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Summary: All American animation is killed just by this single title
Review: Possibly the best work of Miyazaki except for spirited away Perfect animation, great story, magnificent music score; this is a must for a first time anime' viewer or a junkie (such as myself)
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Summary: The Best Movie EVER!!!
Review: I happenned to come by this movie while flipping through the channels on my sattellite. I saw this and thought "O.k, its anime, and its about some princess and a 'poisioned prince'." After about 5 minutes, I was absorbed. I don't even and earthquake would have moved me from that T.V. set. After it was over, I searched the channels for it again, but found out it was only coming on tommorrow. Now I'm getting it for Christmas! This is the best gift ever!!!
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Summary: Sensational!
Review: This movie has tremendous impact.....spiritually, emotionally and portrays the wisdom of innocence.
It's difficult to describe this masterpiece because it conveys so many simple, yet powerful messages....that it's best
to watch it and feel it's beauty. Definitely in my Top 10 list of all time great movies! See it!!
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Summary: More Mononoke please!
Review: This Dvd is clear and crisp with nice menu options. It gives info about the cast of characters. This movie is a stirring tale of a prince who must leave his kingdom after fighting a god turned demon which inflicts a powerful curse which will kill him. Along his way he runs into a monk and eventually ends up in a place called Irontown. Here he meets a wolfgirl named Mononoke.
This is where the story really picks up. If I tell anymore it would be a spoiler for you. But I have to say this is by far one of my all time fav anime's that I own. The story is great, the voices very nicely chosen for the characters and a overall great DVD.
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Summary: Princess Mononoke Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This movie is awsome! It is the best movie I have ever seen! If you are smart, you will buy this! I dont think any movie is better than this! Its got combat, lots of swords fights, and plenty of action.
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Summary: Review of Princess Mononoke
Review: I am really into anime and manga, and I LOVED this movie. The plot was extremely well done, the animation was beautiful, and the cast of characters had more than a few big names. All in all, I would recommend this movie to people new to the genre, or those who are obsessed with it!
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Summary: See With Eyes Uncouded
Review: Japanese anime has a never-ending ability to surprise and refresh my concepts of that is possible in an 'artificial' format. Perhaps this is merely due to my status as a rank amateur, but I seem to get more excited by this format than I have by any other in some time. There is something in anime that reaches past the traditional limits of modern illustrative animation For example, take 'Princess Mononoke.' On the surface, this is not a complicated film. Prince Ashitaka receives an evil wound while defending his village from a forest wild boar god that has been driven insane by poisoned bullet. The village wise woman tells Ashitaka that he is doomed to death, and sends him on a quest to the home of the ruined deity, where his task is to 'see with eyes unclouded by hatred.' And so, Ashitaka comes to Irontown where the need for resources has put the town in conflict with the natural world about them. The beautiful Lady Eboshi leads the town on a perpetual assault against the forest. There, with the aid of Jigo, the Emperor's representative, she plans to kill the forest spirit and give its head to the Emperor. Opposing her is the wolf girl San, Princess Mononoke. San and her wolves are fighting a losing battle to stop Eboshi and her villagers. She has renounced her fellow humans and seeks to kill all who endanger the forest. Into the middle of this steps Ashitaka, who tries to help both sides to survive, and receives few thanks for his concern. Too often, this type of plot would invite a great deal of overacting and bombastic dialogue. Yet that is exactly what does not happen in Hiyao Miyuzaki's delivery of this tale. The viewer will come to love the villagers and can at least admire Lady Eboshi for her fierce determination and care for her own. Jigo is driven by greed, but he is hardly unwise, and knows how to bend with circumstances. Mononoke is angry, fiercely bloodthirsty as well as beautifully and tragically heroic. Only Ashitaka is all of one color, despite a wound that threatens to turn him into a demon. Instead of being a pretty film with a message, Miyazaki has created a film with many levels. He turns his eye to many conflicts that have no clear resolution and allows them to retain the dignity of their context. Thus, an animated film becomes more real than reality, where even the tragedy of change can become life affirming. The naturalness of the translation and dubbing (carried out under the watchful eye of Neil Gaiman) will also surprise those of us who are used to having to watch the sub-titles to get a true sense of what is being said. This film is extremely worthwhile, and watchable by any audience that can manage the unavoidable violence. One that will stay in mind for some time to come, and that I will mention when someone asks me what I would recommend as an introduction to the complex world of anime.
