Beautiful movie, like a fairytale but better!

Rating: 8/10 (8 March 2016)

I really enjoyed this film and would watch it over and over again. Even though the ending left me feeling hollow, and the parents seem to change from the first and last scenes, it is funny and dramatic at the same time. It teaches the importance of work, and the gluttony of humanity -though it is not cynical in any way.- It is a good watch for the animation alone. A magical movie, it feels like a fairytale that was put into the modern world. I would have liked to see it in it's original Japanese because I feel it might have been more whole. Even so, if you want to see a movie by Studio Gibli, this one should be your foot in the door.