[Kitsunexus]

Just saw Ponyo. I never thought I'd put the words "Miyazaki" and "rush job" together, but that's unfortunately what I was thinking through the whole film.

Don't get me wrong, it has some AMAZING imagery and the dub isn't really that bad (it isn't nearly as good as other Disney Ghibli dubs though) but the story is all over the place pacing wise, some places it drags along, some places it breezes by without a second to piece together what exactly is going on.

My biggest problem with the story is the ending. Everything is resolved, yes, but it ends so suddenly and so anti-climatically that you feel something was cut in the US release (which I don't believe is the case). Everyone in the universe has already complained about the dopey theme song and it's completely unnecessary Autotune-remix so I'm not going to complain about it any more here.

It has it's moments, but IMO Ponyo is nowhere near Miyazaki's other films, his true classics.

I don't regret buying the DVD though, that Toy Story 3 trailer is funny as hell and I CANNOT WAIT to see the movie.