Brian Koontz
12-07-2002, 12:11 PM
I'm talking about the recent Japanese animated film, not the other one which I think was by a German immigrant to the US in the 1920s.
The animation is much more detailed than that which is put out by Disney... this is my second Japanese animated film (Spirited Away will likely be my third when it emerges on DVD) and I didn't know what to expect.
The plot was simplistic if long and detailed. The film's greatest strength (besides the high quality animation) might have been the good characterization (at least for an action movie). The characters have a good emotional range although you frequently aren't presented with very good reasons for those emotions.
Being an apparent adaptation of that earlier American film, I was struck by how much more effective the social message of the danger of Modernism is back when its highly meaningful.
A good movie, although I have a feeling (or at least I'm hoping, given all the reports) that Spirited Away will be much better.
The animation is much more detailed than that which is put out by Disney... this is my second Japanese animated film (Spirited Away will likely be my third when it emerges on DVD) and I didn't know what to expect.
The plot was simplistic if long and detailed. The film's greatest strength (besides the high quality animation) might have been the good characterization (at least for an action movie). The characters have a good emotional range although you frequently aren't presented with very good reasons for those emotions.
Being an apparent adaptation of that earlier American film, I was struck by how much more effective the social message of the danger of Modernism is back when its highly meaningful.
A good movie, although I have a feeling (or at least I'm hoping, given all the reports) that Spirited Away will be much better.