His films are dream waltzes, all liquid motion and mysterious turbulences.” “Ponyo isn’t Hayao Miyazaki’s greatest film,” The Washington Post observed, “but his beautiful, quirky fable ...

"Ponyo" Movie Review-- The little Japanese village ... just about everything it can to make Miyazaki's brand of hand-made cartoons as obsolete as hobbyhorses. So, with no small amount of irony ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — Computer animation may have taken control of the big-screen cartoon world ... with his latest hand-crafted tale, “Ponyo.” Miyazaki, whose films include “Princess ...

Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo is strictly a kids film (4-9 years old) and I think they’ll dig it. But adult viewers may end up scratching their heads and think they are stoned – or seriously wish ...

Ponyo nicely portrays the agitation of a wife raising two kids (one of them part-piscine) while her husband’s away; but for long stretches, when Koichi’s life is imperiled by the storm, the ...

When Disney releases "Ponyo" from Hayao Miyazaki, considered a master of animation in his native Japan, the studio hopes to score with an entirely different audience: mainstream U.S. movie fans.

That elemental pull that courses through so much of his cinematic universe is present again in Ponyo, Miyazaki’s 2008 animated take on Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale The Little Mermaid.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- If you're 5 years old, or under the influence of some sort of hallucinogenic drug, "Ponyo" is probably awesome. Clearly, these are the ideal scenarios in which to watch the ...

Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo is a very loose adaptation of The Little Mermaid, and it's more straightforward and kiddie-friendly than such multilayered masterpieces as his Spirited Away. But in some ...

Film Review: ‘Lu Over the Wall’ An ultra-weird grown-up version of the beloved anime 'Ponyo,' Masaaki Yuasa's trippy toon recounts the odd friendship between a boy and a mermaid.