One appreciates the effort, especially in this day and age when imagination in movies is at such a premium. Moreover, the elegance of the backgrounds and the fluidity of the movement provide some of the best work in those areas that animation has ever offered. The animators have created an entire world filled with inhabitants that defy description. No one would ever deny the visual splendor and wealth of imagination that have gone into the look of this film. Chihiro encounters an amazing array of strange and exotic creatures abiding there, some of whom help her in her quest and some of whom don't. After her parents are turned into pigs, the young girl must infiltrate the bathhouse to find a way to make them human again. In Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning animated feature, 'Spirited Away,' a young girl by the name of Chihiro and her parents stumble across an abandoned 'amusement park' that turns out to be a mysterious bathhouse for the spirit world (a la 'Carnival of Souls'). Favorite films: Lesser-known Masterpieces: Favorite TV-Shows reviewed: Favorite Low-Budget and B-Movies: Outstanding animation funny, weird, scary and touching at the same time, this unique work of art is one I can't recommend enough. Maybe the themes of the story don't feel quite as strange to an eastern audience because they fit to a certain degree with some eastern/Asian mythologies - to me, this beautiful piece of wonder was something new. And the strange, mythical nature of this film - apart from the amazing artwork - is probably one of the main reasons for its appeal to me.
What a surreal idea for a movie! It's hard to find an adequate description (because I also don't want to spoil this in the slightest way) but this film has a sense of "otherness" to it - for lack of a better word - like none I've ever seen.
Personally, I've never seen anything as original in an animated film as in this deeply mythical fairytale.
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