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Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5060034573319
Format: PAL
Label: Optimum Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageItalianOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Optimum Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: February 27, 2006
Running Time: 125 minutes
Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
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Editorial Review:Amazon.co.uk Review:Inspired by
Gulliver's Travels, the fantasy-adventure
Castle in the Sky was Hayao Miyazaki's third feature, and helped to establish his reputation as a visionary in both Japan and America. The orphan Sheeta inherited a mysterious crystal that links her to the legendary sky-kingdom of Laputa. With the help of resourceful Pazu and a rollicking band of sky pirates, she makes her way to the ruins of the once-great civilization. Sheeta and Pazu must outwit the evil Muska, who plans to use Laputa's science to make himself ruler of the world. Castle echoes elements in Myazaki's earlier
Nausicaä, and anticipates imagery in his later films, from
My Neighbor Totoro to
Spirited Away. Disney's new English dub, which features Anna Paquin (Sheeta), James Van Der Beek (Pazu), and Cloris Leachman (pirate matriarch Dola), is lively and close in tone to the original Japanese, if a bit talkier. The exciting flying sequences, appealing characters, and fantastic vision of a steam-powered future Jules Verne might have imagined make
Castle in the Sky a must-have for fans of Japanese and Western animation.
--Charles Solomon , Amazon.com
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This is another Hayao Miyazaki masterpiece. As with his other films, the strength is in the story and the storytelling. Even though this supposed to be a children film, it has a strong appeal to adults, with the intrigue of the power play between the characters and people are not what they first appear. There is the additional puzzle if you want to work out who's providing the voice for the villain, it's Mark Hamill. Always wondered what he did after playing Luke Skywalker! The only downside and ...
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This film is lovely in parts but a lot of fight/ chase scenes for young children which has put me off watching it with my daughter. I do love Miyazaki though and am slowly working my way through all his films! Delivery was good.
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All of the usual colourful characters and outstanding music conspire to make this film one of the best in its genre. You can watch it again and again. It explores themes of love, sacrifice, growth and decay; the animation is consistently beautiful. Greattttt
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Although made fifteen years before one of the Miyazaki films that it most resembles, Laputa exhibits many of the characteristics of Spirited Away, and anyone who has been introduced to Studio Ghibli's work through the later film, will find much to enjoy in this charming story of the Castle in the Sky.
Visually, although the animation isn't quite as sharp as Miyazaki's later work (it was made in 1986), it doesn't look dated. Many of the hallmark features of a Miyazaki animation are present ...
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I'm new to Japanimation (is this movie anime?) and I have to say when I saw it on Film4 a few days ago (the English dubbed version - I was interested to see that Mark Hamill was included in the voice credit list) I couldn't stop watching it. Now, I'm 32 and I thought I'd stopped watching cartoons decades ago, but this was something more than that. In fact, my "awakening" actually happened after I watched another Japanimation, again on Film4, at Christmas, called 'Princess Mononoke'. Ever since then I've ...
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