Hi I'm Dranzerstorm
You may remember me as a regular contestant on the caption battle contest.
Welcome to Retro Retrospective, my world dedicated to the old guard of the Otaku world; expect some reviews of the old & obscure, and in-depth geeky knowledge with the occasional top ten and I now have a logo.

Little info about me
Well I'm British and I'm in to all things animated and nostalgia.
I've grown up with every cartoon going and have watched hundreds of anime.
Oh and to answer a question I was asked once, no I don't wear glasses in real life, I would wear Loke's sunglasses though.

Arrietty Review

I ain't done with you yet Ghibli.

The story is from the point of view of Sho who explains the story of the Borrowers from a week during summer at his mother's childhood home.
The Borrowers are tiny people who live in the floorboards of houses and as the name suggests, borrow things from humans but their society is a closely guarded secret so any form of discovery and they move on to another place, this version could be seen as just another house they visit. Being British and the story being British written, this is the weakest version of the Borrowers, mostly because I expected more from such an idea in anime format be it film or TV series, yet what I got was a version so watered down it lost it's whimsy and became boring.
Dubbing is better but lacking still.
Final Verdict: This film lacks whimsy, imagination and adventure, it's just so boring to sit through that reading the Borrowers would actually be easier.