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KvP:
Critics seem to like it, deem it "children's movie with universal appeal" or the like.

Be My Head:
This is playing all next week in a local independent theatre here. FUCK YES!!!

Playing in anyone else's cities?

Blue Kitty:
Playing a few miles away from me, hope to catch it real soon.

De_El:
Character asks Ponyo about her father:
"He hates humans and he keeps me in a bubble!"

It was sooo cuuuute. The story didn't hardly make sense though. That's okay really, because I didn't go with a really winning plot in mind, but it was some nonsense about the balance of nature and all of a sudden the world is going to end because Ponyo isn't in the sea? It follows some mysterious logic, but whatever.  I really liked the backgrounds in the movie; the fact that it's a 2-d animated movie is really laid bare, the layers of animation are really apparent and you can even see the coloring lines of the immobile "sets".

Ikrik:
I really didn't like it.  I think the animation really rubbed me the wrong way.  I think it's great to have a simple, clean, smooth art style but Ponyo just crossed the line and was simply boring.  My eyes kept wandering because there was absolutely nothing to look at it any way.  And when you're a filmmaker who's previous efforts have had such beautiful and detailed art (Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's) to move to such a minimalistic art style isn't the right choice.  I think that if the colours were perhaps a bit brighter or more colourful that would have helped things. 

It's a kids film, but unlike his other films this one isn't nearly as adult-friendly.  There's nothing in here that will keep you entranced the whole way through. 

I'm not a huge Miyazaki fan, I think he's a great filmmaker but when people refer to him as "like the god of anime" I tend to roll my eyes.  I didn't watch it hoping for something like Mononoke or Spirited Away, I watched it hoping for a great film.  But I didn't really enjoy it all that much, maybe you guys will. 

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