The Boy and the Heron

The usual Miyazaki features are all present. Grannies, young people, weird fantasy creatures, animals talking, mushroom induced realities splicing each other and a storyline that pretty much is non existent. I find all this stuff incredibly tiring, irritating and wholly boring. If you like Ghibli I just don’t and won’t ever understand you but I’m sure this will live up to all expectations. Watched on Netflix.

The story just didn't intrigue me, and I thought it was gonna be much more emotional. In Spirited Away and Totoro, the world building and universe rules were more straightforward. Here it just felt like everything was random. Well at least you get a few good visuals out of it.

Rating: 85%. In terms of animation this Studio Ghibli movie has some of the best quality. The English voice acting was very good and I was surprised to see such big names attached. it felt like they were going for a similar vibe to Spirited Away, but they still managed to make it creative in its own way. The sound/music sounded wonderful in the film. The story was entertaining but I do think some parts of the plot could have been better. It was also a bit confusing at times. Overall, I still think it's a great film!

A disjointed confusing mess that seemed to pull visual elements from other much beloved movies such as Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away, Howl's, and Nausicaa. ... I'm baffled this came from Ghibli, and cannot recommend it.

So far, the 2nd anime movie winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Success in 2 hours and 4 minutes!!!!!!!!!!! Rated PG-13 for Smoking, Bloody Images and Some Violent Content!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of the most imaginative and wondorous of Ghibli films! I haven't felt this way since watching Inception. Thank you Ghibli, and thank you Miyazaki for a lifetime of imagination - and what a fitting swansong for the great Miyazaki.

It’s a Ghibli movie you know going into the movie that the animation is going to be beautiful. I enjoyed the movie for the most part, but I understand those who are upset with how confusing the movie is. Needless to say, this is a very abstract movie that I am sure I will enjoy more and more on rewatches, but not everyone has the time or patience to do that. This movie throws abstract concept after abstract concept at you with very little room to breathe which does get suffocating at many point throughout the movie. There are many messages and scenes to unfold, but very little time to do so in the manner presented.

A beautiful film that doesn't seem to know what to say. Maybe this is profound for some, but for me, it is a pretty flick with bouncing themes and lovely, though eery music that was enjoyable enough.

Great retirement piece, not his greatest tho.

Great art work, very slow story. It was 2hrs but felt like 3.