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Genre | Kids & Family, Anime & Manga |
Format | Animated, Multiple Formats, Dubbed, NTSC, Dolby, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen |
Contributor | Matt Damon, Hayao Miyazaki, Cate Blanchett, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin, Noah Lindsey Cyrus, Frankie Jonas, Cloris Leachman, Betty White, Tina Fey See more |
Language | English, French, Japanese |
Runtime | 1 hour and 43 minutes |
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Welcome to a world where anything is possible! Academy Award(R)-winning director Hayao Miyazaki (2002, Best Animated Feature, SPIRITED AWAY) and legendary filmmaker John Lasseter together with Disney bring to life a heartwarming and imaginative telling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale THE LITTLE MERMAID. A young boy named Sosuke rescues a goldfish named Ponyo, and they embark on a fantastic journey of friendship and discovery before Ponyo's father, a powerful sorcerer, forces her to return to her home in the sea. In her quest to become human and reunite with Sosuke, Ponyo stumbles upon and releases her father's magical Water of Life and triggers a gigantic storm. Now balance must be restored to the world they all cherish. PONYO will delight your family with its magnificent animation and timeless story. (C) 2009 Nibariki-GNDHDDT(C)2008 Nibariki-(C) Disney
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Ponyo confirms Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki's reputation as one of the most imaginative filmmakers working today. Loosely based on Hans Christian Anderson's "The Little Mermaid," Ponyo is a magical celebration of innocent love and the fragile beauty of the natural world. The daughter of the sea goddess Gran Mamare (voiced by Cate Blanchett) and the alchemist Fujimoto (Liam Neeson), Ponyo (Noah Cyrus) begins life as an adventurous little goldfish. Chafing at her father's restrictions, she goes in search of adventure and meets Sosuke (Frankie Jonas), a good-natured 5-year-old who lives by the sea. Sosuke adopts Ponyo and quickly wins her heart. Fujimoto uses magic to bring her back, but Ponyo's love for Sosuke proves stronger than his elixirs. She transforms herself into a human girl and returns to him during a spectacular storm at sea, but her metamorphosis upsets the balance of nature, precipitating a crisis only Gran Mamare can resolve. Ponyo contains fantastic moments that suggest dreams-- and reassert the power of hand-drawn animation to create memorable fantasies: No effects-laden Hollywood feature can match the wonder of Ponyo running along the tops of crashing waves on her way back to Sosuke. Ponyo is closer in tone to My Neighbor Totoro than Spirited Away or Howl's Moving Castle, and will appeal to audiences of all ages, including small children. The #1 film in Japan in 2008, Ponyo earned more than ¥14.9 billion (over US$155 million) to become the 8th highest grossing film in Japanese history. (Rated G: A few scary moments, alcohol use) --Charles Solomon
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : G (General Audience)
- Product Dimensions : 0.57 x 5.33 x 7.49 inches; 4.16 ounces
- Item model number : 10185400
- Director : Hayao Miyazaki
- Media Format : Animated, Multiple Formats, Dubbed, NTSC, Dolby, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 43 minutes
- Release date : May 17, 2015
- Actors : Noah Lindsey Cyrus, Frankie Jonas, Cate Blanchett, Liam Neeson, Tina Fey
- Dubbed: : English, French
- Subtitles: : English, French, Spanish
- Language : French, English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Japanese (Dolby Digital 5.1), Unqualified
- Studio : Disney Presents Studio Ghibli
- ASIN : B002ZTQVGQ
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #11,973 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #133 in Anime (Movies & TV)
- #1,010 in Kids & Family DVDs
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Ponyo is the story of a tiny mermaid who runs away from home only to end up in the bucket of a young boy who assumes she's a goldfish (despite her obviously humanlike face). Her father, Fujimoto, a human who now shuns humans and lives beneath the ocean tries to retrieve Ponyo using various water based magic at his disposal. Ponyo has other ideas in mind as she uses her own magic to try and become an actual human girl. Unfortunately all of this mucking around has created a rift in reality that threatens to bring complete disaster on everyone.
