Review: 'The Secret World of Arrietty' G
This adaptation of the children's book, 'The Borrowers' was done by the studio Ghibi that brought 'Howls Moving Castle' and many other Japanese classics. Disney dubbed and distributed it and redid voice-overs, but it seems a faithful version of the Japanese version. (Not reviewed though). The idea of pixie like people living in the walls has been around since Peter Pan, the Smurfs, and more recently, The Littles, and later Stewart Little. In this version, a sickly boy goes to live with his aunts in the country awaiting heart surgery, where he meets a mischievous tiny person living under the floor. Arietty is a little girl borrower who with her father is learning to go on quests to hunt for food when she accidentally is spotted and this forces her parents to seek shelter elsewhere, but one of the aunts (actually the maid) is demented and is out to find their hiding place. The animation and visuals are dazzling as usual, and the faces look like those in Spirited Away a bit, another of the other movies studio Ghibi did. This was a 2010 movie now finally released ion the US. Other characters include a fiesty fat gray spotted cat and an Indian like Borrower named Spiller. The movie was called The Borrower Areitty in Japan.
Review by Adam Browne
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