The greatest animation ever.

Rating: 10/10 (6 February 2002)

This movies far surpasses everything Disney has ever made. The intricately woven story (based on Otomo's best selling 6 book series) has been an inspiration of everything form future movies and stories to video games. I admit that the early sound version, ie. the first English dub, was pretty poor, but the new 2001 version is excellent.
As far as technical aspects: the animation is flawless (2 years of frame by frame animation cells), the colors are vivid and life-like, and, even though it was made in 1988, it still has an aura of the present inherent within it. The musical score is probably one of the best I've ever heard. It is the kind of music that you can listen to without the necessity of context (that is you can appreciate the music without ever seeing the movie).
This is just one of those movies you can watch, say "Wow", and then watch again.