If you've watched more than a few Miyazaki films you'll notice that like Walt Disney he has a particular artistic style that the animators at Studio Ghibli adhere to. The first thing I noticed about Ponyo was that the art seemed a somewhat different. It's a bit rougher or perhaps more simplistic, particularly with the characters of Ponyo and her father Fujimoto, than what I've seen in previous movies like Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke. The backgrounds by contrast are absolutely lush and gorgeous and retain the dreamlike quality that is a trademark of Miyazaki films. Most of the film takes place in charming little coastal city in Japan based on the actual city of Tomonoura. The rest is underwater and it is positively glorious. It absolutely teams with life and naturally this is all hand drawn animation. It's almost impossible these days to find animation that is 100% hand drawn but unless I am mistaken there is not a CGI frame to be seen in the film. I have to applaud the effort of the animators here in drawing some if the most dynamic, vibrant images ever.
Miyazaki, like Pixar, has never produced a bad or even mediocre film only varying degrees of great. I felt that Howl's Moving Castle was below average on the Miyazaki scale and Ponyo is only somewhat better. My wife, on the other hand, felt that that Ponyo was every bit as good as Miyazaki's very best. For me the weakness was in the story which had a flaw or two. In particular it was hard to draw a distinction between what was supposed to be reality and what was supposed to be fantasy. Let me just say that the town in the movie undergoes a dramatic event, one which would generally be an utter disaster and yet here there seems to be no harm done. It's kind of like when Wily Coyote falls of a cliff and creates that ring of dust only to be up and around in the next scene. Miyazaki is generally pretty consistent in his stories and in this case it was hard to tell the boundaries. I also felt that the animation wasn't as strong as in the previous three Miyazaki films save for the backgrounds which are absolutely top notch. I don't regret for one second adding this film to my personal collection sight unseen and any nitpicking doesn't take away from the fact that this is a great film.
This is the story of a small fish who escapes from the submarine of her father (a sea-wizard) and happens to taste a drop of blood from a young boy and becomes human-like for a while. The boy, Sosuke, names her Ponyo, and the main story is all about the friendship and love that develops between the two of them (and Ponyo's fondness of all things human, like ham sandwiches, of all things). But their relationship also disrupts the natural balance between sea and land, and disasters in the form of floods and a typhoon loom to threaten everyone, not just the innocent friends. So the story is not just about a developing friendship, but the responsibilities that come along with that, to the people in the fishing village, to the elderly people in the retirement home (where Sosuke's mother works), to the creatures in the ocean, and beyond that to the planet itself. All, of course, is resolved in the end.
Beyond the story, however, Ponyo has some of the most amazing animation scenes, especially of the raging waves that lash the shore in a typhoon, coming alive into wild creatures of fury. I thought this might not translate so well to a smaller screen, but I was not disappointed. The disc is really a beautiful rendering. You can turn down the sound and still have a fine time simply viewing the animation, one beautiful image after the other.
Some who've seen Miyazaki movies before may get a sense of deja vu - Ponyo seems a lot like Mai from Totoro,
the Sea Wizard seems a lot like Miyazaki's other long-nosed European-ish characters in Howl's Moving Castle, and there are many other similarities too numerous to mention. But what do you expect - it's the same artists doing the drawing (and yes, this is hand drawn animation at its best), so you'd expect some stylistic similarities. But there is enough new here to surprise and delight, and if you've never seen a Miyazaki movie before, then it will all be new.
The one thing I dislike is the silly English translation of the theme song at the end, so I greatly appreciate that the disc retains the original Japanese soundtrack, where the original is much more appropriate. The extras on the 2nd disc are nice for Miyazaki fans, but it's the movie itself that is the real value here.
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Steelbook case is a nice touch, however this case, like the others, came with dents and scratches despite being wrapped in plastic.
The discs came perfect, which is the important part.
Played well in my Xbox One X, with Japanese and English audio and captions.
La historia trata de Soske quien es un niño de cinco años que vive tranquilamente cerca del mar con su madre. Un día descubre una pecesita atrapada en una botella. La rescata y la llama Ponyo. Ella usa la magia para transformarse en una niña y pronto se hace inseparable de Soske. Sin embargo, el hechizo provoca un desequilibrio en el mundo que podría destruir a la humanidad. Juntos, Soske y Ponyo se embarcan en una aventura para salvar al mundo y lograr que Ponyo sea humana.
Recomendable para chicos y grandes. Las animaciones son hermosas.