This was original posted over at my podcast's website, Strangers and Aliens . . .
My kids and I are huge fans of Studio Ghibli. I love almost everything that I have seen from them, and my kids adore My Neighbor Totoro and Ponyo. Studio Ghibli is a Japanese animation studio. I would compare the studio to PIXAR, perhaps, and the primary force behind their output over the past decades is one man: animator Hayao Miyazaki. You may be familiar with some of their movies, like the "kid films" Ponyo and My Neighbor Totoro, or the older skewing fantasy movies Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke.When Ponyo hit theaters a few years ago, I hoped to get the kids in to see it but we missed the chance, so we watched it together on video. Not long after, I heard rumblings about a movie based on the classic children's book The Borrowers. For the last year or two, then, I have been waiting for The Borrower Arrietty (it's original title -- Disney changed the title for release here) to come to the States after its release in Japan. My intention: for my kids to see it on the big screen.
We finally got the chance. And it was worth the wait.
We ended up skipping Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 3D in favor of Arrietty, and I am SO glad we did. (Mainly for "pocket-book" reasons. We own that movie and can watch it any time we want, and by "we" I mean my kids.)
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