Great movie

Rating: Null/10 (8 November 1999)

I just saw Princess Mononoke this weekend, and I thought it was a great movie. Granted it was a little long, and Billy Bob Thorton was extremely badly cast as the voice of Jigo, but otherwise it was beautiful. The scenery was breathtaking, and the plot was a breath of fresh air from the movies I've seen lately (except for American Beauty). I've been a fairly adamant anime fan for around 5 years now, and lately I haven't had the time to watch any anime, but this movie reminded me about why I like anime so much. There are no definite evil/good characters, and the drawings are beautiful. I loved all the plot twists and the complexity of all the characters. I didn't think it was the greatest anime movie I'd seen, Akira and Ghost in the Shell I thought were better, but it was pretty good, and since I haven't seen a really good movie in a while, this movie was a relief. I don't understand how anyone (of the reviewers) could think that this movie was meant, in the first place, for kids, and how anyone could think that the faces of Disney characters were better than anime faces. The reviews always refer back to Speed Racer too, and it's pissing me off, because if that's the only anime they've seen, then the people doing the reviews shouldn't even be doing them on any type of anime film. Anime is completely different from Disney style animation, first of all the storylines are more interesting, the good guy doesn't always win, and lastly, the drawings are a lot better. So anyone that expects Disney type animation, and storyline shouldn't. The PG-13 rating is probably the right rating for this movie because of the violence and gore, but also, because the plot is much more deep than many movies.