You have to see it. No excuses!
It’s a real nice piece of Japan animation, a well done product perfectly in style with the Miyazaki’s flavour I love so much.
To a very careful observer is perfectly clear this is not one of the master’s work, it’s just different. I left the cinema with a strong feeling of something left incomplete, something that was not complete all around, just like a little amount of the magic went lost between the screen and my eyes. Probably I was just expecting a little too much from it, waiting for it to be another Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Porco Rosso or Spirited Away (definitely my all time favourite among Miyazaki’s works)… GorÅ did a very good job, in line with Studio Ghibli good tradition, but far away from the perfection of his father’s jobs.
All said, it still remains one of the finest animation product of the last year or two, now let’s wait for 2008 next step in Hayao Miyazaki’s career, which sure won’t disappoint my anime-fan side :)
