A ★★★½ review of Porco Rosso (1992)

Among Miyazaki's most glorious achievements in animation, particularly the dogfights, and the shimmer above the world sequence stands with his best. Rest of the story's sort of a muddled occasional Casablanca/To Have and Have Not mashup mixed in with what I believe to be an attempt at feminist messaging; it's ham-fisted whatever it is, pun very much intended. Anyway its charms outweigh its disenchantments; likely I'd like it a bit better on a second viewing now that I know the movie isn't going to the extremely gross place it constantly seemed to hint it might go. Anagram is "Coors Spoor."