Hollywood Animators, Eat Your Hearts Out

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2018)

It's some time since I was moved to comment on a movie, but Spirited Away has moved me. I downloaded this movie several weeks ago and noticing that it was an animation I subliminally shelved it. Why? Because for several years I have avoided animated movies emanating from Hollywood. OK, in the early days of computer animation the technology was enough to make the 'new animation' movies interesting. But then, the fact that there was no real story left them with just the technology, which like all things, soon becomes, 'ordinary'. What is missing from all the animated movies I have sampled since is the 'same-ole' animation techniques with overactive characters bouncing around and moving at un-natural speeds. Wow, a seventeen-year-old movie out of 'who knows where' (all the credits are in some far eastern language), that blows all the current animated movies out of the water. In Spirited Away, the attention to detail in every aspect of the story, and there really is a story, is impressive. I will say no more, if you are an enlightened individual, do yourself a favor and watch this movie. More than once. A message for the Hollywood new century Jellyheads, stop basking in the technology, it's just a tool, it's the story and the attention to detail that really matters.