Bet your curious aren't you, you think just because I review a majority of films positively, that I will automatically give this movie a good review. Keep in mind I have given films that are considered Masterpieces poor reviews. Bet your shaking in fear now. Well, allow me to continue and give, this movie, my truly honest opinion.
Released in 2001 in Japanese theatres, the film had received rave reviews and was the highest earning film since Titanic. Seeing this, lifelong fan of Miyazaki John Lasseter was determined that all should see it. He set work on hiring many professionals fit for the task of dubbing the film to perfect timing. Not only bringing in renowned script writers and fitting words to mouth movements, he used actors that would try nail the personalities of each individual character. These included big names like Tara Strong of Fairly Odd Parents, Teen Titans and Xiaolin Showdown fame (are you fan-gasming yet?) and Daveigh Chase from Donnie Darko, The Ring and Lilo and Stitch (fan-gasm commenced). Miyazaki explained how he had two other ideas to pitch, but were rejected. Instead he pitched an idea based off of his friends lazy ten year old daughter (remind you of anyone?) and Alice in Wonderland.
The story follows the standard ten year old sour-puss with no regard for others, whines a lot and is a spoiled brat. Chihiro (荻野 千尋) and her obnoxious parents are moving to a new town and she is terrified of change. On their way, they get lost and wind up in a abandoned train station which leads to an abandoned fair ground. While there the parents engorge themselves on a feeding frenzy like pigs (Oh the anvil of irony...OW! Who put that there!). Exploring, Chihiro discovers a bath house still running, but is confronted by a young boy, named Master Haku, who tells her to leave. Running back she finds her parents and you'll never guess what happened to them. No really, guess. Tracing her steps, she makes her way to the entrance, but finds it turned into a river. Haku finds her and brings her to the bath house. Assuring her and her parents safety, Chihiro searches for a job off of the malevolent witch Yubaba, to stay in the spirit world and save her parents.
Lets get off what is bad about this film and there are somethings that really irk me about it.
On is the parents, I have never met any pair more inconsiderate of their child's opinion or safety, or as greedy as the pigs they are a metaphor of. This culminates into a poor first five minutes which introduces us to the Character Chihiro in such a negative light, as with her parents. The other is the abrupt ending and the parents not learning their lesson about greed and consideration.
Hey guess what.....DECEMBER FOOLS ASS HOLES! Do you think I would dislike this film just because it's extremely well received in all regards, no, this film deserves all its praise. The animation, the creativity and imagination, the incredibly likable characters and the sheer amount of EPICNESS packed into two and a half hours. Chihiro evolves, like a main character should from a whiny, terrified girl, to a self assured and braver hero. I compare her to Luke Skywalker or Frodo or Harry Potter. The character is set up, placed on a journey and learns more about themselves and evolves to something greater. At the end you are happy to see her become something greater and are proud to see how intelligent a character is by learning from her mistakes. The other characters like Kamajii, the boiler geezer(Her surrogate Grand-father), Lin, a worker who employs her (Her surrogate big sister), Zeniba, a rival witch (her surrogate Grand-mother) and Haku, her closest friend in a world as mad as a march hare. I called each character those roles because I just love how they support and treat with upmost respect Chihiro. One thing I didn't like about the hype this movie is that it was treated as complete originality, which when you think about it most ideas are inspired subconsciously by another idea. It was sort of inspired by Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, but it wasn't responcible for the creation of scenarios, characters, designs, locations and lessons learned. Included also is the scary imagery of pig parents and the spirit No-Face. I believe he inspired the spirit of Summer-ween from Gravity Falls. His quiet nature and monstrous appearance really is unsettling. But he is a quirky character with a lot of heart. I guess you could say that about the entire film, nothing but heart and passion, a vision was brought to life in the most incredible way possible. Everyone has their favorite scene, mine is Chihiro serving the Stink spirit and saving it's life. It really fills you with joy and happiness. The other is when the characters are travelling on a train. Doug Walker pointed this out, but the scene has a good sense of Atmosphere and has great pacing. No dialog and beautiful imagery is perfect combo for a mesmerizing scene. I also love the Music, especially The Return when Chihiro is travelling back to the bath house.
