A milestone for Japanese cinema

Rating: 10/10 (26 November 2014)

Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky is a true fantasy masterpiece as well as very well done, and very entertaining. The movie tells the story about a boy named Pazu (voiced by James Van Der Beek) who finds a girl named Sheeta (voiced by Anna Paquin)floating down from the sky with some mysterious crystal on her necklace, and then it comes on to a race against time to find the legendary Laputa (aka the castle in the sky) against pirates and foreign agents in order to get to it to prove that it is real before any one else does. The animation for this film is just excellent, as well as the writing, acting, and the story-line to the film. Miyazki directs this film with adventurous passion, and excellence that he fulfills his effort to direct the best animated Japanese film since Grave of the Fireflies (1988). There is also a great supporting voice cast which includes Oscar winner Cloris Leachman as the leader of the pirates Dola, and the original Luke Skywalker Mark Hamill as Muska one of the foreign agents who wants to use the power of the floating castle for evil purposes. But in the end it is one of the best movies ever made and as well as being s film that I consider to be a Miyazaki classic.