Mimi H.
Rating:
I wanted to love and adore this movie the way I love and adore my two favourite Studio Ghibli films - Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. 'The Borrowers' is a fantastic story (The 1997 Jim Broadbent version was a childhood favourite) and I knew the intricate miniature worlds had so much potential for the beautifully detailed and rendered animation style that Studio Ghibli does so well. The latter does not disappoint - the movie is beautiful - however the former, the story, is lacking in a coherence and substance that doesn't do justice to the original text or the visuals. The same whimsy and wonder combined with fantastical adventure and complex, colourful characters that we have come to expect, are just not present here - there are elements of it, but the story meanders to its inevitable conclusion without ever really drawing you in for the ride. Maybe I should watch the original Japanese version (I know some things get lost in translation in the english dub), but I cannot imagin
