Astonishing, the most wildly imaginative story ever put onto film

Rating: 10/10 (23 October 2007)

A vibrant hallucination, a wondrous lucid dream, an unmatched work of astonishing creativity, 'Sprited Away' -- and the knowledge that a human being created such a work -- will fill your heart with hope for our species.
This may be my favorite film of all time. I do not care for Anime as a rule, but to call this Anime is to call 'Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon' a Kung Fu flick. Spirited Away utterly transcends its genre.
Miyazaki's spirit is strong throughout this film. His lifelong themes of flying, transformation, of facing situations without presumptions or assumptions, of dreaming, and his abhorrence of one dimensional 'good' or 'bad' characters, all find threads in this film, and all weave together into a complex but satisfying plot that reaches a wonderful conclusion. See this film and you life will be much richer for it.