Shawn (voiced by David Henrie) wants to help, and Arrietty wants to make contact. She sneaks outside (Miyazaki’s love of nature), tempts the evil ravens who wouldn’t mind gobbling her up as a snack – and is spied by a sickly human boy. She only knows her family, can only hope that there are other Borrowers, still surviving elsewhere. Those humans and their curiosity are nothing but trouble for Borrowers.Īrrietty (voiced by Bridgit Mendler of TV’s “Good Luck Charlie” and “Wizards of Waverly Place”) is a 13-year-old straining at the limits of her world. “Borrowers take only what they need,” and once they’ve been seen, it’s time to move. Mary Norton’s oft-filmed, 60-year-old novel is about the miniature people who live in the walls and below the floorboards of old houses, creatures who “borrow” what they need from the “human beans.” Every shopping trip is an expedition – nabbing one cube of sugar that could last them months, a cracker than can be crushed to make Borrower bread. Perhaps that is why it lacks his sense of whimsy, that little sprinkling of Miyazaki magic that the Japanese director has given his best work over the decades. The new anime version of “The Borrowers,” titled “The Secret World of Arrietty” by screenwriter and “supervisor” Hayao Miyazaki, has the fascination with household “spirits,” the same lovely color palette and attention to detail for which his films are famous.īut Miyazaki, director of “Ponyo,” “Spirited Away” and “My Neighbor Totoro,” didn’t direct this Studio Ghibli film.
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