gake no ue no ponyo be a beautifully animate film and a relief from the many heartless soulless cgi movie be make . the pastel and color pencil background be a surprise after sen to chihiro no kamikakushi ( spirit away ) and hauru no ugoku shiro ( howl move castle ) be so similar stylistically . the style work well for the film and be do exceptionally well . the time and effort put in to animate this be greatly appreciate a it give the character so much more life and the detail and care it take make the movie turn out so much well . there be several great scene throughout the movie that have lot of movement and action . the great to me be a scene be ponyo sister transform into massive wave like fish while she run on top of them . the story be simple but fairly well write and play out . the plot stay focus around character relationship and while it wasn not play out as well a in tonari no totoro ( my neighbor totoro ) it be still great . i felt that each character have the an appropriate amount of screen time unlike spirit away which be so jammed with distinctive character that it could have be stretch out into an entire series . ( the radish spirit . there be a another whole movie right there . ) my only real problem with the movie be the end . the way it word in the english version at least make it seem like there go to be some great test give to sōsuke which turn out to be just him promise ponyos mother that he will love ponyo . though put more thought into this lead me to think that translation may not be that accurate to the actual meaning in that the test be the promise and that deep down he really mean it . the movie do seem to end abruptly though . other than that the movie be great and i highly recommend it .