Gee...What a fun movie... wish it had made SENSE!

Rating: Null/10 (28 April 2001)

I dont want to be the person who only sees the glass as being half-empty, but all I could think about while watching this movie was "whats the POINT of this load of Nonsense????????????????" I could only see the negatives. For other movies, two hours long may be a reasonably long, but all the while entertaining, length. For this, the fact that just about every scene is so cliche with the reat of the movie dawned on me about halfway through the movie.I didnt like the main character, and I didnt understand why "If the nightwalker is a giant walking thingamabobber that reaks havoc on the world EVERY NIGHT, why isnt the world decimated a few weeks after the beginning of this strange ritual???" I dont think that the almighty god would really be of Forest element, as that is hardly a generalized-enough topic for the ruler of the universe, IF HE TRULY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. A better choice, in my opinion, for a great supreme ruler would be something everything could relate to, such as life, the fabric of the time-space continuum, or perhaps The Force from Star Wars.
Throughout the movie i was pondering who the bad person or conflict of the story was. A thorough search of the data banks and thinking skills of my brain yielded an astonishing *(gasp)* ZERO RESULTS.Was it lady Eboshi, or Jogi(the fat guy after the forest spirit head, i forgot his name), or maybe the Nightwalker, or was it humans in general??? Dont even try to understand what the conflict was, because my mind is a blank. Oh sure, i liked some things, like Yakul, the cute loyal lovable companion of Ashitaka that has everything the Pokemon makers wished they could have gotten from Pikachu, the Devil Rat. I also must admit that the plot got my brain thinking, but only about the things i didnt like from the movie... The point of my rantings: I was just letting out my thoughts that have been building since i saw the movie. Ive read many other user comments, and pesonally do not agree with the praise this movie has recieved. if you're a diehard fan, then forget anything you may have read and ignore me. But I really did not like this movie for reasons I have already stated. That is all. Konechewa =)