Review of My Beautiful Girl, Mari (2002) by Jayden C — 12 Mar 2006

My first exposure to korean animation. Good!

This review of My Beautiful Girl, Mari (2002) was written by Jayden C on 12 Mar 2006.

My Beautiful Girl, Mari has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Terah M (14) on 21 Jan 2009

The animation was very pretty: dreamy and soft; however, the story itself seemed to fall a little flat for me…

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By Derek Elley (230) for Variety (12,700) on 29 Sep 2005

Softly sensuous from afar, but rather flighty on closer acquaintance, My Beautiful Girl, Mari is an extremely oblique animated feature that…

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By Morgan B (100) on 26 Sep 2007

I really liked this. Mainly because the design is so strange, but it also has some really eerie symbolism that seemed to strike a chord with me…

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By Billie W (80) on 08 Oct 2010

The otherworldly animation was lovely, but the story was less than engaging, though it had its moving moments…

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By Lyndall B (5) on 26 Dec 2008

The animation was absolutely beautiful- a pleasure to see. Where the story is concerned, I think the cat stole the show…

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By Michelle D (429) on 02 Jun 2007

Flawed but nostalgic take on a boy's coming of age and coming to terms with growing up…

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By Trevor R (511) on 27 Jul 2007

I loved it! It was a sweet movie about the innocence of childhood and loyalty to friends, and it had such a surreal, dreamlike state to it…

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By Antti Q (108) on 21 Aug 2010

Dreamy animation about childhood and how we used to live in our own little world back then…

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By Jonny 9 (54) on 25 Dec 2009

Truthfully, I was lost trying to follow this South Korean important but I suspect it didnâ€™t make that much sense in the original…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 04 Oct 2005

Lee Sung-gang's exquisite tale of childhood remembrance and imagination is... a patient fantasy painted in swaths of color…

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