Ponyo (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) Overview
Welcome to a world where anything is possible! Academy Award® winning director Hayao Miyazaki (2002, Best Animated Feature, Spirited Away) and legendary filmmaker John Lasseter together with Disney bring to life a heartwarming and imaginative telling of Hans Christian Andersen s classic fairy tale The Little Mermaid. A young boy named Sosuke rescues a goldfish named Ponyo, and they embark on a fantastic journey of friendship and discovery before Ponyo s father, a powerful sorcerer, forces her to return to her home in the sea. But Ponyo s desire to be human upsets the delicate balance of nature and triggers a gigantic storm. Only Ponyo s mother, a beautiful sea goddess, can restore nature s balance and make Ponyo s dreams come true. Ponyo will delight your family with its magnificent animation and timeless story.
Ponyo (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) Specifications
Ponyo confirms Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki's reputation as one of the most imaginative filmmakers working today. Loosely based on Hans Christian Anderson's "The Little Mermaid,"
Ponyo is a magical celebration of innocent love and the fragile beauty of the natural world. The daughter of the sea goddess Gran Mamare (voiced by Cate Blanchett) and the alchemist Fujimoto (Liam Neeson), Ponyo (Noah Cyrus) begins life as an adventurous little goldfish. Chafing at her father's restrictions, she goes in search of adventure and meets Sosuke (Frankie Jonas), a good-natured 5-year-old who lives by the sea. Sosuke adopts Ponyo and quickly wins her heart. Fujimoto uses magic to bring her back, but Ponyo's love for Sosuke proves stronger than his elixirs. She transforms herself into a human girl and returns to him during a spectacular storm at sea, but her metamorphosis upsets the balance of nature, precipitating a crisis only Gran Mamare can resolve.
Ponyo contains fantastic moments that suggest dreams-- and reassert the power of hand-drawn animation to create memorable fantasies: No effects-laden Hollywood feature can match the wonder of Ponyo running along the tops of crashing waves on her way back to Sosuke.
Ponyo is closer in tone to
My Neighbor Totoro than
Spirited Away or
Howl's Moving Castle, and will appeal to audiences of all ages, including small children. The #1 film in Japan in 2008,
Ponyo earned more than ¥14.9 billion (over US5 million) to become the 8th highest grossing film in Japanese history. (Rated G: A few scary moments, alcohol use) --
Charles Solomon
Customer Reviews
It 'nice to live in a time when one of the all time legends of the fun is still actively engaged in the production of work. I can imagine that in the coming years, to draw people back with enormous affection when Hayao Miyazaki, yet it is a blessing to know are (or at least hope) that will be the Best yet to come. I had to "Howl's Moving Castle", which could put Miyazaki Ponyo to leave, but his voice heard at rest. According to Wikipedia, Miyazaki is signed directly onat least two other films, but with 69 years you never know.
Ponyo is the story of a young mermaid who is running away from home only to end in the bucket with a child who assumes she's a goldfish (although, of course, as the human face). His father, Fujimoto, a man who avoids people and now lives under the ocean trying to retrieve pony with various water-based magic available. Ponyo has other ideas in mind when he used his magic to find a real human girl.Unfortunately, all this tinkering is a crack in reality that threatens to bring a total disaster for everyone to be created.
If you have more than a couple of Miyazaki's films, you see, because he, like Walt Disney has a particular style of art that meet the animators at Studio Ghibli. The first thing that struck me is that the art of Ponyo looks a bit 'different. It 'a little' rough, or maybe simple, especially with the characters of the Illuminati, and his fatherFujimoto, what I had in previous films like Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke seen. The backgrounds, however, are quite lush and beautiful and keep the dream of quality, a trademark of Miyazaki's films. Most of the film is set in the small and charming coastal town in Japan, based on current city Tomonoura. The rest is water, and is absolutely wonderful. There is absolutely teams with life, and, of course, all this hand-drawn animation. It is almost impossible these daysTo find entertainment that is 100% hand-drawn, but if I'm not mistaken there is a CGI framework, to see the film. I have to efforts of the leaders here in the drawing, if some of the most dynamic, more vivid images to applaud.
Miyazaki, as Pixar has never had a bad film, or even mediocre or less in size. I felt that Howl's Moving Castle below the average of the scale and pony Miyazaki was only slightly better. My wife was on the side that was Ponyogood as Miyazaki is much better. For me, the weakness of the story that is a mistake or two they had. In particular, it was difficult to distinguish between what should be and what should be actually prefer fantasy. I would just say that the city in the film is a dramatic event, one usually a total disaster, but this does not appear to be damaged. It 'a bit' like Wily Coyote falls off a cliff, creating a ring of dust to be fair andIn the next scene. Miyazaki is usually very consistent in his stories and in this case, it was difficult to understand the boundaries. I also heard that the animation does not save as in the previous three films of Miyazaki for the background, which are absolutely first class. I would not regret it at face value for a second to add this movie to my personal collection and all the nitpicking does not change the fact that taking this film a great one.
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