Great Film: No distribution: Disney wins Dopey Award

Rating: 9/10 (6 December 2002)

"Spirited Away" is one of the best fables filmed. Audiences seem to know this, yet Disney has neither advertised it nor made a serious effort to distribute it in the United States. This lack of effort merely encourages comparison of this work to other Disney offerings. The last film that Disney did of this calibre is Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937). Atlantis may have come close, but Spirited Away puts it and other Disney efforts of the last sixty years to shame.
It has a good story line grounded in some very important ideas. It is a classic fable and hard to believe it is all from the mind of a 20th century writer, Hayao Miyazaki. I look forward to his future efforts: they will be worthwhile.
It is worth a long drive to see Spirited Away.