I appreciate and enjoy the fantastic Pixar stuff a lot but watching a sweet and very different kind of animation like Ponyo is refreshing. What we get here is a traditional and very creative animated fantasy about a little boy and a magical…fish. No snark, no “buddy” who is supposed to be the funny one, no double entendres and no references to other movies. What made watching this even more enjoyable are my two boys who did not want to see it at first, but ended up watching it twice.
