One of the anime master's weaker efforts.
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08/20/09
Ponyo (2009)
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Reviews Counted:113
Fresh:103
Rotten:10
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: While not Miyazaki's best film, Ponyo is a visually stunning fairy tale that's a sweetly poetic treat for children of all ages.
Theatrical Release:Aug 14, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $14,816,643
Synopsis: From the Academy Award®-winning director and world-renowned Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki comes PONYO, a story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale “The Little Mermaid.” ... [More]
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Noah Cyrus, Matt Damon, Tina Fey
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Reviews for Ponyo
I sure like Miyazaki's visual style, but could he for once make a movie that actually made sense? Or have realistic characters, like a mother who wouldn't leave her 5 year alone during an extremely dangerous storm?
08/16/09
I was, I’m afraid, a little lost at times.
08/17/09
A children's film that's at once overly simplistic and needlessly nonsensical.
08/12/09
Top CriticProbably the most saccarine horror film I've seen in years.
08/14/09
If you consider Teletubbies to be a work of creative genius then, yeah, okay, Ponyo is great, too.
08/13/09
Hayao Miyazaki is off his game with this film that has weaker art and animation than his usual films and a script that needed another draft or two.
09/02/09
[N]ever coheres into a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts, as Miyazaki's true classics have done...
08/24/09
Ponyo is something of a disappointment. Leaving aside the plot deficiencies and storytelling awkwardness, Mr. Miyazaki's latest simply doesn't look good.
08/28/09
Miyazaki's artwork can be lovely -- and the delicate, watery colors of Ponyo are particularly well done -- but he's still a slave to the genre's peculiar traditions.
08/14/09
Top CriticWhat held in the animator’s previous films as eccentrically multifaceted dream logic comes off for once as a series of non sequiturs -- but really, why complain while sucking on an Everlasting Gobstopper of eye candy?
08/12/09
It's very much a charming kids' film, created by a master of animation.
08/14/09
Heralds a return to the child-like wonder of Miyazaki’s enduring My Neighbor Totoro. And what do you know? It’s another masterpiece.
08/23/09
...a sweetly lovable and visually trippy movie that young tots and their parents can enjoy in equal measure.
08/12/09
lacks any real sense of conflict or danger. It makes up for it. . . with a delightfully absurd internal logic that is perfectly keyed into the way small children see the world
10/03/09
Until its fizzle of a finale, Ponyo, Hayao Miyazaki's latest artisanally-crafted animé daydream, brims forth with an appealingly willy-nilly inventiveness pitched to a child's sense of wonder.
08/10/09
Several notches below [Hayao Miyazaki's] masterworks, which makes it only, oh, super-duper wonderful ... it makes big magic, seemingly effortlessly.
08/12/09
A magical, uplifting and visually stunning film that's exhilarating for kids and adults simultaneously.
08/14/09
I liked that it wasn’t bound by the conventions of normal storytelling and I loved seeing a film that is just hand drawn animation.
08/17/09
Hayao Miyazaki proves that he is not only a master animator but also a master storyteller. Ponyo is easily one of the best films -- animated or live action -- of the year.
08/14/09
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