The most enchanting thing about Miyazaki's work is his desire to do just that -- enchant.
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03/07/03
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
US Box Office: $9,855,615
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
Top CriticA rich and fantastic world awaits us in this extraordinary film from Hayao Miyazaki (and a crew of thousands), through which our little heroine has to progress and learn responsibility amidst great dangers and fearsome spirits.
12/08/02
Top CriticThe wonders never stop.
10/08/03
It's easy to get lost amid the flow, as characters transform and magical powers emerge and disappear without warning.
10/18/02
...brilliant in its imagery and astonishing in its creativity. Many films are billed as voyages into fantasy, but this one actually delivers.
10/04/02
Filled with haunting imagery, subtly rendered characters and an emotional core absent from most anime, Spirited Away is a rich cinematic experience, a story that reads like direct translation of the director’s dream...
10/21/02
Miyazaki's nonstop images are so stunning, and his imagination so vivid, that the only possible complaint you could have about Spirited Away is that there is no rest period, no timeout.
11/04/02
Genius and nothing but -- that's what Miyazaki means.
10/13/02
One of the most impressive animated features of this year, or any other.
09/03/03
This persistently fascinating if slightly over-long fairytale is propelled by the seemingly boundless imagination of writer-director Hayao Miyazaki.
10/18/08
We are thrust into a kaleidoscopic wonderland for more than two hours, quite long for an animated film. There’s enough adventure and jeopardy in this film to fill five films of this nature.
11/14/02
Spirited Away delivers chunks of Yellow Submarine and The Phantom Tollbooth -- a vividly timeless oddity suitable for many children and most stoners.
09/20/02
Miyazaki understands the magic Disney intended, and he elevates it to a higher realm of dreamy, worldly mysticism that is appealing to children of all ages and temperaments.
09/21/02
Hayao Miyazaki may be one of Japan's leading animators, but in his new film, Miyazaki's Spirited Away, he also envelops you in a wondrous landscape of archetypal magic.
09/20/02
To call this film inventive is to grossly understate its accomplishment.
05/07/03
Spirited Away is wonderful.
09/03/08
The version you'll see has been well dubbed.
10/18/02
This is one of the year's best films.
09/20/02
Top CriticA movie full of bewitching images and timeless fun and beauty.
09/19/02
Spirited Away is too intense for the youngest viewers, but teenagers will enjoy it -- an ill-smelling 'stink-god' character is almost worthy of a Kevin Smith gross-out movie -- and grown-ups should find it diverting, if not exactly deep.
09/20/02
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