Decades before Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth won the Oscar for best documentary, Hayao Miyazaki was drawing attention to the earth’s plight with his animated films, such as Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and My Neighbor Totoro. With Ponyo, the veteran director continues making environmentally conscious, visually audacious films for children and adults alike. Ponyo is Miyazaki’s loose adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s "The Little Mermaid", but the result is nothing like the 1989 Disney film in either plot or mood. The story has darker moments that could have appeared in Andersen’s fairy tales, but it never loses its sense of awe and glee.
Voiced by Miley Cyrus’s younger sister, Noah, Ponyo is a curious, strangely powerful goldfish who is threatened by a human fisherman’s net. The web dredges up an ocean of trash, and young Ponyo is forced into a jar,...
Voiced by Miley Cyrus’s younger sister, Noah, Ponyo is a curious, strangely powerful goldfish who is threatened by a human fisherman’s net. The web dredges up an ocean of trash, and young Ponyo is forced into a jar,...
- 8/25/2009
- CinemaSpy
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