Ponyo (2009)

What a weird-ass movie.

Fish swims away from home, gets found by a little boy, tastes the boy's blood, eats some ham, and decides to become a girl. For some reason, this causes the moon to get too close to the earth which makes the ocean rise...which means that the boy has to love fish-girl forever so she can become permanently real and the world won't be doomed.

I was not nearly high enough to get on this film's wavelength, but the animation is beautiful and the first section (in which the boy finds then loses his fish) is sweet as only a childish experience of love and loss can be.

B-