BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

cruzchristopher I watched this when I was in 7th grade. Almost 6 years ago and it was also in Japanese which was quite a fun experience. From that day forward I fell in love with it. Finally got the opportunity to watch it again and all those great feelings were back in the blink of an eye. I could watch this movie every day and never ever get bored of it. Never pass up an opportunity to see it. It's an experience that you will never forget. All of Studio Ghibli's movies are must see but Castle In The Sky should be on your bucket list. This movie is an absolute masterpiece.

graslund This is my all time favorite movie, I watched it a lot as a child and went back to watch it a couple weeks ago. It holds up and will most likely forever remain as my favorite movie of all time. The animation is excellent and don't even get me started on the music. The music is astounding and perfectly sets the tone for each scene. Overall a definite 10/10

subxerogravity What a difference a dub makes. I had the pleasure of seeing Castle in the Sky in theaters with English subtitles and an English dub.Seems almost like a different movie with Disney's top notch English dub over the Japanese sub titles.The felt the music was definitely far better on the English dub, and I liked the voice Talent of Cloris Leachman and of course the great Mark Hamil.A brilliant story told by Hayao Miyazaki about two kids using a crystal to out run pirates and secret agents to find a floating castle.Once again the story is being told by the motion graphic that is animation. As good as the English dub was it does not beat the story being told without words. that's what makes Miyazaki so brilliant.http://cinemagardens.com

danbranan I was so excited about this film after reading all the glowing reviews, but it was a real disappointment. It's one of Miyazaki's earlier works, and that may explain it, but I just couldn't enjoy this film even though I really wanted to. I know it sounds funny to say, but it was simply just too "cartoony". The beginning of the film is pure magic and for the first 15 minutes or so, I was engrossed in the story and looking forward to the rest of the film. But soon after that, it degraded to almost Saturday-morning cartoon levels of predictability, relying on exaggerated and typical villains and supporting characters. If you liked this at all, you owe it to yourself to check out more of Miyazaki's films. He is a true artist and is capable of much better than this.