This past weekend I made it up to Louisville to see Howl’s Moving Castle, the latest offering from Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. I’m a big fan of the other Miyazaki films, and Spirited Away is one of my favorite movies of all time, so I had pretty high expectations going into the film. Coming out I only had one thing to say:
Howl’s Moving Castle = Amazing!!
The animation is incredibly well done, the visuals are all beautifully weird and the imagination throughout the film is phenomenal. I took a girl who isn’t really into animation, and who doesn’t have any real interest in anything anime related, and even she liked it. It’s a strong movie, regardless of whether you’re an animation fan, and I recommend it, if you can get to it.