My students have raved about this movie for decades. Decades! I always thought “I’m sure it’s good, but I’m too old to enjoy it.”
It’s wonderful. I’m not sure how a movie that starts with almost twenty minutes of people moving into a house is so charming, but it was absolutely captivating. The animation works so well that I found myself thinking “that girl is really good; I wonder if she made other movies.” Not if the voice actor had done more work- if the animated girl had continued her acting career.
That’s two kid movies in a row that I watched and enjoyed after years of people saying “watch this – you’ll enjoy it.” Maybe it’s time to accept I should finally watch Paddington 2.
Would you like a confusing poster?
All my silly posters can be found here: https://letterboxd.com/dogwelder/list/movies-i-watched-in-2025/
At least, they’ll be there if they don’t get mysteriously pulled.
I think you should watch more studio ghibli stuff since I think all of the studio ghibli movies are classic and good movies that you would enjoy especially Howl’s moving castle and Spirited away. Both have deep meanings like Howl’s moving castle talking about self love and passion and Spirited away talking about self development. I also think you’d enjoy making movie posters for studio ghibli movies because the characters have such cool character designs like Porco’s trench coat and the robots in Castle in the sky. Yeah uh, that all I wanted to say.