Monday, June 06, 2005

Howl's Moving Castle

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (2004) - June 6, 2005
A typically creative and engaging film from Hayao Miyazaki, who is without a doubt one of the best animation directors around. About a young girl who is cursed with the body of an old woman, and her adventures with a magician. The film is set in some kind of odd fantasy world, and is almost always compelling just on a visual level. It is, however, slightly overlong, and it lags a bit towards the end. But aside from that it was quite good. Even the dubbing was well done, though I still would have preferred to watch the original version with subtitles. ***

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