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Princess Mononoke Actors: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka Director: Hayao Miyazaki Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Format: Color Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Running Time: 134 minutes Studio: Miramax Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2000-07-20 Buy from Amazon |
 "Princess Mononoke: A must see"What an amazing movie with great anime! Princess Mononoke was one of the greatest movies ever and it would have been even better if it hadn't been so violent. Despite the made up creatures, this movie was really realistic. I could see something like this happening in real life; humans fighting amlessly. Yeah, I could see that. Man, I hope that doesn't happen. Well, the creatures in this movie are pretty cool; giant wolves, gods, demons, and battle boars. What a movie! Anyone twelve or older must see this movie.  "WOW"wow... amazing movie...freaky princess...giant boars...lots of blood...and an evil curse taking over the main characters body...shoots the limbs off of soldiers with arrows!!!! A MUST BUY FOR ANY ANIME FAN OVER 12!!!!!! "Watch it more than once."The more you watch this film, the more you will appreciate all it has to offer. I suggest viewing the English version first to get a general idea of the movie. Then watch the film in Japanese with LITERAL English subtitles. To access these language options, you will need to go to the setup menu since they are not directly accessible. Do not use the "hearing impaired" subtitles, since these are for the English dub, not the Japanese original. Differences appear subtle, but are important. For example, a bounty hunter with a commission from the Mikado to kill the Deer God says we are all under a curse in the dubbed version, but in the literal sub, he says the world is cursed. To me this represents the struggle between human progress and nature that is not conveyed in the dub. Finally, reading subtitles forces one to pay more attention to minute details that definitely help to understand the story. Although there are some violent scenes, they are not senseless and perhaps that makes them more appropriate for younger viewers than some of the less graphic violence on TV. One note about the DVD: the special features are a waste of time. The featurette is an interview with the voiceover actors who offer no insight whatsoever into the film. Comments are about a shallow as they come. I give the extra features one star. "Wow i like it"What can i say about this movie hmm. Well. Ilike it cause IT IS GOOD. Cause constant violence has a contrast. Because animation is handdone hard work i respect that. Story is not corny. I consider artwork very original. Sure movie has a fair moments of upclose gore and some gore in the backgound, but many infect a lot of anime use blood. This is one of them, its not ment for kids anywho. Now back to nice parts, movie is very colorfull and generaly has a nice atmosphere. Animation is well done and like i said i like hard handwork true work of art. Not like some movies that abuse 3d with drawing which starts to ba alittle trend nowadays. Story is about a boy who kills some king bore big very big pig. It passes a desease on his hand so he goes of to find a cure before it consumes his brain kind of like cancer only this black thing on his hand will make him visious in a fight in the begginign when he goes to a journey and horsemen atack him his hand goes all messed up and his arrow took one horsemens head of ouch. On his travel he comes toa village and it is attcked by Mononoke girl who is against the vilagge which looks like a factory. Old fashioned nature versus techno i like that. Boy gets tangled in this "ittle"war. thats what basicly happened but there is more to movie than that old search for cure and save the forest morale. rent find out and dont be surpeised when in the beginign you will see an arrow go down in the pigs eye MHAHAHAAH BLOOD!!!just kidding(>_<)  "magical but not memorable"like his other films, miyazaki presents a new and unique story with outstanding visual components. the gods and demons, the spirits and monsters really succeed in capturing one's imagination. but instead of being enchanted and moved...i was scared, and disturbed. one can argue the human imagaination is limitless. but some things just don't make any sense. towards the end, the forest spirit becomes this big blob of a bubble, this greyish, bluish, speckled goo that kills anything it touches. the tree spirits are these mushroom like thingies that seem like they're high on drugs because of their abnormal wide, eyes and smile even when they are dying. one word- C R E E P Y. i dunno maybe you like this kinda anime, maybe you'll understand it. i mean, i got the point, the lesson is clear. but, ehh, think of a ugly boar with thousands of worms coming out of it's nose, eyes, and skin that could infest anybody. in this particular movie, i think the moments of awkwardness, weirdness, and unneccessary violence (cutting of of legs, arms, and heads suddenly) outnumbers the good things. i wouldn't watch it again. kudos to the scenery, music, and the lush,beautiful forest scenes. otherwise, watch spirited away a few more times instead. |
