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Kiki's Delivery Service Actor: Minami Takayama Director: Hayao Miyazaki Number of Items: 2 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Format: Animated, Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Running Time: 105 minutes Studio: Walt Disney Home Video Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2003-04-15 Buy from Amazon |
 "Magical, Beauitful Movie!"Kiki's Delivery Service was truly a joy to watch with my family. We all loved the beauitful animation all of Studio Ghibli's works have... and the fun, laughter, and excitment of them all! The movie itself will take you through a magical adventure, and I rather not go on and say what the movie is about. If you'd like... read the other reviews. I don't like to spoil things for people, so please... if you like magic, and your looking for a fun movie for any age of person, try Kiki's Delivery Service! "A Dip into Self Doubt, then Triumph"Thursday, June 16, 2005 / 5 of 5 / A Dip into Self Doubt, then Triumph Rounding out my viewing of early Miyazaki films prior to Princess Mononoke I arrived at Kiki's Delivery Service. Once again an original compelling idea from the great mind of the director. As a young witch coming of age, she sets out to find and make a town her own at the age of 13 along with her talking black cat. Unlike many of the earlier films this one shows a much more pensive and unsure side of a Miyazaki heroine. She has moments of self-doubt and loses her confidence in herself and her craft. Lovingly crafted, the flying scenes are again magical even with just the simple sound of the flapping of her black dress. No villains in this one, just a sweet story of a young girl trying to be all she can be and the town she adopts loving her back in Pollyanna style. Highly recommended. "Wonderful movie- In ANY Language!"This movie has it all; Beautiful, non - adult, non ecchi Anime, and an absolutely charming storyline. Not something seen too often in either American and Japanese animated films nowadays. Uncle Walt would be proud. Kikki is a young witch, entering her so called "Witch Prime." When witches reach the age of 13, they leave home, and go out into the world for a year of "Training". The storyline takes us into Kikki's rite of passage, as it were, and immedately draws us into it, every inch of the way. We see her joys, pains, and her sadness, as she journeys to the big city to find her way. The movie is simplistic, yet contains some of the most beautiful artwork and storytelling I have ever seen in an animated film. It never strays too far from it's main character, and in this process we actually grow care for her. The movie is a little long, at 105 minutes, but it is worth every one of those minutes. If you want a simple, joyus sample of anime, without the violence or hentai that is so prevelant in the medium, then this film is for you. "So cute"I liked this movie so much.. it has no bad guys and stuff.. the first I ever see a movie without bad ppl.. like real bad bad ppl.. But I give 5 stars for the movie and 2 stars for the quality of the box.. "Magnificent ! But it gave me a shocking surprise..."Definitely one of the finest "growing up" stories I have ever experienced. I was looking forward to get this DVD and there was one special reason for this. The DVD's tracks have the Spanish dub included. When I purchased the VHS version, the Spanish track was also one of the best Spanish dubs I had ever heard. Alas, when I played the disc in my dvd player I discovered something terrible... the Spanish track was truly Spanish... I thought I was going to find the Mexican Spanish dub. Although the Spaniard dub was well done the accent just didn't ring the tones in my ears. Do not get me wrong there is nothing wrong with Spain's dub but since there are millions of Mexicans living in the U.S. and you have 100 million south the border, well you expect the Mexican dub in an American DVD realease with a a Spanish version dub. You certainly don't expect the Castillian dub for 30 million speakers across the Atlantic... |
