[movie] Ponyo
For the record : I love Miyazaki ( even if I'm not positive how to spell the name =D ). This is the guy who gave us Kiki's Delivery Service and My Neighbor Totoro and Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away and Howls Moving Castle and probably something I'm forgetting. The man makes beautiful, fun movies.
The man should also be some sort of environmental spokesman, but that's another story.
Ponyo is a strange sort of adaptation of The Little Mermaid, about a goldfish(?) who is the daughter of a formerly-human-wizard-dude and some sort of water spirity lady. One day she tries to go exploring and gets caught in a glass jar, then rescued by a five year old boy. She falls in love with the boy ( and he with her -- he thinks she's pretty, and feeds her ham, and promises to protect her always ), and the usual happens -- daddy gets angry, goldfish turns into a girl, giant tsunami made of fish (... don't ask me! It's pretty though! )...
Anyway. It's cute. It's good for kids. As long as you ignore the fact that these five year old kids are a) left alone in a house during a tsunami [ mom leaves them to check on the seniors ] b) allowed to play with matches [ they have a candle-powered boat that's actually pretty cool ] c) allowed to go sailing around in post tsunami-land, and everyone they meet just kinda waves and tells them to have fun.
Whatever. It's really a kids movie, and though adults can probably sit through it ( my theater was almost all adults ), it's just... sweet. Cute. Bubbly. Filled with the siblings of Disney stars. Whatever. Go watch it, so they continue to release more of these sorts of movies in the US .