the secret world of arrietty full movie english dub 12

THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY FULL MOVIE ENGLISH DUB 12 TV

The housekeeper Haru (Carol Burnett), who wants to set exterminators on the Borrowers, is sort of her evil twin. Pod, the taciturn father, communicates mostly in grunts, and Homily, the mother, becomes hysterical at the drop of a hat. The relationship between Shawn and Arrietty is nuanced and lovely, but the other characters seem stylized in a peculiarly Japanese way that will be off-putting for some American viewers. The cognitive dissonance only sets in – and probably only for some – when the narrative focus is on the Beans and the Borrowers themselves. On this level the movie is a work of art that will amply reward any viewer.

From Arrietty’s perspective we see mundane objects so close up that their textures become ravishing to the eye. The film is at its most rewarding when it contemplates the exquisite detail of the Borrowers’ living spaces or the dreamy, Impressionistic colors of the surrounding landscape. He befriends the Borrower daughter Arrietty (Bridgit Mendler), but her parents, Pod (Will Arnett) and Homily (Amy Poehler), panic when they find out that she has been spotted by “Beans” (human beings) and start looking for other Borrower encampments so that they can move someplace safer. (His parents are too busy working to give him the attention that he needs: the one bit of contemporary Japanese social commentary that the filmmakers saw fit to slip into the script.) The gentle Shawn begins to encounter tiny people called Borrowers who live under the floorboards of the house. “Why can’t they make it all so beautiful?” I kept wondering.īased (rather loosely) on the beloved Borrowers novels written in the 1950s by Mary Norton, The Secret World of Arrietty concerns Shawn (voiced by David Henrie), a 12-year-old boy with a heart condition who has been sent to stay with relatives to rest up for surgery in a suburban home surrounded by lovely gardens. So I had some trouble reconciling the minimally drawn, expressionless faces, the big blank eyes and tiny mouths of the humanoid characters with the lush gorgeousness and tactile detail of the background paintings in The Secret World of Arrietty. But my first acquaintance with anime was cheap, cheesy stuff like Astro Boy that my younger siblings used to watch on TV. My gamer son had no problem at all with the anime visual style and enjoyed the film thoroughly. I suspect that the newest Studio Ghibli movie, The Secret World of Arrietty – released in Japan in 2010 but just now hitting the American market in a dubbed version – is going to evoke that same sort of generation gap. “Why aren’t Spirited Away and Ponyo and Howl’s Moving Castle and My Neighbor Totoro in the Top Ten?” “Why is all the stuff from Studio Ghibli so far down the list?” they demanded, aghast.

THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY FULL MOVIE ENGLISH DUB 12 TV

Then there were the kids who, like my teenage son, grew up on GameBoy and watched endless hours of Pokémon TV episodes, or who devour Manga comics and graphic novels. Old fogeys who remember the days when animation was done with millions of hand-painted cells tended to fall into the Disney camp younger folks entranced with the capacity of modern CGI for near-photorealistic perfection tended to prefer Pixar. All of the Top Ten were either Disney or Pixar products, and reader response split interestingly along generational lines. The movie-review-aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes recently released its list of the 50-or-so best animated films of all time.

The secret world of arrietty full movie english dub 12