One thing I don't get is why everyone says Anime and Animation are different. It's not, Anime is a form of Animation. Animation is, and I quote,
You know I would say watch this movie quickly, but would I dare say you have already seen it.
I would love to hear your opinion, please send in your response (To do so, click No Comment and type in what you'd like to say) and I am also on Facebook and Twitter, please like or join or click to follow my posts.
The story follows the standard ten year old sour-puss with no regard for others, whines a lot and is a spoiled brat. Chihiro (荻野 千尋) and her obnoxious parents are moving to a new town and she is terrified of change. On their way, they get lost and wind up in a abandoned train station which leads to an abandoned fair ground. While there the parents engorge themselves on a feeding frenzy like pigs (Oh the anvil of irony...OW! Who put that there!). Exploring, Chihiro discovers a bath house still running, but is confronted by a young boy, named Master Haku, who tells her to leave. Running back she finds her parents and you'll never guess what happened to them. No really, guess. Tracing her steps, she makes her way to the entrance, but finds it turned into a river. Haku finds her and brings her to the bath house. Assuring her and her parents safety, Chihiro searches for a job off of the malevolent witch Yubaba, to stay in the spirit world and save her parents.
Lets get off what is bad about this film and there are somethings that really irk me about it.
On is the parents, I have never met any pair more inconsiderate of their child's opinion or safety, or as greedy as the pigs they are a metaphor of. This culminates into a poor first five minutes which introduces us to the Character Chihiro in such a negative light, as with her parents. The other is the abrupt ending and the parents not learning their lesson about greed and consideration.
Hey guess what.....DECEMBER FOOLS ASS HOLES! Do you think I would dislike this film just because it's extremely well received in all regards, no, this film deserves all its praise. The animation, the creativity and imagination, the incredibly likable characters and the sheer amount of EPICNESS packed into two and a half hours. Chihiro evolves, like a main character should from a whiny, terrified girl, to a self assured and braver hero. I compare her to Luke Skywalker or Frodo or Harry Potter. The character is set up, placed on a journey and learns more about themselves and evolves to something greater. At the end you are happy to see her become something greater and are proud to see how intelligent a character is by learning from her mistakes. The other characters like Kamajii, the boiler geezer(Her surrogate Grand-father), Lin, a worker who employs her (Her surrogate big sister), Zeniba, a rival witch (her surrogate Grand-mother) and Haku, her closest friend in a world as mad as a march hare. I called each character those roles because I just love how they support and treat with upmost respect Chihiro. One thing I didn't like about the hype this movie is that it was treated as complete originality, which when you think about it most ideas are inspired subconsciously by another idea. It was sort of inspired by Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, but it wasn't responcible for the creation of scenarios, characters, designs, locations and lessons learned. Included also is the scary imagery of pig parents and the spirit No-Face. I believe he inspired the spirit of Summer-ween from Gravity Falls. His quiet nature and monstrous appearance really is unsettling. But he is a quirky character with a lot of heart. I guess you could say that about the entire film, nothing but heart and passion, a vision was brought to life in the most incredible way possible. Everyone has their favorite scene, mine is Chihiro serving the Stink spirit and saving it's life. It really fills you with joy and happiness. The other is when the characters are travelling on a train. Doug Walker pointed this out, but the scene has a good sense of Atmosphere and has great pacing. No dialog and beautiful imagery is perfect combo for a mesmerizing scene. I also love the Music, especially The Return when Chihiro is travelling back to the bath house.
One thing I don't get is why everyone says Anime and Animation are different. It's not, Anime is a form of Animation. Animation is, and I quote,
Animation is the process of creating a continuous motion and shape change illusion by means of the rapid display of a sequence of static images that minimally differ from each other.So there, stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
You know I would say watch this movie quickly, but would I dare say you have already seen it.
I would love to hear your opinion, please send in your response (To do so, click No Comment and type in what you'd like to say) and I am also on Facebook and Twitter, please like or join or click to follow my posts.
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