Hello, I'm Aarett, I'm Jika, and this is the home view and starting out today, we want to tell you guys a little bit
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Missing an action. We didn't want to be but you know we've been caught up in these wildfires here in California
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Anyhow we've had a lot of family that he had
Involved in this we had some extra family living with us here for quite a while
We've had friends who have lost homes. It's it's actually been extremely devastating. We're truly
Sorry anybody lost our home out there. Yes. We are we feel so bad and
You just see devastation everywhere
We almost lost our own home
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Today we're reviewing yet another Miyazaki film
We already reviewed spirited away, which you can see a link for up here
And today is Howl's Moving Castle
We'd like our sound effects yeah once again
Miyazaki's genius has shown through his infamous
Imagination and this used to be my favorite animated film of his, but recently spirited away became my new favorite
the general plot is a young woman meets a wizard named Hal and is put under a
witch's curse and spell and which ages her dramatically and now she stays and
Howl's Moving Castle
to try and reverse the curse put on her and
She meets a slew of characters along the way how himself who is quite an interesting fellow?
a scarecrow that comes bouncing around
And a fire which I'm sure you'll talk about oh. Yes. I liked the fire one of my favorites actually
And a little boy
Who's an interesting fellow too there are many hidden themes in this film like all of Miyazaki's films. I feel like I've seen
Including many anti-war messages throughout
Very strong themes he puts in there. They don't really stick out at you you kind of have to search for them
They wouldn't really just go pop out Here
I am you have to look for them in his yeah, younger viewers wouldn't notice I don't even think older viewers
You really have to look for true
many of this was inspired by Muzak ease distaste for the
2003 Iraq Wars movie came out in 2004 you can assert himself a pacifist of sorts
The characters throughout Howl's Moving Castle seem to have these sadistic motivations for war and their causes and all these
General things yeah, it's pretty overwhelming. He has a lot of
Yeah
The general message of the film is war is bad and one particular scene that shows
this is you have Sofia ran a flower field standing around and
This big war machine comes flying in and just kind of ruins the whole scene okay. I like the peacefulness and then the
devastation yeah
Miyazaki had also made it a point to shed light on growing old as Sophie's character appears to be
unfazed when this spell is cast on her and
Actually feel she can speak her mind more now
He's trying to show I think that growing old is a privilege. It's to be
respected yeah
Howl's Moving Castle is actually Miyazaki's favorite film of his he is said so
And he also wanted to convey the message that life is worth living as Sophie is constantly
struck with these circumstances
Extreme like when she is cast a spell cast on or other situations throughout the film
Yes
She still cares for those she loves the most before so I think he's trying to show that regardless of the hardships
Many of us face in life. It's still everything is worth it
So I greatly enjoyed the characters, and how they grew and developed throughout the film that is Howl's Moving Castle
As well as the strong messages contained throughout the animation is top-notch and fantastic as always always
The sound was also amazing the soundtrack not as good as Spirit away in my opinion was still really good
Oh the sounds are always amazing
This film is a Great Escape of reality into another fantasy realm that Miyazaki creates, so well however
I do have my Gregg's with the film I
Believe the runtime is 30 minutes too long. I grew bored towards Ian's bleeding which at my watch here really
Bored yeah my opinion, and I found the plot
Unfocused and hard to follow the story kind of drifts along no real power or force behind it no real story
It sounds like I got some varying opinions coming up here, that's interesting now
I could get into more detail about the plot and the characters
But I feel it's good to go in as blind as possible with Miyazaki films, so I'm being very vague on purpose
So I'll go ahead and just give you my final grade. I give Howl's Moving Castle
Abbey
Pretty solid Marc. Yes pretty solid
So Jake I'm sure you have some interesting takes on this film
I'm a wicked evil witch and I'm going to cast a spell on you because I'm a witch
Well let's see well first of all I think I gotta put it out there
That it's hard for me to wrap around the idea that this series is actually
part of Disney
Not really what I think of when I think Disney material so that always kind of throws me a little bit
But you know we see a giant Star Wars resembling robot roaming through the hillsides
We thought you might not have had enough of that yet, oh never enough and a young girl Sophie who works obviously
unsatisfied in a hat shop
she daydreams
Staring out of the window
Gazing and she sees this huge
ravaging robot
And also loud fighter jets
Storming all above
And this site doesn't even seem to faze her a bit, so naturally nothing else that happens is it gonna faze her
Yeah, it just seems all commonplace
Like oh yeah, the other day like there it is
You know so I'm thinking oh, okay?
