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Summary: ATALANTA-MONONOKE.
Review: This is NO kiddie cartoon! This is serious anime! Under the fabulous direction of Hayao Miyazaki, who was obviously influenced by the Greek legend ATALANTA (& every bit as violent) when he created this.Normally, anything Miyazaki can be shared with the whole family, so make sure your kids are desensitized to blood & decapitation before viewing this. BUT violence is just a piece of the story, as any Miyazaki story is, it's far too complex to explain & you can never get the full picture.
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Summary: A wonderful movie
Review: Well worth the money to buy. I thought it was wonderful and entertaining. This is an easy choice compared to the usual movie fair, and is a move I can reccomend to parents and childern alike. It would be somewhat scary for a younger child, but the overall message of the movie is a positive one.
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Summary: I wish I hadn't bought this
Review: I was intrigued by the effusive praise that so many ... heaped upon this movie, and I thought to myself "Wow, this sounds incredible - I'd better check this out." However, this film ... It's way, way too overlong. It comes in at about 2 hrs 20 mins, yet so much of the movie is painfully repetitious that this could easily have been trimmed to 80 mins. The American voice-overs are AWFUL. Minnie Driver is passable, but every other actor makes it sound like a school play. They're hammier than a side of pig. I can't believe anime has evolved so little since "Akira".
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Summary: Best Movie EVER!!!!!
Review: This movie was the most touching and action-packed story I have seen in my life!As the story of Princess Mononoke unfolds,a story of,courage,hate,hope,and sadness is conjured.
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Summary: A Philospohical Disney movie
Review: I know the term above is an oxy-moron, and actually, it is. Disney only published it here in the states. This movie was essentially the "Titanic of Japan." Makes you wonder what America was thinking then, huh? Certainly not American mainstream (I think its because the story actually needs brain power to comprehend) but amazingly hit a high note for its American DVD release, especially with critics and fans of anime. Its truly a shame that such a high profile release for both America AND Japan would get such a limited theatrical release here in the states. Because it featured such big-name actors, it might've attracted many theatre-goers. Anime has an American misconception that its all Child's Play. On both physical and philosophical levels, this is definately not a kid's movie. It has a little violence, but nothing compared to what most animes bring. The story is also a masterpiece in of itself, which sheds an interesting perspective upon war: neither side is in the right. The main character seems to be the screenwriter himself if he truly believes this perspective. The main character serves as the middle-of-the-road type character for many of the conflicts between the 2 sides. The artwork is astounding. Shadows are cast upon moving characters with a stunning reality, the colors are lush, the picture is clean and crisp, and the characters have a personality all of their own just by their appearance. The lip-synching is wonderfully done, I did not see any "Godzilla" type lip-synching, infamous of Japanese movies. Even so, I liked watching the movie with Japanese voices, despite the well-polished American voice-overs, simply because it adds to the atmosphere. If there's one anime movie that is a must-buy, this would be it.
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Summary: Best fantasy picture I have ever seen.
Review: This movie has the kind of vision that authors and artist dream of creating. Seeing the animation for the first time in the theater was simply amazing, the drawing of the forests is the best animation I have ever seen. The story is a complex battle between forces with different goals more than it is a story of one odvious good side vs. one hiddious bad side. The story is about a prince from a remote tribe has to search out a cure for the evil that is slowly eating away at his body. He finds the sorce of this conflict in an acient forest gaurded by animal gods who are protecting thier forest from an iron mine. One of the forest gods has an adopted human daughter who is the love intrest for the prince. They fight out this conflict in several battles, most of them involving three or four different interested parties. It surprised me how many people I saw this movie with thought it was just a chessy enviromentalist movie. The main character sides with the side of the people distroying the forest as much as he sides with the old forest gods. This is a story of one warrior tring to resolve a deadly conflict between two sides that he resects. This is the best animated film I have ever seen.
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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE EVER
Review: I loved it. It is simply a master piece. It bdid not have to much gore (compared to other animes)...and very 3-D characters. I dout that any movie will ever surpase it in my mind.
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Summary: It's worth watching !
Review: I am Japanese. So I don't know American version. I think Japanese does't translate into English correctly. If you want to understand this film fully, you should watch Japanese version. But you wil be touched anyway. I would recommend this to all.
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Summary: ...And God made anime...
Review: This is by far without a shadow of a dout, the best anime I've ever seen. You have your thirst for action quenched in the gory and well done fight sequencses and a plot and cast of characters that is in short, top notch. Even someone who doesn't like anime can get into this story of the ill effects of hate, the environment and love. Even the American voice acting is good compared to most other translated movies that range from okay to absolutley sucky. Truly breakthrough entertainment, enjoy.
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Summary: I'd give it a million stars if I could!
Review: WOW! This movie left me speachless when I saw it. I never knew a cartoon could have so much depth and feeling. Set in Midevil Japan, A boy named Ashitaka is the last prince of an almost completeley wiped out tribe. When killing a demon god from harming his vilage, he is cursed. He himself will turn into a demon. So he is forced to leave his village and seek out the spirit of the forest. One thing you should know is that all the animals have the power to talk. But if the spirit of the forest is killed, the animals become stupid, as they are today. Ashitaka journeys through a forest and finds two wounded men. He safely transports them to their village of iron town, where he finds the leader to be a woman. Lady Iboshi. The town is always at war with the animals because there is iron in the forest and they are after it. The only way to get it is to cut down the forest and this makes the animals mad. On top of this, the wolves have a human daughter. Princess of the wolves. She enters the village to attack Lady Iboshi, but Ashitaka stops her. He flees with the Princess, but he was shot. Realizing that he is on her side, she takes him to the enchanted part of the forest where the spirit lives. The spirit heals his flesh wound, but does not lift the curse. When the big battle happens against the boars and the humans, the boars loose. One of the boar gods begins to turn into a demon. Princess Mononoke tries to stop it and it begins to change her too. Whats worse is that Lady Iboshi is on her way to kill the spirit of the forest. Ashitaka has to stop it in time and save himself and Mononoke from the curse. The soundtrack is also great. I recomend both. Buy them today.
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