Congratulations to Studio Ghibli and everybody else that worked on it. For context, here are the full list of nominees:
- The Boy and the Heron
- Suzume
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Elemental
- Wish
See the linked article for more discussion of award nominations and such.
I watched it a few days ago and it was… Alright. Maybe I’m just getting older but it didn’t hit nearly the same as past Ghibli movies. It definitely wasn’t bad, but so much weird random stuff kept happening, it was hard to keep up and understand what was going on. I’ll have to give it another try in the future.
Sometimes it just doesn’t connect with you. I have similar thoughts about Suzume. It has phenomenal reviews, but I didn’t get the hype other than it being visually stunning. I wrote out more of my thoughts here on Suzume a while back.