Audience reviews
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Achi88
"Something something fascism"
I can't help but notice that a lot of people who love this anime tend to quote a certain line about fascism that's uttered in it. I get the strange feeling that some people conflate current real world events with historical events, and use media aimed at children to re-confirm their beliefs. That's cringe.
Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I was disappointed by this movie. Studio Ghibli-films are nearly always held in a very high regard by most people, but every time I put one on it's like I've just spun the chamber of a revolver in a Russian roulette-game, there's a solid chance that the movie is going to be very good, even a masterpiece, but there's also the risk that it's going to be a beautifully drawn dud that just leaves me bored at the end.…
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I seriously hope this isn't the sign of Ghibli movies not being for me.
Slice of life, with fantasy elements, and a whimsical comfort no other films can give you. It's an appeal that globally touches people's souls. A world where pirates take care of children, where bullets don't bust eardrums, where the highest form of conflict comes one hour after the film began. I don't have a problem against it, and I get the appeal so many people have over movies like it. It feels like a comfortable blanket that covers your emotions at any point in your life, but it's not for me. I don't care for the characters, I don't care for the plot, the vibes don't appeal to me, and the movie itself felt like a boring chore to finish. It might be my mood, my need to experience something worth it, but this movi…
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Easily the most underrated Miyazaki film. Simultaneously a nostalgic adventure film and a meditation on the ways in which war creates wounds in some of us that can sometimes never truly heal. An absolute love letter to animation of both the east and the west and an utter delight to watch. Porco himself is pure Humphrey Bogart, brooding and full of a wry wit. Fio is a classic Miyazaki girl: strongheaded, noble, ambitious, and fiercely independent. And for the perfect cherry on top, Porco Rosso contains what may be Joe Hisaishi's best soundtrack to date; a beautiful combination of Gershwin-esque orchestral jazz and Old Hollywood film scores. Better than Howl's Moving Castle and even Princess Mononoke and I will gladly die on that hill.
Story/Characters: 9/10
Animation: 10/10
Music: 10/10
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Studio Ghibli does not fail to impress me. What a enjoyable movie.
Story - 10/10
The story is very innovative and still manages to keep to its history as we are told that Italy is in fact fascist and has the secret police. The story hooked me from the very start and didn't let go until the end.
Art - 8/10
As always the art and animation in these movies is fantastic. It is very pleasing to the eye to witness the scenery as well as character design. Sound - 7/10
Sound was good, nice and beautiful music to satisfy the viewers. I really enjoyed the gun noises and the sounds for the action sequences.
Character - 10/10
Porco was very well designed and had an interesting background as well as his fantastic and funny sayings through out the movie. "Id rather be a pig than a Fascist" . The y…
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One of my favorite emotional reactions is that of smiling all the way through something only to then feel a hole in my chest. Alongside Chihiro, this is perhaps Miyazaki's most bittersweet title, but unlike the former, there is no danger in Porco Rosso. It's wholly lighthearted and whimsical, and yet manages to touch hearts, evoking unexpected melancholy and with a final sequence capable of devastating most viewers. Marco himself is such a lovable pig and protagonist he causes instant longing once credits roll. Much like when I remember old folks who used to hang around, never for long, it's only happy memories that arise. I wish they'd show up again, but for the most part, they're gone for good. To be able to bring about such sentiment in spite of its silly exterior displays an enormous s…
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Listen up kids.
This right here is what you call a good fucking "anime" movie. Yes i know, those exist, right? Way back, millennia ago, before dinosaurs become extinct and before anime movies weren't only a weeabo-loser and pedophilia pander, good movies, heck even stupid movies reigned supreme.
Now you might be asking yourself, hey but this is a Miyazaki flick, doesn't he always have some pre-teen girl as the lead in his movies so that pedophiles from all around the globe can cream their unwashed jeans. Well yes, and actually no, this one is an exception hence why Im writing a review for Porco Rosso and Porco Rosso only.
This movie delivers one of the finest main characters in anime cinema history, even tho is he merely a swine, he is actually Clint Eastwood in his patented ice-cold ass…
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A film by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, Porco Rosso is a story set in the 1930’s not long after World War I. Its setting is focused in the “Adriatic Sea,” which is presumably the Mediterranean Sea based on the current events of the release time, the conflict in Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe.
