This film should've been in Pokemon's place

Rating: Null/10 (14 December 2000)

Princess Mononoke is an excellent anime film by one of the best animators outside of the United States, Hayao Miyazaki. Although this film is deriative of some of Miyazaki's older works(Nausicca, for example, has a female protagonist and a pro-nature theme), it still is very entertaining, with fluid animation, backgrounds, a capitivating story, interesting characters and so on. The characters are drawn in the typical Miyazaki style, which has remained the same for the last 20 years, ever since Miyazaki made his debut with "Future Boy Conan". This style is closer to traditional anime then "Ghost In The Shell" or "Akira" but it has it's own charm. Unfortunately, this film didn't do too well at the Box office, instead Pikachu and co., which are on the other end of the anime spectrum, got adaquete marketing and became a box office hit, scaring about half the USA away from anime in the process.