Advantages: Voice acting, charming, family film, solid soundtrack and score and colourful characters. Disadvantages: Not many special features, film's conclusion might confuse people.
...~Information~ It's not the first time a video game has been adapted to a film, and it won't be the last either. Based on the commercially successful Professor Layton game series for the DS, it's bound to have the odd puzzle here and there. People enjo ...
Advantages: Great animation that remains faithful to the game. Enjoyable, clever and funny. Disadvantages: None
Professor Layton has been solving puzzles ever since Professor Layton and the Curious Village first hit the Nintendo DS in 2008. Three years on and this tea-loving gentleman has racked his logical brain in six games so far. The game play has been hugely s ...
Advantages: A deeply emotional and brutally mature look at survival, life and war... Disadvantages: ...which makes the film very depressing
..."September 21, 1945… that was the night I died."
With that single sentence begins Grave of the Fireflies, quite possibly the most beautiful film I have ever seen. Movies about human suffering during wars and poor circumstances of life have been made ma ...
Advantages: Beautifully evocative, quietly devastating portrayal of the consequences of war. Disadvantages: Minimal.
It's easy to write off anime as something apart from "serious" filmmaking, or see it as a way of dumbing down and jollying up the realities of its subjects - Studio Ghibli have spent the last quarter-century, though, proving wrong this supposition, and Gr ...
Advantages: Powerful film, intricate, spot-on voice actors, fitting music, human Disadvantages: A depressing film
...A review of the original Japanese language version of Grave of the Fireflies with English subtitles.
When Grave of the Fireflies first appeared in the theaters, such was the miserable nature of this animation that it turned away it's intended children ...
