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    The Secret World of Arrietty

    Movie » The Secret World of Arrietty released on February 17, 2012.

    Film adaptation of 'The Secret World of Arrietty'.

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    Wonderful

    'The Borrowers' series has been adapted to the screen (large and small) several times before, but never very successfully. But Hiromasa Yonebayashi (better known as 'Maro'), a rising star at Studio Ghibli, and the probable successor to Hayao Miyazaki, has done what none of the others could.

    The Secret World of Arrietty is an animated film that has all the wonderment of the great children's fantasy tales like The Wizard of Oz and E.T. combined with the open-ended realism of independent film. It tells the story of Sho, a boy with a heart condition who is sent to the country to rest before a heart operation with a dim prognosis, who befriends a tiny girl named Arrietty, one of a race of 'Borrowers', tiny people that live beneath the floor of the house. But Sho isn't the only one that has discovered the Borrowers, and their friendship seems destined to be short-lived, no matter what Sho's prognosis.

    It also seems that after 50 years, the frequency of quality dubbing is finally becoming more regular. At least the UK English dub of this film is quite well done, and I suspect it has laid the groundwork for the US English version to follow.

    The Secret World of Arrietty ranks right up there with Spirited Away as a modern classic for all ages.

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      Studio Ghibli has an awesome reputation for creating some of the best animated movies in the world, and Arrietty can be counted among them! The miniature world that Arrietty and her family inhabits is amazingly detailed. It makes you wish you could be a miniature person so you could explore everything in a whole new way. The perfect dreamscape to add to your film collection....

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