Review: THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

Lets get this out of the way; I had been waiting for this film since the day I first heard rumor about it back in 2005. Disney hadn't done a traditionally animated film since 2004s Home on the Range which was awful and after that the studio that started the art form of animation shut its doors and threw out all their machinery, set on only making trendy computer generated films from that point on.

Review: PONYO ON THE CLIFF BY THE SEA

Gake no Ue no Ponyo is the latest export from Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. It came out in July in Japan and I have been trying to find it ever since. This film blew me away.

The story follows a fish who happens to drift to the mainland where she is found by a five year old boy named Sosuke. Sosuke cuts himself and starts to bleed a little while trying to save the fish, but the fish licks the wound and it heals immediately. Sosuke thought it was magic, named the fish Ponyo and promised to protect her. Ponyo's father, who is a human, but has an aversion to land, Fujimoto, comes searching for her. For if she does not get returned soon, the ocean will consume the land. Ponyo ends up being taken back to the sea where she tells Fujimoto that she prefers the name Ponyo and wants to become human.