It is a credit to Miyazaki & co.’s unbridled ingenuity that this is a film inspired by Jonathan Swift, featuring zeppelins, robots, an obscure authoritarian regime, a requisite apocalyptic finale, and an adorable romance between two rather plucky adolescents. The film shares many obvious traits with Ghibli’s recent Howl’s Moving Castle, but Laputa is probably the more conventionally thrilling film. Every child should see this, and certainly every Disney executive.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: The Studio Ghibli Collection DVD
12 Jun 2006 1:58 PM | Submit Comment