...brilliant in its imagery and astonishing in its creativity. Many films are billed as voyages into fantasy, but this one actually delivers.
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10/04/02
Spirited Away (2002)
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Reviews Counted:154
Fresh:150
Rotten:4
Average Rating:8.5/10
Consensus: Hayao Miyazaki's dazzling, enchanting Spirited Away takes viewers, young and old alike, through the looking glass.
Runtime: 2 hrs 12 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: Directed by animation legend Hayao Miyazaki, SPIRITED AWAY is the tale of Chihiro (voiced by Daveigh Chase), a young girl who is taken down an unusual road by her parents while moving to a new home... [More]
Starring: Daveigh Chase, Jason Marsden, Michael Chiklis, Susan Egan
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Reviews for Spirited Away
'Alice's adventure through the looking glass and into zombie-land' is filled with strange and wonderful creatures.
10/04/02
That rare movie that has the emotional and psychological depth to match its stunning surface.
10/03/02
A film not to miss.
10/02/02
The closest American counterpart to Spirited Away is Alice in Wonderland, but no analogy will fully prepare you.
10/01/02
An exquisitely formed, flawlessly executed masterwork...As sheerly imaginative and groundbreakingly wondrous as any animated motion picture you are sure to have seen.
09/28/02
To say that Miyazaki's intelligent, painstaking, hand-crafted anime is magical, dazzling and brilliant is an understatement - it's incomparable, ingenious and inventive -just watch for a win at Osca-time!
09/27/02
This is one heck of a movie, and one can see why it made all that money in Japan.
09/26/02
There's a sense of delicacy, and artfulness, in the tone and in the magic. The 10-year-olds who see this like to be scared, but they won't have nightmares days afterward.
09/26/02
There's a sense of delicacy, and artfulness, in the tone and in the magic. The 10-year-olds who see this like to be scared, but they won't have nightmares days afterward.
09/26/02
An animated film that is among the most delightful, imaginative stories I've seen all year.
09/26/02
Spirited Away is a trip, in the literal, metaphorical and indeed lysergic senses of that word.
09/26/02
Miyazaki has created such a vibrant, colorful world, it's almost impossible not to be swept away by the sheer beauty of his images.
09/26/02
Although anime features aren’t all the rage in a majority of American movie theaters, Spirited Away should be a legitimate excuse to change this pending sentiment.
09/26/02
For all its slapstick and even the occasional gross-out gag, Spirited Away is an animated film whose major delights are also its subtlest.
09/26/02
Steeped in lore and unabashedly surreal, the film is just charming enough for children and just bizarre enough for adults -- a perfect balance.
09/25/02
Even when Spirited Away follows the easy route, with true love as the solvent to most problems, it's so jam-packed with spectacular images, sights, and sounds that it conjures up a million dreams you've had (lovely, awesome, and terrifying) and tra
09/25/02
Something akin to a Japanese Alice Through the Looking Glass, except that it seems to take itself far more seriously.
09/25/02
This fantastically weird cartoon is definitely one of the most intriguing movies of the year.
09/24/02
Miyazaki seems to have an inexhaustible supply of ideas to fill the screen and to fill screen time.
09/23/02
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