| The Japanese region 2 DVD for Ponyo will be released on July 3. There will be an expensive "special edition" with lots of extras, and a much less expensive English subtitled edition. There is also a Blu-Ray release of the "making of", but no actual Blu-Ray release of the movie, AFAIK. |
dbaranyiApr 2, 2009 7:55 PM
| *sigh* So no English release yet...dammit... |
| can't wait! ;D |
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| I just finished watching the R2 DVD of "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea", Studio Ghibli DVD VWDZ 8126, 101 minutes. With the movie DVD came a second DVD with a number of information features, making-of videos, ads and so on. There was also a very nice post card-sized booklet with it that contains a number of pages of stills from the movie as well as a number of pages of stickers with character stills from the movie. (There's no way that I'll be peeling those stickers!) BTW - there are little "Magic Kingdom" symbol-images subtly placed in various locations in the booklet and on the DVDs and packaging. The quality of the DVD is spectacular. The Blu-Ray version must be even more spectacular. The English subtitles for the movie are sometimes a bit quirky. Sometimes it's just a matter of decision on how to say something, other times, such as for the lyrics of the ending song, the translators just seemed to have missed what the Japanese lyrics were actually saying. But it's really no loss for me, and the eventual North American release will likely have fresh subs to go along with the English dialog. This is such a lyrically beautiful movie. It's the sort of film where I want to drag strangers off the street and sit them down in front of it. The voice acting is wonderful and all of the characters are great. (I have "evil dreams" of helping Lisa feel "less lonely" when her husband is off fishing… LOL) This was well worth the buy and the wait! |
| The North American release is scheduled for October, and it comes out in theaters in August (next month!), so we won't have to wait too long. I really like the R2 DVD, though. I hope Disney does a good job with the release in theaters and on DVD. |
 Join the Obscure-in-the-West Mangaka Club! |
| just saw a commercial for the theater release of it, i hope it does ok at the box office or atleast in the media reviews, disney does a great job at handling the english voice casting throughout all miyazaki films, but the marketing is TERRIBLE basically ull only see ads in stores etc in major cities, and this is the first time i saw a commercial of the theater release and its just about to come out? no matter how good the movie may be, noones gonna watch it if they dont hear about it |
| Cant wait for this Friday its going to be great mrbushido said: just saw a commercial for the theater release of it, i hope it does ok at the box office or atleast in the media reviews, disney does a great job at handling the english voice casting throughout all miyazaki films, but the marketing is TERRIBLE basically ull only see ads in stores etc in major cities, and this is the first time i saw a commercial of the theater release and its just about to come out? no matter how good the movie may be, noones gonna watch it if they dont hear about it Yea thats true I havent seen ONE commercial for this movie |
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