Favourite Movie Hands-Down, No Competition

Rating: 10/10 (18 May 2012)

When I was little, watching an animated Disney movie was an incredible, mind-blowing experience, the sad scenes so heart-wrenching I wanted to cry, the fight-scenes so intense I thought I was going to faint, and the happy endings so uplifting that I literally wanted to leap for joy.
Spirited Away is one of those rare movies which makes me feel like I am a child again, totally, utterly lost inside the movie.
The art and imagery is simply breathtaking, the score is haunting, the atmosphere and feeling is completely unique and captivating, the storyline is almost non-existent yet at the same time extremely compelling, the characters are fascinating and the dream-like world is at once so magically surreal but shockingly realistic.
No film I have watched as an adult has ever really come close to Spirited Away.