This animated adventure from genre superstar Hayao Miyazaki has spirit to spare.
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09/20/02
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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.
Theatrical Release:Sep 20, 2002 Limited
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
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Reviews for Spirited Away
It almost goes without saying that the animation is jaw dropping.
09/20/02
La cinta animada más hermosa que he visto jamás.
10/22/02
Spirited Away is a trip, in the literal, metaphorical and indeed lysergic senses of that word.
09/26/02
Top CriticEven if CG cartoons come to dominate Japan as they do much of the world, there's a corner of the animation field that will be forever Miyazaki.
09/03/03
'Alice in Wonderland meets the East...taking full advantage of the complex powers of anime and its freedom to go wherever the mind can imagine.'
10/12/02
It races along with the speed of a bullet train, visiting weird, enchanted places the likes of which have never been seen before.
10/28/03
It's the sort of film that gives rise to the awed question, 'How did he do that?'
01/05/03
Not as visually awesome as 'Princess Mononoke,' but more appealing to youngsters. A wonderful combination of simplicity and spectacle.
09/19/02
...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
Top CriticWhat separates Miyazaki's animation from everyone else's is the way he imagines his worlds.
04/28/03
A two-hour feast of visual imagination, consistently rendered at the highest level of graphic art.
09/20/02
Packed with strange beings amid painterly settings, Spirited Away delivers one of the most colorful fantasy worlds since the similarly surreal Yellow Submarine.
10/04/02
Top CriticTo call this film inventive is to grossly understate its accomplishment.
05/07/03
A lovely, evocative tour de force.
09/20/02
Has the mythic quality and the familiarity of great children's literature.
09/20/02
Even though Disney released this film, Spirited Away points up just how by-the-numbers the studio's fare can be.
09/20/02
A film not to miss.
10/02/02
At the almost-two-hour mark, the film, which seems poised to keep going with yet another bravura sequence of magic, suddenly wraps everything up really fast.
10/11/02
The closest American counterpart to Spirited Away is Alice in Wonderland, but no analogy will fully prepare you.
10/01/02
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