The deathstar strikes again.

Rating: 6/10 (5 February 2020)

This Is the one ghibli I didn't watch when I was young. And my thoughts are diffuse. I can't understand the praise or the high scores really. Maybe because I didn't watch it as a child.
Thing Is, the typical ghibli storytelling here lacks the magic atmosphere And places foremost. Laputa castle Is just a gigantic doomsday machine, in the wrong hands it spits out a nuclear beam. The robots are like terminators so in that sense the laputa is not a place for children. Then we have the mining colony. Where pirates and military shoot bazookas at the Children. Its not a very nice place at all. So ok we have the deathstar and the crazy robots and a militaryforce that kidnaps children. What I mean the movie would have been great If it went Akira all the way. But It doesn't do that. Its still a childrens movie. Even though it should not be. The cheeta girl also looks exactly like a copy of Kiki. Wich is weird. And the mechanic looks exactly like the bathhouse keeper. I also thinks that the high tech laputa castle Is really badly explained. What The heck is it? Except a weird horror cube deathstar puzzle. When the movie credits rolled i was still confuced of everything.