"Studio Ghibli - Brilliant!" - My daughter

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swee'pea99

Squire
Idly browsing the DVDs in our local library a few months ago I stumbled across a cartoon called Spirited Away in the racks and thought 'Didn't I read something about that somewhere?' Read the reviews on the back and thought 'got to be worth a quid'. Told 'er indores - she says 'they're never going to sit through a two hour Japanese film with subtitles.'

She was wrong. They were enthralled. And the eldest recorded a whole bunch of Studio Ghibli movies when they came up recently. Watched Porco Rosso last night - fantastic!

Love it when the kids pick it up and run with it...
 

ttcycle

Cycling Excusiast
Ghibli is great stuff. Princess Monoke is imho better than spirited away. Kiki's delivery service is great for cat lovers.

The older stuff is better and more imaginative then the more recent offerings.

Funny this, I was talking to my brother about this today.
 

Flying_Monkey

Recyclist
Location
Odawa
The Ghibli team are awesome. Possibly their only weak film is the Earthsea one, done by Miyazaki's son. There are some that are distinctly more adult, in particular Grave of the Fireflies (one of the best films about the impact of war ever made) and Only Yesterday. Pom Poko is much more serious and difficult than some (despite being about shape-changing racoons) and Princess Mononoke is also quite violent, if that matters to you. Howl's Moving Castle will appeal to those who liked Spirited Away. The most recent Ponyo on the Cliff By the Sea is lovely (and for younger kids) as is My Neighbour Tottoro - easily the simplest and best of their films IMHO. My nephew is a particular fan of their early adaptation of the Lupin Sansei comics, The Castle of Cagliostro - and it is fun. Real Ghibli fans swear by Nausica and the Valley of the Winds and Laputa - Castle in the Sky, though. I like some of their minor films quite a lot too - Porco Rosso (you mentioned), The Cat Returns and Kiki's Delivery Service (which will also appeal to younger kids).

Everything they do makes Disney look trite, so it's no surprise that Disney are gradually trying to buy them up...
 

wafflycat

New Member
Studio Ghibli films are amazing and 'Spirited Away' is my favourite, followed by 'Kiki's Delivery Service'. To call a Studio Ghibli animation a cartoon is sort of like calling a Cervelo carbon fibre bike frameset a hack bike :ohmy:
 

rh100

Well-Known Member
Flying_Monkey said:
Pom Poko is much more serious and difficult than some (despite being about shape-changing racoons)

Aha! Thank you! Was trying to remember it's name....sure we saw some of this on TV a year or two back, me and the Mrs thought we'd had our drinks spiked or something. Must try to watch all of it.
 

Flying_Monkey

Recyclist
Location
Odawa
rh100 said:
Aha! Thank you! Was trying to remember it's name....sure we saw some of this on TV a year or two back, me and the Mrs thought we'd had our drinks spiked or something. Must try to watch all of it.

The special weapons testicles tend to surprise western audiences!
 

threebikesmcginty

Corn Fed Hick...
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...on the slake
We were given Ponyo last week and the kids love it, gonna have to look out for some more Ghibli for them. I'm more of a Looney Tunes and Tex Avery fan myself but I love the real animation of this studio - great stuff!
 

pepecat

Well-Known Member
Ghibli are ace!! I love their stuff. Howl's Moving Castle is great (based on the Diana Wynne-Jones story), but I reckon Laputa and Nausicaa Valley of the Wind are better. It does make disney look rubbish (apart from Fantasia).....
 
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