Ponyo is a goldfish?
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hurleygirl-1 — 15 years ago(May 11, 2010 10:31 AM)
I think she was just like her sisters, just more developed. After Fujimoto reclaims her, he says something about exposing her to the magic at to young an age so perhaps she is more developed and more human because of the magic.
I'll leave my love between the stars -
machtyn — 15 years ago(February 01, 2011 06:45 AM)
True, but to a 5 year old, a every fish is a gold fish or every horse, donkey, mule is a horse, etc.
Sure this doesn't hold up, because he starts calling out the names of the prehistoric fish, and even a 5 year-old living on the sea will know some classes of fish; but, perhaps, never having seen a goldfish (being a fresh water fish), it was the best his 5 year-old mind could come up with. -
potatopuncherpreacher — 15 years ago(May 29, 2010 08:12 AM)
agreed, ponyo had no resemblance to a goldfish whatsoever-apart from the fact that she bore a redish-orange colour. if i saw something like that my first impression would be that of a miniatured swimming dress with a strange humanoid face perched disproportionately on the top-and then run away, screaming 'the apocalypse has arrived!!!!!'.
the movies actors have starred in should be put in alphabetical, instead of chronological order. -
NotEven_TheRain — 15 years ago(January 24, 2011 07:02 PM)
I thought Ponyo was maybe older, that's why she was different than her sisters. As for her being a goldfish, remember the boy was the one who called her that. To a five-year-old, maybe she looked like a goldfish.
Ann - "Is this the elevator?"
Joe - "Eh, this is my ROOM." -
dethmaul-1 — 15 years ago(March 17, 2011 11:19 PM)
Well, I always justified it as - everything else is 'cartoony' and 'generalized'. The humans aren't perfect humans. So the little fishy is just a 'snapshot' of a goldfish. I could see her being a goldfish.
In the end, Okonkwo threw the Cat. -
Fawlty-3 — 14 years ago(July 07, 2011 08:01 PM)
I HATED the way this "goldfish" looked, and that up until the old lady freaked out, everyone apparently thought that it looked like a normal fish.
But clearly, with this old ladies reaction, it was NOT a normal fish, and wasn't meant to be.
This was not a great movie in general, but I think it could have been a LOT better if Ponyo (and her sisters) had actually looked like fish instead of like weird human embryos in dresses. -
xenopharb — 14 years ago(August 29, 2011 12:16 AM)
Ponyo was not a goldfish; she was a sea maiden.
This film is a Miyazaki spin on The Little Mermaid tale. I do not see people complaining that Ariel, in Disney's Little Mermaid, did not look like a fish.
Ponyo is a sweet tale. Taking it too seriously sort of ruins the magic.