Comments on: Studio Ghibli Countdown: ‘Tales From Earthsea’

By: Renard N. Bansale

Renard N. Bansale — Tue, 02 May 2017 06:01:00 +0000

Having seen the film for the first time last year, I remain ASTONISHED at how atrocious and miscalculated Tales From Earthsea is. From the start, it destroys our ability to relate to Arren by having him kill his own father—a practically irredeemable dilemma for our protagonist.

By: Rachel Wagner

Rachel Wagner — Tue, 02 May 2017 01:03:00 +0000

I agree. People are way too hard on this film. Sure it has some problems in the narrative but enough compelling characters and beautiful animation to entertain me.

By: Haley Gilbertson

Haley Gilbertson — Tue, 02 May 2017 00:02:00 +0000

Haven’t seen this film yet but heard a ton of great things and hope to see this one soon from all the good I see in this article :))))

By: Jordan Briskin

Jordan Briskin — Mon, 01 May 2017 18:30:00 +0000

I have to agree, this film was something of a disappointment. However, it was a real treat for me to hear Mariska Hargitay provide one of the voices in the English dub- even if the role of her character in EARTHSEA wasn’t very far removed from that of Olivia Benson on LAW & ORDER: SVU.

By: Phoenix Wright

Phoenix Wright — Mon, 01 May 2017 18:03:00 +0000

I saw this for the first time a couple of years ago and watched it for the second time a couple of days ago. I honestly couldn’t remember anything about it except for three things. 1 The bad guy had a strange, creepy design. 2 There was a dragon at the end. 3 I didn’t like it very much. Upon rewatching it, I really enjoyed the first two thirds of the movie, but its downfall was the mediocre ending. It was like the whole movie was building up to some epic ending but it just had a generic bad guy fight scene and was over. Also the ending just didn’t make too much sense and introduced new questions rather than answering all the questions i had from the first half of the movie. (I still don’t really understand anything about the dragon) I’d say its worth watching, but just don’t go into it expecting something amazing