You know. I've seen countless of animes throughout my life. From Ghost In The Shell, Ninja Scroll, The End of Evangelion, Akira, etc. etc. (Anime movies not shows.) Hayo Miyazaki's (Spirited Away which won the 2002 Best Animation Oscar.) Howl's Moving Castle is breath taking. I have never seen anything like that in my entire life. In France this movie got a 7 minute clapping ovation. This movie has already crushed the Incredibles and already blew Spirited Away out of the water. I just don't get it. Every single one of his movies gets better and better. He crushes any Disney movie out there100 times over. That's why Disney always begs for him to let them sponser it here in America.

For someone who's watched anime for so long. This was my first one to see it on the big movie screen. I loved it so much. The animation to this feature was beyond words. The CGI you could hardly tell where they were. And practically a lot of it was hand drawn. This is a 2+ hour movie I'm talking about. That's HUGE. All the characters are so loveable in the movie. I love my scarecrow "Turnip Head" hehe. He was so cool! And the Moving Castle was absolutley gorgeous moving around like that.

And the English Dubbing was superb. The english voice acting was soooooooo good that it's far beyond greatness then Cowboy Bebop, Gundam Wing, Ranma 1/2 and Inuyasha could ever be. Of course since Miyzaki is such a big deal. The voices in the movie were some pretty big Hollywood stars. Christan Bale (The New Batman in Batman Begins he plays Howl!) and Billy Crystal (Played The little Fire Demon so uber cute and freaking funny!!!) there were a few other big names but I didn't regconized too well and can't remember. I think one girl was Emily B. something.

But anyways this was a great movie. This you could take your whole family too. It's so weird how all of Miyazaki's stuff is pretty much having to deal with little kids in the anime and they do so extremely well all over the world. I can't remember what place it was in with the top movies in the world you know. I've read one of his mangas  (comicbook called Nausicaa Valley Of The Wind which is also another anime movie and is like 300 to 500 pages each, 5 of them in all.) I've seen Princess Mononoke. Others Are Kiki's Delivary Service and Castle In The Sky. There's a bit more I haven't named yet but I'll have to look them up.

Miyazaki's is one of the modern masters of Japanese Cinema as a Director and Writer. The guy went to college for economics and fell in love with reading children's stories that he went to Toei (A Major Anime Corporation These Days) It's so amazing how the best movies ever done are all done about children stories. Take care guys and leave me comments. I swear you'll go out and want to see this movie. I'm not sure if it's Limited Release. My cousin said that there were commercials for it so we'll see. It's great if you can see it go see it. It's so wonderful and just amazing how well crafted this is.