

It just might be Studio Ghibli's simplest it's certainly one of the renowned Japanese animation studio's most accessible. Rich and breathtaking as its animation is, wondrous and enchanting as its all-at-once intimately familiar world may be, director Hiromasa Yonebayashi and executive producer/co-writer Hayao Miyazaki's The Secret World of Arrietty isn't a profound or complicated film by any means. Studio Ghibli's latest is a secret worth sharing. The Secret World of Arrietty Blu-ray Review

Starring: Mirai Shida, Will Arnett, David Henrie, Carol Burnett, Amy Poehler, Moisés Arias Arrietty and Sho work together to try and protect the Borrowers' way of life.įor more about The Secret World of Arrietty and the The Secret World of Arrietty Blu-ray release, see the The Secret World of Arrietty Blu-ray Review published by Kenneth Brown on where this Blu-ray release scored 4.0 out of 5. As Sho and Arrietty's relationship develops, human interference endangers the Borrowers' lives. However, Arrietty and Sho meet, breaking the rule that humans must not know about the Borrowers' existence. A 14-year-old Borrower named Arrietty strives to prove herself by helping her father gather materials that her family needs from Sho's new home. Sho moves into his great aunt's house and soon discovers the presence of tiny people, the Borrowers, living there. The Secret World of Arrietty Blu-ray delivers stunningly beautiful video and superb audio in this excellent Blu-ray release Like many children in Miyazaki's films, the sickly Shawn is able to see things that adults seem to miss-namely the tiny people, maybe 3 inches tall, who live under the floorboards. The movie-a more linear, less fantastical Miyazaki film than past projects-begins with the arrival of 12-year-old Shawn (voice of David Henrie) to his aunt's country home to rest his ailing heart. Now, Arrietty has been translated, dubbed by an American cast, and distributed stateside by Walt Disney Pictures. Released in Japan in 2010, it was the year's top grossing film, seen by more than 12 million viewers, and won Animation of the Year award. But it was not until 2008 that he revisited the idea, wrote the script and handed it to a first-time director at Miyazaki's legendary Studio Ghibli. for Oscar-winner Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo) first thought of animating Mary Norton's 1952 story The Borrowers. Forty years ago, acclaimed Japanese animator and director Hayao Miyazaki (best known in the U.S. The movie, too, has an interesting story Arrietty is the American translation of a Japanese film adapted from an English book. This message is clear: At any moment, unnoticed in our human hustle and bustle, life is telling thousands of stories. Cats, crows, and the scampering bugs who gently touch each other's antennae have their own vignettes, suggesting full lives that the camera could follow if it so chose. This colorful, layered world promises a story under every leaf and life behind every wall. The rich pen-and-ink animation is full of depth and essence. The Secret World of Arrietty is a celebration of the vibrant life surging all around us-a declaration of the countless stories being told all at once.
