I had no difficulties with the voices -- i particularly liked Billy Bob Thornton, who caught just the nuance with his characterisation that Jack Elam at his most comically villainous brings to live-action films. The story isn't all that complex, but the characters and their relationships *are*. Is the hunter, who wants the head of the Forest Spirit to win a fabulous reward that the Emperor has promised, an evil man? Certainly, many of his actions are what one might call evil or lead to evil, but i'm sure he doesn't think of himself as anything but a business man. Is the Lady of Irontown, who wants to kill the Forest Gods (demiurges incarnate as huge talking animals) and destroy the forest, so that she can mine ore more easily, evil? Certainly, evil will come of *that* plan -- but the community she wants the ore to support consists in large part of girls she has rescued from brothels and lepers whom no-one else will take in, whom she has not only taken in but made respected and respectable members of society, which certainly indicates she is something other than evil incarnate. Are the Forest Gods themselves, turning fang and claw and tusk against humanity, battling in blind fury when nothing else seems possible, evil? Hardly. But they are representative of a way that *must* pass with the coming of humanity, and hard as it seems, their time is over. Is "the system" evil? Is human civilisation, in and of itself, evil? Is it possible to reduce the whole issue, as Buffy does at one point on TV as "Fire bad -- Tree pretty", saying that wildness and trees take precedence over human progress and expansion? Or, conversely, to assert that, *of course* humanity's needs take precedence over those of nature and wilderness? The answer -- to either of the last two questions -- of course, is "No, it isn't." Everything must proceed by compromise, in balance, or we and the world we live in will go down to disaster. The earlier parts of this film look as if it may turn out to be a pure tree-hugger's "ecology" spiel, but by the end, it is obvious that the survivors (on both human and forest sides) have taken the lessons of their adventures to heart, and are probably going to manage to come to some sort of modus vivendi that will enable both to exist and to interfere only minimally with each other. Would the real world could learn such lessons. ((BTW -- i didn't read the subtitles, i listened to the English-dubbed version [which is excellent in terms of sound quality and voice selection], and i didn't notice anyone being referred to as "Princess Mononoke" or any variant thereupon. Is the title a descriptive phrase that merely *sounds* like a character name == "Princess of the Wolves", or some such -- or werenames changed for the dubbed version?))
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Hmm...Mixed feelings about this one, Janv. 21 2002
When my sister bought this fabulous Dvd in the US, I was instilled with wonder that many of you will have felt when encountering a Miyazaki film for the first time. However, when I recently watched some of Miyazaki's other works in a Miyazaki film festival, I've changed my opinion.
Don't get me wrong, I still love this movie, and I was impressed by the lack of any identifiable "Bad Guy". The English dub was among the best I've seen (Bravo Neil Gaiman! All hail the greatest western comic author!), but the likes of Claire Danes irritated me to no end. I liked the use of English voice actors (well, only one I suppose), but it seems fundamentally wrong for one of the leading characters to have a whiny voice with an American twang to it (cough cough, Sai, cough cough).
As epic as some of his earlier films, yet with a depressingly cheesy ending. The musical score is catchy and fits the mood of the movie well, while the animation rolls on to capture your imagination. This being one of the first Miyazaki films to extensively use CG graphics, I feel they have mastered the art of electronically colouring scenes. But I felt the CG was used in such a way as to make the separation between hand drawn scenes and CG too obvious. I hope his next film, "Spirited Away", they will make better use of CG morphing technology.
Unless trying to complete your Miyazaki collection, buy Nausicaa, Laputa, and Totoro first, otherwise leave this one for the odds and ends of your budget.
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Princess Mononoke (3.3 stars), Janv. 7 2002
This extremely popular Anime film about a young man's journey to find the nature god to cure his demonic arm is an epic in scope, but marred by problems. When this film was released in the U.S. it was chocked full Hollywood names for the voice-overs, and distributed by Miramax Studios. It was celebrated by critics and loved by audiences....and "Princess Mononoke" isn't a bad film. I don't see how it became so popular in Japan though. It's PG-13 rating gives it away that it's strictly for profit and not for art. For having that rating it pushed the envelope as close as it could, which is a plus. The film, however, was marred by over length. The film wasn't bad, the story was rather interesting at times, it had two stories going on at once. It did slow down near the end, it could have been 20 or 30 minutes shorter, and I'm not exaggerating. Besides the conclusion the film is pretty well done, the animation is clean, the colors are lush. It's much brighter than most Anime, which isn't necessarily a good thing, but it works well with the film. Overall "Princess Mononoke" is grand in scale and names, but does fall short when compared to classic medieval Anime films such as "Ninja Scroll."
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Princess Mononoke-Not bad if you remember the names, Déc 19 2001
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The first time I saw this film, I was pretty much blown away. I had to see it again, and although the second time wasn't quite as impressive, I never am quite as interested by the second viewing. This movie was rated action but it might easily be in any genre; for instance, there was a romance element, the level of plot was more than par for a typical drama, and it might even double as a resource for understanding Shinto and Taoist religions.
The main character is the an inhabitant of a small northern Japanese town, who gets bitten by a demon. As he is one of the few remaining young males and likely of nobility in the town, it is imperative for him to be cured. The local sages tell him that he needs to seek out a nature spirit, but he soon finds out that a town near the spirit's dwelling is slowly being deforestated to extract iron. This is a tale of his struggle not only to preserve natural balance, but also a struggle with his inner being, as the same infection that gives him power to stop his enemies also eats away at him a little more with each use. I gave it three three stars because I've usually found that if I get my expectations too high, it spoils the movie.
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