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    Jacquelyn Gibson (0 KP)

    Bibliophile

    Stay at home mom, currently prego with #2, crafty and obsessed with books and tv shows.

    Last Active: Mar 20, 2018
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    Rebecca (9 KP)

    Simmer, Bookworm

    Sims 4 is my life, I live and breath to play this game. If there is a moment I am not playing this...

    Last Active: Jul 26, 2017
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017) in Movies

May 11, 2018  
Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017)
Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017)
2017 | Adventure, Animation, Fantasy
7
7.8 (16 Ratings)
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A Familiar Tale
If you were a newly-formed Japanese animation studio and somebody said that your first film was good, but not quite up to the standard of Studio Ghibli, you would probably still be quite pleased. Unless you were Studio Ponoc, a newly-formed Japanese animation studio making use of the talents of many Studio Ghibli veterans, with the expressed intention of continuing the Studio Ghibli tradition.

Yet here we are. This is a very good-looking film, with many classic virtues, and a doubtlessly intentional resemblance to the Wizarding World money-making machine - lonely child finds herself transported off to a school for witches, where various adventures awaits. But the animation is sometimes simply very good rather than Ghibli-standard immaculate, the story is rather simplistic, and the characterisation thin. Where Ghibli films are charming, this one is sometimes just a bit twee. It's by no means a bad film, but by positioning itself as 'the Ghibli successor', and copying the Ghibli house style so closely, Studio Ponoc has basically created a set of expectations which - in this film at least - they struggle to meet.
  
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AT (1676 KP) rated Howl's Moving Castle (2004) in Movies

Apr 11, 2019  
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
2004 | Animation
8
8.7 (29 Ratings)
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Howl's Moving Castle is my favorite Studio Ghibli film. It's based off of a novel, which I have yet to read. I should, since I hear it's much more in depth, as most tend to be. I loved the animation of this movie. It's really beautiful, compared to some of the other Studio Ghibli films.
  
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Andrew Koltuniuk (767 KP) rated Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) in Movies

May 2, 2021  
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
1989 | Animation, Fantasy
7
8.3 (28 Ratings)
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Another win for Miyazaki! Set in a different world than most of his other films, this was still a very fun and enjoyable film. Not my favorite Studio Ghibli, but still enjoyable!