Amazing film

Rating: 10/10 (26 September 2003)

Miazaki's Spirited Away is a masterpiece in every respect and is a milestone in animated film by its warmth, complexity and richness - the old Disney films feels very feeble in comparison.
The basic story is not much different from many other animated stories, about a seemingly normal world that proves to be enchanted, where humans, occasionally, intermix with gods and ghosts, with unexpected results.
Compared to Miazaki's earlier works, like My Friend Totoro, Porco Rosso and Princess Monoke, it presents an even more complex and fantastic world than any of these, and yet they are closely related. In My Friend Totoro there are a few supernatural creatures, in Porco Rosso there is a man who has been turned into a pig by a curse, in Princess Monoke the gods battle with humans, while in Spirited Away we have a multitude of gods, ghosts, a few humans, like the heroin's parents, that like Porco Rosso has been turned into pigs.
Complex sagas about the battle of good and evil, and that the good can become evil and vice versa.
Spirited away just does it to the n-th degree.
a 10/10, without doubt!