What kind of another crazy world did this Japanese?
animation creator come up with this time
But
Sofie starts to roam the streets
And then this weird guy shows up pal played by Christian Bale voiced at least yeah
He's very good at playing the ANU my god eccentric characters, and there's this one's no exception
But this hell shows up out of nowhere, and he tells her I am your escort
like okay and
Typically out of nowhere weirdness is common in these flicks
Which can be very intriguing, but it can also be kind of hard to follow at times
And I knew it was coming. I knew it was coming now. I'm starting to know these animated Minds
Hey, I know we're here. We go. I don't know where dark creepy
silhouettes begin flowed you know did the
shadows and
Sophie is eventually visited by a witch who puts a curse on her sounds a lot like Disney to me
Maybe a little bit sin relish and all those kind of things another mystic touch. Maybe touch
That's it
She puts a curse on her turning her into an old woman
And she handles this onset of this curse of being an old woman quite well
She's kind of like okay. I'm just an old woman now. Well. I'll just deal with it whatever
Yeah, you know there's no crying. There's no hysteria. There's no panic. You know. I think most of us would probably feel all those things
She's more worried about what her mother thinks than anything else yeah
But she's worried about what her family thinks she doesn't want them to see her so she goes off into the woods
to try to avoid that
And in her process of roaming through the woods, let's see what does she run into?
hmm a
Storm of the bizarre characters you have come to crave
there's that ravaging robot ready a
Stick scarecrow
Melting looking kind of like slime yellowbrickroad to go that's scary crap yeah
Then we didn't see
And even a talking
demon burning flame
That loves to say one-line puns like that burns me up
an interesting attempt
I thought to add some humor in there the character very vaguely reminded me of Jeannie just a little bit. Yeah vaguely
But you know she even interacts with the mysterious Hal himself and
Hal has many special abilities which we will not tell you zib zib, that would be spoiler time
Including being able to see Sophie as the young girl. She really is inside instead of this cursed old woman
Sophie and Hal established a loving bond and she learns a dark secret
about the connection between the fire demon and how
She also learns house to identity and form, but we won't tell him will we know
In a way, that's worth tuning in for itself. Don't you think gotta find it out?
The ending to this flick gives you a pretty good feel good
Satisfaction hind a disney ish again
Maybe a smidgen
and love beauty and of course added in drama I
Was not the biggest fan of the first one that we did watch a few reviews ago
spirited away
you might want to look back and our rehab dogs and
Find it it might worth it a while to watch it before I watch this one or after it so you can compare
They're not really directly you can watch it or kind of compare our reviews there
But I felt that one was very
out there
And very difficult to follow
But this time although it's still out there
I actually found the story line that I could get into unlike Garrett
And it kept my interest the whole time did not feel it was too long
And I have a newfound appreciation for the creative, but extremely bizarre characters in these films
Well the next one in the series keep me feeling the same way
But a future review will be the only thing that will tell that
But for Howl's Moving Castle I would recommend this view and I give it a half Rock
Well there you go we both recommend Howl's Moving Castle, so I guess it's worth a home view
Stamp of approval worth it
And we are going to have an era in Janka Halloween special coming up on Halloween night
Yes, gonna feature a film that Jake is not very comfortable with most likely yes
How do I get talked into these things by him, I don't
But you know if I know we've been gone for a little while little space in there, but you know as a general rule
Dyca, it's not a big fan of whole - bitch whore too much gore
too much violence
Just usually not my thing
So, but you know, this is a movie review show so sometimes
We throw some in for you
Just for you
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