Best anime movie, ever!

Rating: 10/10 (1 March 2007)

Out of all the Hayao Miyazaki films, this has to be the best one of all time. Sure, Nausicaa may be his masterpiece, but Spirited Away is much better. For starters, we have your spooled 10 year old girl moving to a new town and after her parents turn into pigs, she has to rescue them. Yeah sounds like a contrived plot, but its the way she goes about doing things, as well as splendid animation and music that make this worthwhile. She has to work for a living, and no kid will do that willingly, but she manages and makes friends who help her out along the way. The dub work by Pixar is excellent, it makes sense in Japanese or in English. There are no slow points: quiet scenes yes but nothing is boring, the screen demands your attrition with all the detail, hand drawn to boot. In fact, it might take 2-3 screening on DVD to see everything.