At a time when computer imagery can do just about everything except inspire a genuine sense of wonder, Hayao Miyazaki's hand-crafted animation serves as a reminder of what it means to be truly amazed. Each of his features is a dazzlingly beautiful, endlessly inventive parable, often about youth and adulthood, and while not as cohesive as his masterpiece, the Academy Award-winning SPIRITED AWAY (2001), this magical adventure delivers the goods. Sophie (voice of Emily Mortimer), a pretty but prematurely frumpy young milliner, toils in what appears to be a fin-de-siècle Europe where all Jules Verne's daydreams have come true. After a brief but romantic encounter with a ...
Released:
2004
Rated:
PG
Length:
119 mins