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Discuss and recommend animated movies!
You know, sometimes I feel like Hollywood has forgotten how to make a good kid's film for everyone to enjoy. Remember the Harry Potter movies? Remember Star Wars? Remember the Chronicles of Narnia movies? A lot of memorable fun and compelling films, some of which are even taught in film school, made to give kids a childhood that I can still remember and watch to this day as an adult. Nowadays we see films like the Secret Life of Pets 2, Angry Birds Movie 2 and the Addams Family which rely too much on pop cultural references to get parents thinking that they're kids are into this kind of stuff. They are okay films but they are not the outstanding films to be remembered by waves of kids for years to come. That's where the animated movie "Mary and the Witch's Flower" comes in which features the main character named Mary Smith, a girl with no magical powers who discovers a magical flower that leads her to discover a school of witchcraft. Now this film is animated by Ponoc Studio which consists of former Studio Ghibli members but you can tell that this is definitely the studio's first film and yet it's still quite a magical and memorable ride that will leave an impression on kids for years to come.
To be honest though, the story is fairly simple and straightforward but it is made all the more memorable and exciting thanks to the wonderfully and peculiarly designed characters and creatures, these beautifully designed locations that look like something out of a painting, a kind of enchanting music that most people rarely hear that gives the film a sense of mystery and wonder and the animation just flows wonderfully from the obvious like magic spells to animals moving about to little details like wind blowing against the trees to someone's hair flowing with that famous Ghibli essence, much of this wonderful animation can happen on the flat ground or flying high into the skies and you can first see all what I am talking about in the opening scene of a girl escaping a castle.
With that being said. Can't wait for what the studio delivers in the years to come.
You know, sometimes I feel like Hollywood has forgotten how to make a good kid's film for everyone to enjoy. Remember the Harry Potter movies? Remember Star Wars? Remember the Chronicles of Narnia movies? A lot of memorable fun and compelling films, some of which are even taught in film school, made to give kids a childhood that I can still remember and watch to this day as an adult. Nowadays we see films like the Secret Life of Pets 2, Angry Birds Movie 2 and the Addams Family which rely too much on pop cultural references to get parents thinking that they're kids are into this kind of stuff. They are okay films but they are not the outstanding films to be remembered by waves of kids for years to come. That's where the animated movie "Mary and the Witch's Flower" comes in which features the main character named Mary Smith, a girl with no magical powers who discovers a magical flower that leads her to discover a school of witchcraft. Now this film is animated by Ponoc Studio which consists of former Studio Ghibli members but you can tell that this is definitely the studio's first film and yet it's still quite a magical and memorable ride that will leave an impression on kids for years to come.
To be honest though, the story is fairly simple and straightforward but it is made all the more memorable and exciting thanks to the wonderfully and peculiarly designed characters and creatures, these beautifully designed locations that look like something out of a painting, a kind of enchanting music that most people rarely hear that gives the film a sense of mystery and wonder and the animation just flows wonderfully from the obvious like magic spells to animals moving about to little details like wind blowing against the trees to someone's hair flowing with that famous Ghibli essence, much of this wonderful animation can happen on the flat ground or flying high into the skies and you can first see all what I am talking about in the opening scene of a girl escaping a castle.
With that being said. Can't wait for what the studio delivers in the years to come.
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