...I've seen a little mid-profile advertising for it a couple of months back but it didn't seem to show anywhere around where I live. Did it flop, or did they just not bother to push it over here?
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Thanks mistersmith. I was just curious. I thought it would have, but you never know with Disney, I mean look what they did with Spirited Away in the USA. They'll get a great film and let it slip for no good reason.
What prompted this enquiry was that I remembered that Mister Magoo film from a few years back and wondered if the same thing had happened. With that film I saw adverts and reviews for it in the national press yet never actually saw it playing anywhere. A few months later I read in a magazine that the only reason it opened in the UK was because Disney were contractually obliged to do so. Apparently they only ever made 2 prints which limped around Scotland for a few weeks. I thought maybe the same thing had happened with this film.
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I don't know if the Japanese language version ever made it into the cinema over here, but the English language version played at a semi-local UCI cinema for a week about a year ago. I wanted to take my daughter to see it but for various reasons that never happened.
I don't know who distributed the cinema version in this country, though I have been told that the credits included a prominant "Lotto Arts Fund" logo (as does the DVD insert), which just seems a shame. In the USA it got a half hearted "Walt Disney presents..." treatment, in Japan it's the biggest grossing movie ever, in the UK it gets a limited charity supported run. It's a disgrace really.
Incidently, if you have a DVD player (I only got my own 6-7 weeks ago) this one is worth a viewing in it's original language. As wonderfull as the English dub is it does tone down some of the supernatural elements somewhat (probably for the ever sensitive USA audiences). The superb apparently literal translation subtitles do clear-up a few of these points (like what exactly are those tiny houses they drive past a couple of minutes into the film?)
I loved "Spirited Away", it's magical, a real classic. Everyone I've shown it or lent it to has said pretty much the same thing. As you liked it as well I'd really reccomend "Princess Monoloke" by the same writer. It's maybe a little more hard edged (infact it's probably the most borderline PG film I have seen since "Josie and the Pussycats" a couple of years back) but it's still wonderfull. I was going to buy the DVD but went into my local Music Zone and they were doing it on VHS for £2:97 instead! It's one of the better looking/sounding VHS tapes I've seen for a fair while so I'd reccommend it wholeheartedly (even if it is only fullscreen)
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