The story is about Marco Rosso, and due to certain circumstances is a pig. Rosso is a former Italian fighter pilot and retired to a small island in the Adriatic Sea as a bounty hunter. The pirates in the area and Rosso during their off time spend it on a small resort island run by a woman named Gina, an old friend of Rosso. However, the pirates are fed up with the pig and get an American pilot named Curtis to take “care” of him. Due to events that occur from there, Curtis and Rosso become rivals i…
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TL;DR version at the end.
Lets talk about pigs, and American, and how those two correlate with each other.
Story (7/10) :
While story of PR is really a simple one, it's about friendship, love, companionship and other usual stuff like that, it's the presentation of story that shines. Whole thing is pieced together to a beautiful, relaxed, funny and even child plot, you will get what I'm talking about from first few minutes when pig is fighting against bad potato nose people. The flow of it feels natural, there are no real pacing problems or dull moment, every time story slows down there is few comedic moments to keep viewer interesting.
Art (8/10) :
Art style is as always with Ghibli works colorful, detailed and a bit westernized, if you looking for usual Chinese cartoon big tits style t…
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Porco Rosso is one out of Hayao Miyazaki's (and musically speaking, Joe Hisaishi's) many masterpieces. In Hisaishi's usual fashion, the score masterfully sets the mood of the setting and the characters. Along with the music, the playful sense of humor exhibited in the script and the characters' interactions brought me at ease. In the English dubbed version, Porco Rosso and Fio Piccolo are voiced by Michael Keaton and Kimberly Williams-Paisley, respectively. Both do a great job of portraying Porco's tough and cunning personality and Fio's innocent yet determined nature.
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Right off the bat, Hayao Miyazaki is amazing. And of all the amazing films he has done, this one is among the best.
As most Studio Ghibli films are, the art is good. It felt like a cartoon still, which I like in an anime, if it's too realistic the enjoyment level goes way down.
It had a story that made me wonder why it hasn't got a manga tie-in. Also it had scenes of much excitement and beauty.
Overall, it's a Miyazaki masterpiece worthy of a manga tie-in. It contained humour, excitement and action.
An anime worth watching. If you haven't seen it buy it online right now!
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"Porco Rosso" is a striking rarity in the Miyazaki career, and one that will probably require a bigger effort from the fans to understand. It plays with different themes than his other works; for instance, there is not an interest on developing an enviromental message, or at depicting a major conflict involving humanity and nature. The story is closer to the coming-of-age intimism of "Spirited away", "My neighbor Totoro" or -his script- "Whisper of the heart", yet it takes a radically different focus. In fact, if I had to point a similarity among his films, the one that fits better to me is "Lupin III: The castle of Cagliostro".
On the other hand it is unique because of the world it builds around. Any fans of classic Hollywood will be pleased at the amount of homages that are spread throu…
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"Piuttosto che diventare un fascista meglio essere un maiale."
(I'd rather be a pig than a fascist [?])
This was the sentance that made me think that Porco Rosso is the best animated movie i've ever seen so far.
In a nutshell, the story of Porco Rosso is about Marco Pagot, a hydroplane pilot who was transformed by a mysterious spell into a manlike, anthropomorphous pig, and for this reason he is known as Porco Rosso.
And I'll just say this, because the less you know of the movie and the more beautiful it will be when you see it, if you decide to do.
And now, time for my opinion: THIS IS AMAZING. 11/10. All the films from the Studio Ghibli were great and fascinating, but Porco Rosso, in addition to having that, it has one of the most charismatic character ever (in my opinion).
Because…
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art: All the women look the same. As in they all have the same face. This is a problem shared by all Miyazaki films and not just this one. At least Porco Rosso has a unique face. The art isn't very detailed, and the characters have only 1 level of shading (base color + a light shadow). So it's quite a simplistic art design, so I expected good animation.
Animation: I didn't go through this movie frame by frame but the airplane movements were pretty smooth. The choppiness was not noticeable except for a few scenes. However I didn't notice any particularly fluid scenes either, like the fluidity of VHD:Bloodlust. So probably very little if any single framing in this movie. Overall it's better than TV quality, but it's not particularly smooth.
