Porco Rosso

A Miyazaki. About a jaded pig who is a legendary sea-plane pilot bounty hunter. And has an awful lot in common with Humphrey Bogart's character in Casablanca. With a supporting cast of bumbling pirates, a beautiful, faintly melancholy childhood friend, a preternaturally gifted, cute-as-all-get-go younger girl, and an array of others odds and sorts of the endearingly grotesque variety. Whimsy, spectacle, humour. What more is there to say, really? Don't get me wrong - I'm still not lined up with the ranks of the anime-lovers. But this was pretty good nonetheless.