I heard about this movie from a good friend,so on the weekend of my birthday I rented it.To be honest I thought it was going to be stupied but boy was I wrong. The animation is great, the story is a wonderful tale of man vs nature. At first it starts out kind of simple, a young man startes out to find out if someone can lift a cures given to him by a demon/god. Then as he travels on and meets princess mononoke it get more complicated and trilling. being an anime fan I didn't ecspecte it to be to childish but never ecpected this. This is a great movie for action seekers. Actuly this movie has somthing for everyone, it has just the right amount of action, comedy, and even a litte romaince but not over doing the perfect mix and noware near childish. There arn't many movies these days for preteens/early teens that don't over do some thing but this movie is perfect. Even boys will like it.(my brother loves it!)