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Title: Cheap Interpretation of a Good Story
Review: The original written story had a humorous creative charm to it but Sony, as it has shown a history of doing, uses the quickest and cheapest studio resources to produce a mass appeal product with plastic and stereotypic characterizations & animations, trite dialogue, and factual ineptitude that will take teachers years to undo in visually impressionable young minds. Really Sony, how much effort is there in presenting the story in a way that actually educates - in some very small way. For example, water always will be water & hydrogen & oxygen - that's it. There's no nitrogen, no genetic material. Anyway, it takes "work" for a studio to create a fantasy story that has a magical and, perhaps, believable quality to it. See "Ponyo" or any Hayao Miyazaki movie for a comparison.
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