Princess Mononoke

By Hayao Miyazaki,  Princess Mononoke is the super crazy movie full of spirits, forest gods, and a girl raised by wolves, where can you go wrong?

Okay, so Princess Mononoke starts out when a boy named Ashitaka has to protect his village from a dangerous demon. The demon touches him and leaves a mark on his right arm. The Wise Woman of the village tells him that soon, the mark will kill him all the while causing him great pain and suffering. She also tells him that he has to leave the village and "see the world with eyes unclouded by evil". Also, once he leaves, he can never come back and will be dead to the village forever (this woman is very positive). He leaves to look for the great forest spirit who is supposed to have the ability to heal his arm. During his travels, he comes across a town that creates iron, called Iron Town. The leader of the town is a woman who is destroying the forest simply to get more iron. Ashitaka stays in this town where he meets "the wolf girl" AKA, Princess Mononoke. At first, she hates him, since she hates all humans for what they did to her forest. But soon, she learns to like him and helps him find the the forest spirit and beg him to heal his arm before he dies.

Okay, this movie is great, I love it, one of my favorites. It has a great story line, is exciting, funny, romantic, full of action, and bloody all at the same time. You can't get better than that...I think. The only things that I would say badly about this movie are the blood and the mouth movements for the animals. There is A LOT of blood in this movie. I mean, Ashitaka is an amazing shot with a bow and arrow and decapitates people with a single arrow. He also cuts arms off and gets shot and stuff, so yeah, lots of blood (for a movie rated PG). Secondly, the gods (wolf and boar, there are a few more, but those are the most important) talk. Because they talk, obviously their mouths have to move. But it's sort of poorly done in this movie. Their mouths move like open and shut once or twice for every sentence they say, it's weird. But something you can get used to so it's not so bad. Other than those two things I have no more negative things to say. It's a great movie and one of Hayao Miyazaki's best films, I think. I suggest watching it.