I’m not going to say that, back when I reviewed When Marnie Was There, I called it when I said that Studio Ghibli shutting down just wasn’t
going to happen… not yet, at any rate. And it seems that that wound up being
accurate, between Miyazaki himself announcing that he was working on one last film
and the film I’m talking about today. However, the need to voice that is
outweighed by the basic gratitude I have that one of the true titans of the
industry is still going. With companies like nWave and Splash Entertainment
showing us in this year alone that they were capable of producing absolute
garbage to our screens, that thought is invaluable to someone who compulsively
watches as many films as I do. So, with that out of the way, how does this
Ghibli and French animation collaboration turn out?
