Micro-Reviews: Finding Dory, the Beast and His Boy (no spoilers)

[tuftears]

Finding Dory: a Pixar movie currently out in theaters, centered around Dory, the fish with short term memory issues. It was pretty good, really! I thought the titular Dory's mental handicap was handled fairly and with respect. It got pretty gonzo in storytelling toward the end, straining suspension of disbelief a bit, but it managed to hold together and get to a satisfying end. I'd rate it 7/10.

The Beast And His Boy: a Japanese anime that hearkens to old-school Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki in looks, featuring a young boy who, distraught by the abandonment of his father and the death of his mother, runs away and is adopted by (surprise!) a Beast. He's far from being a stereotypical 'hero' who does no wrong-- honestly he starts out as a brat, but then you wouldn't have much of a story if he was the obedient type, since he wouldn't have run away. Pretty solid IMO, 9/10.

Comments

[rowyn]

I liked The Beast and His Boy. The direction the story took as it neared the end really surprised me. O_O The climactic battle didn't really work for me, though, and I found it overall kind of depressing. :|

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't want to get into spoilers, but I do agree that the battle wasn't well foreshadowed, which is why I took off a point. I think the storyline would breath more easily as a 12-episode TV series.