My wife and I just could not get into it. We love studio Ghibli films and even though this is not one, it got enough praise to be compared to one. There were just many moments throughout the film where we thought …”Is this supposed to make us like the film?”. Starting with the mother, who is hateful and harsh to her husband throughout the film. We thought she was being playfully sarcastic or rude like many couples can be but it was not the case and she seemed to genuinely be nasty towards him for helping around the house. Then the main character is a spoiled kid who throws temper tantrums constantly but never receives any discipline. He hits his parents and tries to hit the baby often with objects but is never disciplined for it, instead he just gets to run off and play imagination. I don’t know, it just did not make sense to us and felt like watching nothing but bad characters get their way.