Review of Pom Poko

Pom Poko (1994)
4/10
way too long
26 December 2006
If you were to cut an hour of this movie you might have something a little bit entertaining, although even then I don't think you'd have anything memorable. But at its full, seemingly endless length this movie just meanders on endlessly.

The movie aims to be a sort of great myth history, but it never manages to feel like more than a slight tale blown up too big. It is full of extraneous detail that makes sense in terms of creating a mythology but not in terms of making an interesting movie. And the characters are just plain uninteresting, and for the most part difficult to distinguish from one another.

Some of the transformations are entertaining, but even then the movie rarely rises above the ordinary.
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