Ponyo

A marvel.

Best of all, Ponyo never ceases to be a genuine odyssey in short pants.

If the plot of Ponyo is small as a minnow, its themes--the relationship between parent and child, between the young and the elderly, between friends, between man and nature--are large and fully realized.

Miyazaki creates fascinating, fluid and whimsical scenarios.

It's no less beautiful than anything Miyazaki's done before, and these softer illustrations, like sketches that were never refined, offer a dreamy world.

In short, it's very much a charming kids' film, created by a master of animation.

His (Miyazaki) stories, and often his character design, just leave me cold. I know I'm supposed to be magically transported by his fanciful tales and his whimsical grandiosity, but they make me listless.

Ponyo là anime kỳ ảo đáng yêu về tình bạn trẻ thơ và tình yêu thiên nhiên giữa cô bé người cá và cậu bé Sosuke.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Great art of the fish girl and Miyazaki never gets lame for doing hand-drawn instead of computer. Kind of random fantasy when it gets to the whole synopsis. Literally not a great film but it's okay.

Extremely Slow. I think it could have been done in 60 minutes with a little faster pace. Really disapointed specially because I saw the 7,5 from the user score than normally is pretty fair compared to my film-taste

I liked the movie until Ponyo became a human, up until that point, I realized thing weren't going to get better or more interesting. After that, almost nothing happened, preferring to just show us pointless interactions that meant nothing for the story. The main conflict was also not addressed until the last 10 minutes of the film, with everything being rushed. How does Fujimoto know to go to the senior center? Why is the cranky old lady thrown trying to stop him if she and Sosuke are going to go down into the weird underwater bubble thing seconds later anyway? The entire movie felt bland to me, with the characters being one- dimensional, with little to no development or anything interesting. Finally, the whole plot about his mom and dad having trouble felt completely shoehorned in, as it didn't do anything but reintroduce Ponyo's mom later on. I'm sorry, but the pretty visuals just aren't enough for me to care.