Pretty Good

From my favorite movies..

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Blistering performances.

This is a film I highly recommend audiences check out. They'll likely get a different experience from it than me, but it's one of those films that you should see at one point in your life.Though I really enjoyed it, I liked some parts more than others. My favorite parts were always when the kids were around five, I was less of a fan of the scenes when they got older and the first 5-10 minutes of the film. As for the ending, people will have different reactions from it. I personally felt unsatisfied. This was a story that I didn't want to end.I have a few other criticisms, but they are all nitpicks that did not affect my overall enjoyment. This is a great film that I suggest you give a watch. My experience watching this film was unique, and yours probably will be as well. There is great storytelling, great moments, and great characters. Its a film that I have a hard time forgetting after I've seen it and it left me wanting more. There was definitely a lot of heart and effort put into this and it left me like no other film has done. Parts of it are slow, but this is an experience that you should not be left out of.

I don't often write reviews to films that I watch off unless they are something special. Wolf Children is just that. I'm not going to include any spoilers in here, or go into analysis of the plot. However, let me tell you that this film will move you. Numerous times during my viewing I was taken aback at how emotionally powerful this film was. Countless times throughout I was astounded at the summation of the film's parts. Soundtrack, plot, animation, all of these working in perfect tangent to create something utterly spectacular. Watch this film .

Having married a werewolf, a young Japanese woman struggles to raise her two werewolf children on her own when her husband dies in this unusual spin on the popular horror subgenre. 'Wolf Children' is such an offbeat take, in fact, that it hardly qualifies as horror movie with the human/wolf metamorphosis more of a metaphor for kids growing and changing and ultimately having to make decisions of what they want in life. The animation is spectacular, and so much so that it is doubtful whether the film would have worked half as well as live action. There is an amazing fluidity to the way the son and daughter change with a superb sequence in which the daughter runs off a porch and momentarily disappears, emerging as a wolf - an act that oblivious onlookers mistake for the girl hiding and a dog appearing. The great animation extends to snow, rainfall and flowing water too, all of which looks incredibly realistic. The film loses something though in the decision to have events narrated retrospectively by the daughter as an adult; the narration takes away from the first-hand experience of two children wrestling with their own identity and the narrative itself focuses a lot on the mother when the two children are far more interesting with their dual identities; the girl in particular is absolutely adorable. Never to mind, the film manages to spin an engaging story as it is. Especially remarkable is how well werewolf mythology is intertwined with coming-of-age drama and how werewolves are presented here as normal human beings, far from the monsters of traditional horror lore.

It's another heartwarming animation directed by Mamoru Hosoda, who is famous for "Summer Wars" and "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time."I tend to choose a film based on its trailer and rating on IMDb or other film sites, so this film is also no exception: I thought it would be a heartwarming human drama depicting wolf children. However, this is more than just a wolf children's story, assumed that wolf children might be trouble living their life along with human.It's a story about a mother and her children, and independence of their parent. The story focuses on how the mother struggles with raising her half-wolf children without their father, and the children choosing their life as either a wolf or a human through adolescence.Although it describes how the mother got to know the wolf man and her financial background such as where her money comes from without job, it's not so important to the story. It shows how hard child rearing is, yet how enjoyable and proud it is as a mother to see children grow- up. I realize again that a mother is strong.One of the striking scenes was that Yuki cries a lot in a car because she can't keep a promise to her mother, and lets her appear as a wolf in front of a boy at school. Going to school has a profound effect on Yuki as a human, so she apologizes to her mother. The mother never scolds Yuki and Ame. I was touched by her attitude that she accepts anything from her children, and she tries so hard in order to bring up them.This film was awarded an Academy Award for the best animation. I like the film deserves the award. I recommend this film to girls, boys, mothers, and people who are struggling in their life.