Movie Review

I actually have several movies to review so that's pretty much what today will have.


Laputa: Castle in the Sky

This is another Hayao Miyazaki film. As with all of his movies I have seen this one doesn't disappoint visually. The story is kind of an odd one that flows along pretty easily with the beautiful animation. Sadly the ending is kind of bizarre and left me feeling like part of the movie was missing. The official synopsis of the movie says "Pazu rescues an unconscious girl descending from the night sky with a glowing pendant around her neck. He helps the girl, Sheeta, to escape from the air pirates and the military who are obsessed with Laputa, a legendary kingdom on a floating island in the sky with which Sheeta is suspected of being connected. - that pretty much sums it up.

I don't like this movie nearly as well as his other works. This would have to be my least favorite of Miyazaki's films. Although the little people have asked to watch this movie several times, they tend to not watch it all the way through as they do with Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke. The upside is that this movie has absolutly no swear words or capitations. Not that the other movies did but Princess Mononoke did have the memorable phrase "Smells like super donkey piss" which is not something you really want a 4 year old repeating.

It's a good movie, just not as good as his others.