Comments on: Howl’s Moving Castle – Review

By: sweetdelightss

sweetdelightss — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:28:00 +0000

I just recently watched this movie and wow. The visuals in it are amazing. Especially Howls’ room and his childhood home. LOVE IT. But, like you mentioned in your review, that story feels super rushed and doesn’t allow the viewer to connect to the movie. Don’t get me wrong, the whole time I’m watching the movie I find myself wanting to love everything about it, but isn’t that something that should just happen on it own? Either way, I’d watch it again and enjoy it thoroughly.

By: Kazas411

Kazas411 — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:40:00 +0000

Rather “quite confusing” I would say “quite mysterious”. That’s why I love it/

By: Trang Le

Trang Le — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:37:00 +0000

Hey, I’m looking forward to reading your review of Kiki’s delivery service. Lovely film, but I think it’s nowhere near the height of Spirited Away, Whisper of the Heart, Laputa.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:14:09 +0000

I don’t feel Hollywood has been a failure in the animation realm unless you mean the two-dimensional animation realm because three-dimensional animation studios like Pixar have released some pretty excellent stuff over the years, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, and The Incredibles being my top picks. A Bug’s Life, however, was a shameless ripoff of Seven Samurai and Up was a ripoff of Hayao Miyazaki’s entire style.

By Hayao Miyazaki standards, Howl’s Moving Castle was a bit of a disappointment. It didn’t reach anywhere near the glorious heights of Castle in the Sky, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, or Spirited Away.

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By: Aiden R

Aiden R — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:44:42 +0000

Thought this was a pretty sweet movie, not Miyazaki’s best, but visually stunning and endearing all the same. Good review, homey.

By: ironanno

ironanno — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:19:06 +0000

I’m surprised how high people rate this film. I didn’t like the dreary european setting, or the basic premise of a girl growing old. Howl’s moving castle is based on a fantasy novel which is perhaps why it seems to fall short. For me this is the Miyazaki movie I liked the least.

Fantasy books to movies are usually problematic which might explain the plot. Most of the time I felt that the story was just floating about not going anywhere.

One of the high points, to say something positive, about the movie for me was the castle itself. Miyazaki does mechanical contraptions extremely well and the castle is a wondrous contraption.

By: Alisa

Alisa — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:49:54 +0000

Great review as always Cello. I will watch it with interest…

… And adore it, because I am an utter romantic and can’t help myself, Miyazaki’s worlds seem to do it for me every time. Speaking of which, still have to catch Ponyo.

By: glothelegend

glothelegend — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:05:44 +0000

I’m running out of Miyazaki films….the only one I haven’t seen is Porco Rosso. I thought that Perfect Blue was well done. It’s probably one of my favorites.

By: Yi

Yi — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:00:10 +0000

I agree with the rating. I think it fell a bit short of being a classic Miyazaki like Spirited Away or Totoro or Nausicaa or Laputa(Or a bunch of others).
It simply was a bit too confusing.