Well, first off, it's important to note that legendary animator/director Hayao Miyazaki did not direct this film, but his protégé Hiromasa Yonebayashi did. Is this similar to previous Studio Ghibli films I've seen? Too much younger and they may be scared by Hara's attempts to capture and/or kill the Borrowers.Ĥ. I'd say the film is good for most kids age 6 and older, and probably quite a few slightly younger ones as well. The story is fairly simple, there is some suspense and a possibly scary bit when Arrietty's mother Homily is captured by Hara, but there are also many funny scenes (some including a cat), and the movie wraps up in an hour and a half. And few kids will fail to be awed by the richness of the film's visuals, which are always interesting and occasionally breathtaking.
We also would all like to think that we'd react as Shawn does when confronted with tiny people who live under the floorboards of our house, even if any sensible person would in reality take pictures of them and contact the National Academy of Sciences or some such organization.
It's easy to identify with Arrietty, who's smart and daring, and who loves her parents (who are the only other Borrowers in her world) more than anything. Saying much more than that would spoil the movie, but suffice to say it's a very good movie for kids, which should give you an idea how it ends. Fortunately, Shawn only wants to help the Borrower family, but the same can't be said of the housemaid Hara, who wants nothing more than to capture them to prove that she wasn't crazy when she claimed to have seen them some time before. As the movie opens, a sick boy named Shawn comes to stay at the house to rest before surgery, and it isn't long before Arrietty, on her first "borrowing" with her father Pod, is seen by Shawn. They live underneath the floorboards of a house, venturing out to "borrow" what they need and trying to avoid being seen by the "beans" (normal-size humans). It's a terrific story, loosely based on Mary Norton's classic novel The Borrowers, about a 14-year-old girl named Arrietty and her parents, who are Borrowers and thus only inches tall. This is a sweet, beautiful and sometimes funny movie, so if that's what you go in expecting I promise you'll be richly rewarded. Yes, if you go in knowing what to expect.
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