Review – Porco Rosso

Though this isn’t my favorite Miyazaki movie, it’s still an entertaining piece of work. The setting – an alternate 1930s world where airplanes are the primary mode of transportation and air pirates threaten the skies over the Mediterranean – is a big part of the draw. Fortunately truth and justice are championed by the title character, an ace cursed to have the face of a pig. As usual, the animation is terrific. However, the story has a few slow spots. And it ends abruptly, almost as though the picture was supposed to be longer but they ran out of money. Worth seeing