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  Review by Dorsey ★★ 1

  Fantastic Fest #9

  I too have seen Princess Mononoke.

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  Review by pluto ★ 4

  Princess Mononoke but the theme is “what if imperialism is okay, actually? Sometimes… if it happens to other people.”

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★½ 2

  very nice to look at, the world was cool and the characters solid but we’re gonna need to get hayao miyazaki back in the writers room asap because this could’ve been so much better please come back to us sir we need you 🙏

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  Review by One Less Helper

  I mean… it looks pretty… I will give it that.

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  Review by Nick ★★★★ 4

  This film has the most strikingly beautiful visuals I’ve seen all year in an animated film. I’ll also go as far as to say the score was perfect. I literally fell in love with the score.

  So why only four stars? The first and final acts were exciting and engaging. The characters and relationships were fun, cute, and authentic. Unfortunately, this film is thirty minutes too long. There’s a lot of time in the middle of the film that genuinely feels like nothing is happening and it does start to drag a bit. I also found a few key story elements, personally, a bit hard to follow.

  As a whole, I really liked this one and I’m super glad I…

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  Review by Mario ★★★★

  Princess Mononoke wishes.
  Animated Movies Ranked
  7.5/10

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  Review by NECC_ ★★★½

  The Deer King has a beautiful animation and score, great voice acting and some interesting lore. But it also has too many subplots, overcomplicated politics and some pacing issues. Not bad nor good, probably more appealing to anime fans.

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  Review by Jackson Fulcher ★★★

  I sat two seats away from two anime nerds who complained about people preferring Subs, woke politics being forced into MCU/DC for an agenda, and then once the movie finished, said “I liked it the first time when it was called Avatar.”

  No idea if they meant the Cameron movie or the Nickelodeon show…either way fuck em.

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  Review by Martin Kostenzer 🎞️🎃 ★★★½ 9

  🖼️ Das Animierte CommunityWochenende ✍🏻
  28.4-01.05.2023
  by: "Coach" Lennart Goebel
  MoeMents Community-Themen-Sammlung

  The Deer King ist ein Anime-Film von Masashi Ando und Masayuki Miyaji, der mich in vielen Aspekten an Studio Ghiblis Meisterwerk „Prinzessin Mononoke“ erinnert. Und wenn man sich den Werdegang der beiden Regisseure anschaut, ist klar, woher die Parallelen kommen. Beide kommen aus Hayao Miyazaki Meisterschmiede und Ersterer war nicht nur bei Filmen wie „Your Name“, „Paprika“ oder „Tokyo Godfather“ Additional Director, sondern eben auch bei „Prinzessin Mononoke“.

  Und auch wenn die Macher von The Deer King scheinbar bei den Besten gelernt haben, erreicht ihr Film dann doch nicht ganz die Qualität ihrer großen Vorbilder.
  Dafür ist die Story zu unfokussiert, wirkt etwas überladen und ist dabei aber…

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  Review by Josh Larsen ★★★★

  One of those anime fantasies so richly envisioned that you can get lost in every frame, The Deer King is based on a series of novels by Nahoko Uehashi. Directors Masashi Ando and Masayuki Miyahi—who between them bring experience working on the likes of Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Your Name, and Weathering With You—give The Deer King an animated aesthetic that is at once intimate (recurring POV shots that fade out as eyelids close) and vast (an unseen emperor establishes his presence with giant balloons painted to look like eyeballs, which ominously loom against the horizon). The central figure is Van (voiced by Shinichi Tsutsumi), an enslaved miner who escapes his captors along with a small, orphaned girl (Hisui Kimura).…

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  Review by YI T ★★½

  Made by two former leading staff of Studio Ghibli, this certainly inherits some of Ghibli's aesthetics -- but none of its magic.

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  Review by Ollie Driver ★★★

  "the cure is-" we know, you've been showing us for half an hour