Did not impress me

Rating: 1/10 (15 November 2003)

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This movie came highly recommended. The trailer looked interesting, too. However, I didn't like this movie at all. It's too shallow for adults, and for children it's too confusing and long, in my opinion.

The art work is excellent, but the story is, in my opinion, too shallow. But this is a problem I have with all anime (with the only exceptions of "Ghost In The Shell" and "Cowboy Bebop"). But not only was the story too thin but also it depicted a rather depressing line of events: A girl follows her curious parents, who want to explore an old building. They get lured in by ghosts who fill them up with food that turns them into pigs. The girl has to endure all kinds of insults and dangerous situations to free her parents. The girl basically had to suffer for something even her parents didn't do wrong, they just wanted to explore things. The end of this movie made it look like to me that wanting to explore things is generally a bad idea.
People who love anime will still have a good time watching this movie for it's artistic value.