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75The Miyazaki legacy is in good hands.
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70An odd little film that aims only to please itself.
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60The set pieces make this well worth watching while director Goro Miyazaki shows he's truly his father's son.
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60The sights and sounds are splendid--a lovingly hand-detailed portside city, a touching musical interlude in a windswept field--though they're largely disconnected from the narrative proper.
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58He does an okay imitation of his father's languidly matter-of-fact dreamscapes, but it's hard to deny that a certain vitality is missing in Tales From Earthsea.
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50This film is too scary for very young children, while older fans are likely to focus on the film not faring well in comparison to the elder Miyazaki's recent work.
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50Feels a little like a science-fiction Sunday school pageant.
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40An artistically arresting yet narratively lame and strangely unfocused cartoon aimed at older children and young adults.
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40It also features deaths by strangulation and immolation as well as a nasty bit with a flying severed limb.Kids may be less put off by all that, though, than by the film's uninspired hand-drawn animation, visual flatness and elongated running time.
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40This dull and humorless production won't reap the same critical support as the work of Miyazaki Senior.
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20Earthsea seems to be a stupendously dull place. It would try the patience of any kid.