Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780788834028
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788834029
Label: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.1FrenchOriginal LanguageUnknownJapaneseOriginal LanguageUnknownEnglishSubtitledJapaneseDubbedUnknown
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
MPN: DISD25348D
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 22, 2005
Running Time: 94 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1992

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
The adventures of a 1930s bush pilot who just happens to look like a humanoid pig. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 02/22/2005 Run time: 93 minutes Rating: Pg

Amazon.com:
Porco Rosso (The Crimson Pig, 1992) ranks as Hayao Miyazaki's oddest film: a bittersweet period adventure about a dashing pilot who has somehow been turned into a pig. Miyazaki once said, "Initially, it was supposed to be a 45-minute film for tired businessmen to watch on long airplane flights... Why kids love it is a mystery to me." The early 1930s setting enabled Miyazaki to focus on the old airplanes he loves, and the film boasts complex and extremely effective aerial stunts and dogfights. In the new English dub from Disney, Michael Keaton as Porco delivers lines like "All middle-aged men are pigs" with appropriate cynicism, but his voice may be too familiar for some Miyazaki fans. Susan Egan makes a curiously distant Gina, the thrice-widowed hotel owner bound to Porco by years of friendship; Kimberly Williams is more effective as the irrepressible young engineer Fio. Porco Rosso may be an odd film, but Miyazaki's directorial imagination never flags. (Rated PG: violence, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon




Rating: - Miyazaki shines
It is difficult to describe Porco Rosso. It's so different from the rest of Miyazaki's movies. There's no overt environmental theme being rammed down your throat. This is just a great story told well and by a master storyteller. The animation is fantastic, the visuals are superb and this movie has some of the most evicative music I have heard in a long time. This is a must-see movie.

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Rating: - Walks the fine line between fantasy and realism
My favorite Ghibli film by far, Porco Rosso is unique among the other works by the studio in achieving the same sense of magic and wonderment while being set firmly in the real world. There are other enjoyable works set in reality such as My Neighbor the Yamadas or I can Hear the Sea, but the charm in Porco Rosso is grander, at the same time more subtle.

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Rating: - Another solid Miyazaki flick.
Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki, 1992)

In between his two monolithic environmentalist efforts, Nausicaa and Princess Mononoke, Miyazaki enjoyed his greatest artistic success as a filmmaker, in my opinion. (Cue legions of Spirited Away fans who disagree.) Not only his best picture, Kiki's Delivery Service, but My Neighbor Totoro and Porco Rosso were also produced during this time. That's a trifecta of which any director could be proud.

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Rating: - FABULOUS
This is another of Miyazaki's fabulous animated films. Porco is a pilot who has been cursed to look like a pig, but that doesn't stop him from being a pilot or a great character in this movie.

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Rating: - Didn't do much for me...
Let me preface this review by saying that I love most all of Miyazaki's films, including Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Spirited Away, and The Cat Returns (though this one's not technically his). For some reason, Porco Rosso just didn't do it for me. It's difficult to point out objectively exactly why...maybe it was the ridiculous villians (they were funny though), or maybe it was the fact that I just couldn't really care about any of the ... Read More

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