Ponyo
Ponyo (Noah Lindsey Cyrus) is the name of a goldfish with aspirations of changing species so as to be with Sosuke (Frankie Jonas) a five year old boy with a marine background. In this Japanese animee Anglicized by the Disney folks Sosuke’s father is a ship captain so he’s mostly left with his mom and his imagination at his remote seaside hamlet. Ponyo is the progeny of a sea goddess and Fujimoto (Liam Neeson) a human who has turned his back on humanity and who labours at reverting the oceans back millennia so that evolution can start again. Ponyo’s playful curiosity and inherited magic upset Fujimoto’s plan and throw the sea into turmoil putting Sosuke’s family and neighbours in peril and then taking him and Ponyo for a fantastic adventure. Already hugely popular in its native Japan but recast here with the voices of Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin and Betty White, Ponyo is a colourful, imaginative and gentle family journey into the animee art form.