Fathom Events-Princess Mononoke

My second Fathom feature and the first time I went to see a rerelease of an older film, the Fathom screening of Princess Mononoke is part of a year long showing of Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki films. Set during the Muromachi period in Japan, the film deals with a village prince struck by a curse  from the gods and sets out to stop a war between mortals destroying the forrest and the gods and other creatures that inhabit it. One of the reasons I went to see Mononoke was because even though I'm not into anime, I once saw Spirited Away and fell in love with Miyazaki's style. The animation and visuals are all breathtaking and the various different colors are just so amazing and beautiful. While the English dub has some amazing talent behind it, like Billy Crudup and Claire Danes, and a lot of the dialogue is well done, some of the things the characters say either has weird deliveries or feels unneeded. As an animated film the fact that it's over two hours long and has a lot of very violent moments that fit the story is something many American animated films should look at and not be afraid to try. Although, while the fight and battle scenes are well done, there are odd moments where people loose their limbs way too easily and at times without them reacting as much to it. All in all, this Ghibli entry was good, beautiful, and had a good environmental message to it but not on par with Spirited.