Spencer attended the University of Houston for four years. His anime character voices tend to be either for timid, shy, or weak characters, or for eccentric and comical ones. He has also performed voice acting for radio, especially commercials. He is known for his roles in ADV Films dubs of Neon Genesis Evangelion as Shinji Ikari, Martian Successor Nadesico as Akito Tenkawa, and Excel Saga as Gojo Shioji. Family films don't come much better than this.Charles Forrest "Spike" Spencer (born December 21, 1968) is an American voice actor and columnist best known for dubbing Japanese anime films. For adults, it has a lot of substance and makes for an extremely enjoyable hundred minutes. Little kids don't need to understand every little detail of the plot, they just need something beautiful to look at and this is it. It isn't as confusing as I had expected, but it does have some elements of, "So what is going on?" I would expect kids to be infatuated with this movie though, purely because of the spectacle. The film has enormous heart which is shown through the love of Sosuke and Ponyo. The American version has a superb voice cast including Cate Blanchett, Liam Neeson, Matt Damon and Tina Fey. He names it Ponyo and spends the say with it only to lose it at sea and that's when the real magic starts. The story starts with a five year old boy, Sosuke, finding a gold fish in the ocean. And that's saying a lot because visually this is a masterpiece. The film does what a lot of animated movies don't, in that it is as engrossing plot wise as it is visually. It is like watching another, better world. It sucks you in and you can't take your eyes off it. It kind of makes you feel like your five years old again. It's a beautiful and overall delightful movie that is just a joy to watch. Ponyo, simply put, is one of the best animated films I have seen. "Welcome To A World Where Anything Is Possible." Sosuke: Mom! Ponyo came back, and she's a little girl now! The only problem I had with this movie is that though it is visually spectacular, it could've been MORE entertaining but other then that, "Ponyo" is one of those animated movies that any child and adult will willingly invest their attention to. Great move to get professional A-list actors to substitute for the original voice actors - I wouldn't even know if the Japanese version or American is better. The transition from the Japanese voice actors to the American? Almost flawless. There's creepy imagery and strange concepts going on, but "Ponyo" is entertaining throughout. wow, everything is created from the imaginative vision and mind of a child. The journey these characters take are tweaked to appeal to children but "Ponyo". See, the thing about Pixar is how they take stories that have occurred to adults and place them upon cute animals, children, or children-friendly protagonists. It's overflowing with very diverse, strange, and unique imaginative settings, effects, and characters. If "Ponyo" were a well of imagination, it would be shooting up water all over the place. Hayao Miyazaki is arguably on the same caliber as Pixar. The studio manages to attract children and adults with its great storytelling, gorgeous and fluid animation, and memorable characters. For American animated movies, the forefront of this genre is obviously Pixar.
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