Great film

Rating: 8/10 (18 July 2016)

The movie, "Spirited Away" is Hayao Miyazaki's greatest masterpiece to date. The story follows a sullen young girl, Chihiro, who is on her way to her new home with her family. While traveling in the car, her father decided to take a detour and they end up in what appears to be an abandoned amusement park. Once there, Chihiro's parents begin eating food and turn into pigs. Chihiro runs off in terror and runs into a young boy, Haku. He informs her that the amusement park is in fact a town inhabited by spirits and demons. The main part of the town is a bath house where the spirits go to relax. Chihiro must work there to save herself and her parents. The cast does a great job at voicing the characters, and the animation is spectacular. Pixar native, John Lasseter, did an excellent job at translating and interpreting Miyazaki's original message of the film. The English version of this film easily highlights the themes of love and never looking back. I believe that these are two themes that Hayao Miyazaki envisioned when writing and directing this movie, and John Lasseter perfectly integrated these themes into the movie when he helped translate the film from Japanese. This film is beautiful and imaginative. Audiences seem to think the same thing since this film is considered to be the highest grossing movie in Japanese history and is considered to be one of the best animated films of all time. "Spirited Away" is a light hearted film that everyone should see at some point in their life.