This film would be suitable for older middle school to high school students due to some mild profanity use that would be problematic for some parents at the elementary level as well as the characters’ alcohol and tobacco use. Porco and Curtis both knock each other out, but Porco rises first from the water to be declared the winner, saving Fio from losing a bet in which she would have to marry Curtis. Curtis wants a rematch, which ends in a draw after hours of battle in the air as well as a final fistfight in the water after both planes are forced to land after running out of ammunition. After his plane is repaired, he returns to the Adriatic Sea area with Fio as an uninvited and almost unwelcome passenger. Despite her youth and Porco’s initial reservation in trusting her with his plane, her skills and enthusiasm win him over. Porco survives the attack and continues with his battered plane to Italy, where he finds that his trusted airplane mechanic only has his seventeen-year-old granddaughter Fio working as an engineer in the shop. On his way to Italy for repairs to his plane, he is shot down by an American pilot, Curtis, who has been paid by the pirate syndicate to get rid of Porco. Porco makes a living bounty hunting the pirates who terrorize the Adriatic Sea. The main character, Porco Rosso, was once human but was turned into a corpulent pig during World War II. Porco Rosso is a mostly light-hearted Japanese anime that seems mainly to recount and relish the era of emerging flight between World War I and World War II. But it is in the air where the true battles are waged. On the ground, the two pilots compete for the affections of the beautiful Gina. When "Porco" - whose face has been transformed into that of a pig by a mysterious spell - infuriates a band of sky pirates with his aerial heroics, the pirates hire Curtis, a rival pilot, to "get rid" of him. Why kids love it is a mystery to me." The early 1930s setting enabled Miyazaki to focus on the old airplanes he loves, and the film boasts complex and extremely effective aerial stunts and dogfights. Miyazaki once said, "Initially, it was supposed to be a 45-minute film for tired businessmen to watch on long airplane flights. Porco Rosso (The Crimson Pig, 1992) ranks as Hayao Miyazaki's oddest film: a bittersweet period adventure about a dashing pilot who has somehow been turned into a pig.