Goro Miyazaki attempts his first feature film. Tales of Earthsea is slightly odd, in that it contains wizards, dragons and witches. But doesn't have much excitement or magic to it. It's very much a slow story that waddles along. Never has a fantasy world been so lacking in charac...( read more)
Aoi Teshima, Bunta Sugawara, Junichi Okada
A prince sets out on a magical journey and discovers wizards, witches, dragons and self-knowledge.
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August 23, 2009
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April 12, 2009
Not the quality you'd come to expect from Studio Ghibli. Visually stunning but also muted. Magical yet mundane. Emotional yet bland. Intriguing yet boring. You can tell there's a lot of material, backstory, character in the world of Earthsea, but by trying to show too much they s...( read more)
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April 25, 2008
Extremely boring. Takes the worst part of the Earthsea saga and adds some clichés and a pre-90s visual style.
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October 10, 2009
They could have stretched this out over a few movies and actually stuck to the plot, but instead they made up a few things that were completely out of character and blurted out secrets that took whole books to expose. If you haven't read the books it'll make very little sense and...( read more)
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September 25, 2009
better read the book 1st before u see it or else u wont really understand it...
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September 9, 2009
it takes time to develope the story. great story, and brilliant imagery, completely beautiful
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September 7, 2009
Ce long métrage aborde des sujets graves, transposables dans notre société actuel. "Un miroir que l?auteur pointe sur nous et qui, malgré la lenteur du récit et les mystčres dévoilés avec parcimonie, nous envoűte jusqu?ŕ nous pousser au bord de l?introspection." Goro Miyazaki, no...( read more)
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October 31, 2007erm u can watch this movie on youtube if you like. it is in japanese but its better tt way. trust me. im frm singapore too!
you can watch this movie here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQy1KsjNml4
there are 11 parts. tt is the 1st, just click on the links at the side for the others. -
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February 27, 2007This movie is made by the son of Hayao Miyazaki right? Well either way, it looks very good and I hope I could see it :)
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