Choreography: There was only one fight in this…
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i'll start off by saying that its not an anime i would recommend watching again. i personally liked the action parts of it, but the emotional part of the movie was pretty boring/uneventfull compared to the action. there are those movies that have emotions mixed in with action, well this one keeps them seperate and makes it boring.
other than that everything is exceptional compared to other anime, but as i said, i didn't really like it that much
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Porco Rosso is one of my all-time favorites, when it comes to anime movies, and especially when it comes to studio Ghibli works.
I'm a big fan of Miyazaki, and I've pretty much enjoyed every one of his works, from Totoro to Mononoke hime.
But this, unlike most of his works, this movie doesn't share a message about environment and humans trying to destroy it. Hence, this movie focuses on a young man, who became a pig, after certain events(something like prince Ashitaka from Mononoke).
I loved this story mostly because it's somewhat realistic, and the story doesn't fade away into fantasy that much.
This movie was like a chronicle of something that really happened, something that I found much more closer to us humans, then it was with Spirited Away, for example.
Story:
As I said before,…
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"I'd rather be a pig than a fascist"
Miyazaki movies can broadly fall in 2 or 3 categories; some of them are driven by their uncanny and bizarre plot (princess mononoke, spirited away etc). And then there are some where the direction almost completely overshadows the plot-line. Like Totoro, Porco Rosso falls in the latter category. From the opening scene to ending, this movie is all about direction, direction and direction.
The movie, set in the 1930’s, starts on a deserted island which acts as a hideout for the famous war-veteran turned bounty hunter ace pilot known as porco rosso (scarlet pig) who, we soon learn, has been afflicted by a curse which turned him into a pig. Just knowing this much can give you a false impression that this movie, like most miyazaki movies, has a lot to do…
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Overview
Porco Rosso is a Frog Prince story taken to spectacularly romantic heights. The proverbial frog is in this case an ace pilot of a pig, Marco, who turns his back on fascist 1930`s Italy to be a pirate chasing bounty hunter. The film explores how he came to be the pacifist he is through his pirate hunting adventures and two distinct love stories that he gets involved in. With love portrayed both as the innocent arrow of cupid, and also the evolution of a deep relationship over time, set in pre-WWII Italy, centered around a grandiose imagining of the exotic and heart pounding life style of a sea pilot, Porco Rosso is so romantic that some adventure-loving sheltered girl somewhere in the world is probably swooning and gushing over it this very instant.
Story & Characters
Like most Mi…
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A watchable movie, although nothing really to talk a lot about.
The flight aspect was interesting, but there was a lack of depth in the story. The best thing going for it was the director/directing. The light-heartedness gave the movie a nice calm aspect. Some of the scene/backgrounds were amazing for not real life.
I enjoyed the build up of the "fight" but it ended up disappointing, the movie's ending was also disappointing. They summed up the story or ending in about 10 seconds.
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Often Miyazaki takes his work with a mixture of drama and whimsy, but Porco Rosso is a wonderful look at Miyazaki's funny bone and how the Walt Disney of the anime world can get a few good laughs while still being the same Miyazaki we know and love.
Porco Rosso is the story of a 1930s Italian pilot who is inexplicably also a pig. To further things, this premise, outside of a few intentionally bad puns, is played completely straight. What really surprised and delighted me about the story is how little attention is called to why Porco is a pig, an absolute departure from other Miyazaki lore. Rather, the story is kept simple focusing on Porco's grudge with an American pilot, Curtiss, and how he plans to restore his honor after being shot down at a most inopportune time. The story is fairly l…
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Porco Rosso, in my mind it is one of Miyazaki's finest works. It doesn't contain many of the many annoying story points that plague much of his other work.
Story: The Red Pig, or The Scarlet Pig, whichever sub you choose. I found the story quite entertaining, deep on alot of levels. If you want it to be a kid's story, then it's a kid's story that you don't have to think twice about. But if you really look at it, during WWII and the alliances and what exactly Porco Rosso is doing then you really add another layer to this animation. I found the love story in this also quite endearing, when it comes to alot of Miyazaki's work the romance never really goes anywhere and is quite childish. The romance in this is also slightly childish but it really works. The story never seems forced and goes…
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