“The Secret World Of Arrietty” is currently available for sale or rental at a video store near you.Hello again, bloggers! Chani here once more! I am on a roll as of late it seems, doesn’t it? ^_^ That’s as true- to-life for kids as for anyone of any age. The film balances risk and fright with its characters’ striving for friendship and understanding. And the fate of the tiny Borrowers family remains in suspense. We don’t know if Arrietty will return from dueling dangerously with harm in the garden. We don’t know if Shawn will recover his health. “The Secret World Of Arrietty,” like many Studio Ghibli films, demonstrates the joys of childhood wonder and childhood discovery, but does so by keeping its roots in adventure and risk. Like many of his previous movies, “Arrietty” features a strong, determined female protagonist a fat, mewling cat and a rubber-faced, thick-toothed villain, in this case Hara (voiced by Kirin Kiki and Carol Burnett). Some Miyazaki visual traditions also push the film along. Every detail, from a leaf that Arrietty plucks for an umbrella against a rainstorm to the sparkling dollhouse in Shawn’s room, which the Borrowers may visit but must never “borrow” from, holds within it many finer details still. Hayao Miyazaki himself supervised the film, and the results bear his stamp of meticulousness. Other effective contrasts include Homily’s hysteria versus Pod’s pragmatism, and the reflectiveness of Aunt Jessica versus the suspicion and hostility of Hara. He keeps action and suspense flowing smoothly and emphasizes the contrast between Arrietty’s physical derring-do and Shawn’s feebleness. But Arrietty and Shawn are both lonely, both looking for friends, and not beholden to old codes.Īrrietty’s director is 39 year-old Hiromasa Yonebayashi, the youngest director to ever helm a Studio Ghibli theatrical release. “Beans,” as Borrowers call big people (short for “human beans”) are dangerous, and need to be avoided at all costs. The risks she takes scare her excitable mother (Shinobu Otake or Amy Poehler) half to death, and even her taciturn but proud father (Tomokazu Miura or Will Arnett) sometimes worries for her safety.Įventually, the two families will have contact, although this is forbidden under the Borrower’s tradition. Voiced by Mirai Shida in Japanese and in English by singer/actress Bridgit Mendler - who also contributes a song to the English-language soundtrack, Arrietty is full of energy and thirsty for adventure. The other family living in the house is a trio of Borrowers: The father, Pod the mother, Homily and their teenage daughter Arrietty. His parents are divorced, his mother is away on business, and his only two steady companions are his aunt, Sadako Maki (Aunt Jessica in English dub), and a loud, busybody housekeeper named Haru (Hara in English). Here, a young boy named Shō - or Shawn as he’s called in the Disney-produced English-language dub - has come to rest before a crucial operation that will either cure him or kill him. The film opens in one such house, located in the Japanese countryside. They sneak out at night when the regular humans are asleep to “borrow” things they need to survive. In these books, the “Borrowers” are tiny humans that live secretly inside the houses of regular-sized people. “Arrietty” takes its inspiration from a series of children’s books known as “The Borowers,” written by English author Mary Norton between 19. Its latest movie, “The Secret World Of Arrietty,” continues its winning streak, delivering one of the most impressive family-friendly movies in recent years. Studio Ghibli, founded in 1985 by anime directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, quickly built a reputation as one of the most outstanding Japanese animation studios.
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