Yeah, this is amusing... I saw Millenium Actress at FantAsia 2 years ago (and I wrote that review at AnimeNewsNetwork.com), and, though I didn't give away everything, it's kind of a hard movie to spoil, since there aren't any big plot twists like in Perfect Blue, the previous film by Satoshi Kon (who is just as hard-working a director as Hayao Miyazaki, but who gets none of the glory); the film's more about Kon's love of Japanese cinema throughout the ages. Apparently, Dreamworks agrees with me on that point, since they give away the *entire* story in the "The Story" section of the official site with NARY a spoiler warning. Hmm... they aren't kowtowing to the people with no sense of discretion who click on anything and everything to do with a particular movie and then whine if they see something they didn't want to know? I think I like Dreamworks' new Go Fish label for arthouse circuit films more and more.
By the way, unless Brother Bear is significantly better than I expect it to be (and I'm not remotely as excited about it as I was when I first saw pictures from Lilo & Stitch), I think I may just be rooting for an anime film to win Best Animated Feature at the Oscars next year, even though it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that Finding Nemo will take it all. (I liked Finding Nemo, but it's one of the weaker Pixars... I'll review it a tiny bit whenever I write my big-ass summer movie piece.)
posted by Steve Brandon @ 8:06 AM
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