Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In “Ponyo,” boy meets goldfish. Yes, it’s a love story. From the first moments in which undulating jellyfish make their way across the screen and the score ...

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 ways ...

If you don’t mind semi-ignoring the plot of “Ponyo” — and the movie makes it exceedingly easy to do just that — the latest feature from Japanese animation god Hayao Miyazaki (“Spirited Away,” “Howl’s ...

Within the first ten minutes of watching Hayao Miyazaki’s newest film, ”Ponyo,” audiences can already predict what the story will be about. Fish meets boy, fish turns into girl and reunites with boy.

In the same week that the South African import District 9 gives us a Johannesburg beset by alien invaders, the latest film by animation legend Hayao Miyazaki envisions a small Japanese port town ...

Little colored globules dance in Ponyo's pupils, and the message conveyed is simple: Joy. Funny, how I walked away from Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo" remembering this tiny flourish above all else. It might ...

To watch the image of a young girl burbling with laughter as she runs atop cresting waves in “Ponyo” is to be reminded of how infrequently the movies seem to express joy now, how rarely they sweep us ...

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In the summer of Up‘s CGI codgers and G-Force‘s lethally armed guinea pigs, the brilliantly hand-drawn spectacle of Hayao Miyazaki’s latest effort, Ponyo, sticks out like a sore traditionalist. A ...