I want to live inside Hayao Miyazaki's head. The guy creates such wonderful, bizarre, intriguing fictional worlds. There's no way the audience is supposed to be able to take this strange story seriously, yet here I am, thinking about it quite seriously indeed. This story is actually very clever, and the ending is nothing short of ingenious.

"A pig's gotta fly"

One of Miyazaki's oddest works, based on the idiosyncratic premise that seaplanes were once a dominant factor in transportation. His hero this time is an ace pilot who has mutated into a pig. And so it goes. PORCO ROSSO is unusually plot-driven for Miyazaki, and it lacks the transcendent beauty of his best work (one haunting limbo sequence aside), but it's a good deal of fun, with enjoyable characters, a richly realized fantastical world, and of course, gorgeous animation.

Nice story, but not my favourite of Miyazaki.

In a great many ways does Porco Rosso seem a marvellous antidote to the current onslaught of interchangeable superhero flicks. Hayao Miyazaki's animated curiosity is comparatively rich with zesty pop-cultural resourcefulness and endearing moral sensitivity. This pilot pig tale isn't nearly as wondrous as Spirited Away but it has creativity in spades.

One of Miyazaki's best - perhaps its the freewheeling sense of adventure to the whole thing, or the romantic flourishes, or more simply that it is one of his funnest and funniest films. The ending is open, though a sly wink or two at the audience would hint otherwise and so our hearts can only imagine the most beautiful and swooningly romantic possibilities. Firo's challenging of Porco's occasionally piggish (pun...) views about women is perfectly on the money yet never too forcefully handled.

Feo, one of the all time best Miyazaki characters. 'nuff said.

Miyazaki drops a very boring bollock.

Perhaps Miyazaki's finest work to date, this is more of a grown up's story as opposed to the likes of Spirited Away and Totoro. Still it maintains the same witty sense of humor especially in its caricature of an american pilot hoping to become a film star.

Better a pig than a fascist.