Robert Seeberger wrote: >Has anyone seen Howls Moving Castle yet? We rented it last weekend. It was, as usual, an amazing visual treat filled with memorable characters. Miyazaki's movies should be required watching, especially for young girls as his heroines tend to be plucky young women who take of things themselves.
I will say that, as someone whose seen most of his movies, you can get a slight sense of deja vu watching Howl, since he likes to hit certain themes repeatedly and it appears that he hires the same guy to do his movies' scores every time. >Avatar: The Last Airbender is excellent considering its target >audience. I watched the season 2 premier last night with my son. Friday night has become as unlikely a TV Night at my house as I'd ever have thought. My whole family loves Avatar. I especially like how they have generally managed to avoid making their characters into some of the stock cliches you might expect. For example, Sokka could have been just dopy comic relief, and while my kids enjoy how he is often the butt of the sight gags, he's not a useless clown, which is where I think many animators would go. Avatar certainly seems to be a labor of love, and as long as it remians profitable for Nick, hopefully they won't tinker with it. It's good to have a "transitional" cartoon from the kiddie stuff to more mature works, I think. Jim _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
