03 Dec 2017 00:10:10
So I've finally gotten around to watching Kiki's Delivery Service, and I have to say, what a film! Some absolutely beautiful animation, a brilliant soundtrack and a fantastically heartwarming story. I had high hopes because it was Studio Ghibli, and I have to say it didn't disappoint.

As an aside, what are people's favourite Studio Ghibli films or animated films in general?

1.) 04 Dec 2017
04 Dec 2017 12:58:52
Ghibli is Japanese, right?

I read how good people rate particularly Spirited Away, but haven't watch it yet. It does look a bit scary though, the characters. I'm sure my kids won't like them.

I tried reading them the book Where The Wild Things Are, they hid the book after that.

2.) 05 Dec 2017
05 Dec 2017 15:37:46
Yeah, Ghibli is Japanese.

Spirited Away is perhaps my favourite animated film of all time. I used to watch it as a kid and I can confirm that it did give me a couple of nightmares (even now I find it quite eerie). However, I would highly recommend both you and your kids watch it because of just how brilliant the film is. The animation is typically beautiful, the music is fantastic and it's quite an enchanting film. Think Alice in Wonderland meets Wizard of Oz but set in a mystical town in Japan.

To be fair though, most of the great animated films are quite scary, or have some properly terrifying elements. Classic Disney had Dumbo getting drunk, the Evil Queen in Snow White and Paradise Island in Pinocchio. Coraline (a stop-motion animation) is one of the creepiest films I've ever seen and there are some scenes that make my skin crawl. So really, Spirited Away is not that scary compared to other animated films haha.

3.) 06 Dec 2017
06 Dec 2017 03:02:00
Yeah Coraline. Almost everything in it are creepy. And since it's stop motion, the movement of the characters add more towards it.

For me, the best is Ratatouille. The story was quite philosophical (I think this is the best word to describe it), which is I think quite rare in animation films.