Friday, May 12, 2017

The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)

Plot:  A family of four-inch-tall people reside in a normal size home and  borrow simple items to live. Things change when the daughter is discovered by the house's owners.

Based on the award winning Children's book "The Borrowers" - Secret World is charming, yet simple tale of a little people living in a world of Giants.  The hand drawn animation is wonderful and the highlight of the film is the imaginative, "small world" that the family live in.  For example, getting some sugar from the Kitchen is an all-night exercise that requires complex planning and the scaling of enormous tables and chairs.  The voice acting is quite good too. Its not perfect, the plot is a little thin, and the film never lives up to the great promise of the first 15 minutes. Its probably the most "Disney" of all the  Gihbli movies I seen.  Its good but not great.

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