Wednesday 14 November 2012

Arrietty (2010) 7/10

Starring : Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, Olivia Colman, Geraldine McEwan, Mark Strong
Director : Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Running Time : 91 mins

Pod (Strong) and his wife Homily (Colman) are four inches tall and live secretly in a human-sized house with their only daughter Arrietty (Ronan), but when a young boy with a heart condition named Sho (Holland) moves into the house and discovers Arrietty in the garden, the family’s life is turned upside-down and the start to fear that others may discover them as well.

Like all of the Studio Ghibli movies this is beautifully animated and doesn’t talk down to kids. This might not have the cute characters some might associate with Ghibli, but it is still fun filled and action packed without having action for action’s sake. The ending is a little open ended, but I don’t expect there to be a sequel as that is sort of a rarity for Studio Ghibli, so it does lose a few marks for having no real conclusion.

You’ll like this if you liked : Ponyo



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