Arrietty

Arrietty, known as The Borrower Arrietty in Japan, and The Secret World of Arrietty in North America, is a 2010 drama, contemporary fantasy, coming of age Japanese anime film. It was directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, written by Keiko Niwa and Hayao Miyazaki, musically composed by Cecile Corbel, cinematography by Atsushi Okui, edited by Keiko Kadokawa, Rie Matsubara, Hiromi Sasaki, and Takeshi Seyama, distributed by Toho, produced by Toshio Suzuki and Studio Ghibli, and starred Mirai Shida, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Tom Holland, Shinobu Otake, Keiko Takeshita, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Tomokazu Miura, and Kirin Kiki. It's based on a novel called The Borrowers which was written by Mary Norton.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Excellent animation.
 * 2) This is one of the few Studio Ghibli films to be directed by someone other than the standard ones, those being Hayao Miyazaki and Ise Takahata, (although Miyazaki did help writing the screenplay).
 * 3) Appealing character designs.
 * 4) A fun, cute story where a guy and this tiny girl meet and form a bond and a connection with one another.  Their on screen connection is surprisingly good, despite their obvious differences.
 * 5) Great voice acting.
 * 6) The environments in the movie are worth special mention, they're very colorful, vibrant, and beautiful.  The colors just pop out at you, and it makes you, especially in the garden, and it just makes you feel like it's a real place.
 * 7) Good soundtrack.
 * 8) The world of The Borrowers is well fleshed out.  The first time when Arrietty goes on her first Borrowing trip with her father is great for this.  You get to see things from their persepctive, how they see the world, the lifestyle they live, how they go gather their supplies, and everything like that.

The Only Bad Quality

 * 1) Disney's English dub of the movie, while not horrible, definitely wasn't amazing. While all of the female characters were very expressive, all of the male characters had very low voices and just sounded bored and uninterested with the whole thing. The British-English dub recorded by StudioCanal in the UK is more or less an improvement.

Reception
Arrietty, The Borrower Arrietty, or The Secret World of Arrietty, has a 94% critic rating and a 85% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a 3.7/5 on Letterboxd, a 7.6/10 on the International Movie Database (IMDB), a 80.57% community approval rating on Kitsu, and a 4/5 on AnimePlanet.

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