Free Advance Movie Showing of PONYO

August 10 , 2009

 by John Chung

 Photo by Gary Lau

I went with my twin 8 year old boys to see this visually thrilling, unbelievably wonderful,
creative, whimsical breath-taking masterpiece by the legendary Japanese animation artist
Hayao Miyazaki.

This really proves we don’t always need car chases & explosions to make a good movie.

Ponyo centers on a little boy named Sosuke and his relationship with a goldfi sh princess
named Ponyo who longs to become human. Halfway through the movie, I realized this movie
was similar to another movie... the Little Mermaid.

Ponyo is a loving little fish in the sea who falls in love with Sosuke, then decides what she wants
most (much to the distress of her sorcerer father) is to become a little land-based girl.

Now, we all love everything Disney & Ponyo was distributed by Disney, but I felt this was so
much better than Disney’s Little Mermaid (I never thought I would ever say a children’s movie was
better than a Disney version). This movie had the cute-ness factor at it’s highest.

There were a lot of cute & funny parts in the movie for both kids & parents to
break out in laughter.

Star studded names lend their voices to the English version:

Tina Fey as Sosuke’s mother and Liam Neeson as Ponyo’s ecology-minded father.
Also, Cate Blanchett, Lily Tomlin, and Matt Damon.

Though my kids enjoyed the movie very much, I felt this animation was a bit long
at 1 hour 41 minutes.

I am really surprised this movie hasn’t been in the mainstream.

I guess car chases & explosions still rule....

Overall, I give this movie an A+.

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