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Summary: Whose side is he on anyway?
Review: This question is at the heart of Princess Mononoke. Most of the other characters at one time or another think he is against them. At first viewing it's hard to tell what the main character is up to. He saves the Princess, then he saves Lady Eboshi. Then he's going to help the "bad guys"? What?!?! Who is evil and who is good? It's not instantly obvious, which makes Princess Mononoke stand up to repeated viewings - many repeated viewings. The story is complex, but not too complex. It's main themes are humanity versus nature (i.e., itself) and hate. Hate destroys and eats away flesh. The tentacle-like demons fashioned from hate provide some of the most incredible animation, and some of the most poignant scenes. Another theme is the idea that sometimes the best side to be on is neither side. The animation is about as good as it comes. Miyazaki is one of the best, and this is one of his best pictures. If the story happens to bore you (it shouldn't), just look at the incredible animation that never lets up. The animated grass growing towards the end is particularly incredible. Animation does not get much better than this. Visually and thematically, there are not many as good as Princess Mononoke out there. Given its themes, it's somewhat surprising that Disney brought this masterpiece to the States. Sure, some of the English dubbed voices are a little off, but this doesn't detract from the film much. It's interesting to watch the film in its original Japanese with English subtitles. The characters come across a little differently this way, and the translations are different in the subtitles. For instance, the "Forest Spirit" becomes the "Deer God" in the subtitled version. The voices also are incredibly different, and those who don't appreciate Billy Bob Thorton's drawl will enjoy the Japanese version. There aren't many movies worth owning and watching over and over again, but Princess Mononoke is definitely one of them.
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Summary: Princess Mononoke
Review: As you know Princess mononoke is the best anime movie ever!It starts off whith ashetaka rideing yako thore the forest.But I donet want to give away inything else.When I saw it for the frist time i was a mased on how will the storyline was.When I showed my ferinds they dident git it.So whith tis movie you have to yose your brain.I hope you like it!!!
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Summary: Disney, Give Matsuda a Little Room on That Pedestal!
Review: As an old-school anime fan I was at first put off by the obvious American influence in this movie, especially in the dubbed version. I was very sad at the thought of such a classic cult phenomenon as Anime' being mainstreamed; the same feeling I had gotten when I saw that, after twenty years, George Lucas had finally digitized Yoda. I was sure I was about to watch the death of something unique that had been swallowed into the mass media forever, and I prepared to greive and gripe nonstop.
That feeling lasted about thirty seconds.
I have sinced watched Princess Mononoke about fifteen times, and each time it gets better and better. Old-school fans, take heart - it's not the gut-twisting violence of Akira or the tongue-in-cheek comedy of Dirty Pair, but Mononoke offers superb, smooth-flowing animation of exquisite detail and texture. All the quality one could ever expect from today's high-tech animation is readily visible, but you won't see CG anywhere.
The story details and violence might be a bit much for the little kids, but adults will love it. Simplistic themes of man-against-man and man-against-nature tangle intimately with underlying tones of mystery, community, love, despair, and ultimate sacrifice. This is a complex movie; it lacks the rough edges so common in line-drawn animation. Neither is it a bland, commercial delivery mass-produced for inspection. It is ART. It is PASSION. It sits in the mind and heart like a well-shaped stone in a Zen garden, awaiting contemplation without distressing the stomach.
I highly recommend this movie to anyone who has an interest in animation (Japanese or American - Disney fans, beware the quality coming at you, it might unseat you!) or to families with children old enough to grasp the concept of a small struggle inside a larger one, inside a massive one. My seven-year-old will be seeing it shortly - with me. AGAIN. Aw, heck - I recommend it to ANYONE who enjoys a good story and likes to watch good movies. Just make sure you have a lot of time on your hands; you're going to watch this disc often.
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