We wanted to watch "The Secret World of Arietty" (2010). Somehow this was included in a "Studio Ghibli" set. This is NOT! This is a 2001 movie called "Princess Arete". As previous reviews have stated, the animation is very basic (not at all like the Miyazaki films like Ponyo, Kiki's Delivery Service, etc...) and the story, if you can call it that, drags on and doesn't really do anything to draw the viewer in and make them care about the characters. We started fast forwarding through it after 40 minutes, hoping to see some action and something to engage us. We were severely disappointed. I finally looked it up and discovered we were not watching the movie we had intended to watch. I think some of the reviews who brag about how amazing it is are really reviews for Arietty, not this movie.
Review of Princess Arete
