This is a review of spirited away

Rating: 10/10 (14 June 2012)

Spirited Away ("The Spiriting Away of Sen and Chihiro") is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy- adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. Since the Japanese anime movie was translated in English, the actual stars that did the voices were different. The main character of the movie is Chihiro voice by Rumi Hiiragi (Japanese version) and Daveigh Chase (English version), Haku voice by Miyu Irino (Japanese version) and Jason Marsden (English version), Yubaba/ Zeniba voice by Mari Natsuki (Japanese version) and Suzanne Pleshett (English Version) and other minor characters like Lin (worker in the bathhouse), Kamajii (boiler man), Chihiro's mom and Chihiro's dad. The setting of Spirited away is during the 1990's in a traditional Japanese bathhouse. This movie is full of Adventure/Fantasy.
The movie starts when Chihiro,a 10 year old girl is in the car with her parents and they are on their way to their new house in the suburbs when her father takes a shortcut and they end up in a abandoned theme park. Chihiro's father wants to explore it so Chihiro's mother goes along with him but, Chihiro doesn't think it's a good idea so she tries to stop them but they don't listen to her and they end up going anyways and she follows them since she doesn't want to stay alone in the car. While exploring it they find a deserted stall piled with food and they start eating. They insists Chihiro to eat with them but she has a bad feeling about it so she refuses and she wanders away by herself and finds a grand bathhouse, a boy warns her to leave before its nightfall. When she runs back to her parents, they have been turned into pigs by the witch Yubaba, Chihiro now takes a job working in Yubaba's bathhouse to find a way to free herself and her parents and escape back to the human world.
One thing I loved about the movie was the animation. Miyazaki and his staff had been experimenting with the process of computer animation. They started learning more about the computer and its programs like soft image but each character was largely animated by hand. During the process of editing the movie they had difficulty cutting down the length of the movie. Miyazaki learned that if he made the movie according to his plot it would be 3 hours long so he had to delete many different scenes so that the movie was simple. I love how he made the characters,the characters were very unique. In most of the movies the main character is usually very "pretty" but i liked how Miyazaki made her very plain and simple because it shows even plain and simple can be "charming".
I loved the background Music that was used in the movie because it also helps the movie be successful. The music helps the audience convey the feelings of fear,joy, and relief. One example is when Haku tells Chihiro to leave before its nightfall and she is running to her parents and she finds out her parents have been turned into pigs and she is alone and she doesn't know what is going on. The music conveys the fear from Chihiro into the audience. Another example is when she was walking down the stairs and she was so scared because she thought she was going to fall so she was going down the stairs very slowly and one of the stairs broke and she ran down the stairs very fast. For this the music also coveys the fear of chihiro into the audience.
In my opinion I think Spirited away was a Fantastic movie. I really love everything about the movie I don't have any complains about this movie. I strongly recommend it to anyone who hasn't watched it. It one of my favorite movies and I have watched it more than 1000 times. It's such a beautiful movie and the story line is just perfect. I think Hayao Miyazaki is genius because I have seen most of the movies he wrote and I have fallen in love with each and every one of them. To be honest I used to hate adventure movies, I was like obsessed about romantic movies but after I saw his movie I fell in love with it. I highly highly recommend this movie and hope people watch it because there is NOTHING bad about this movie and you will love it.