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10/18/08
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Spirited Away (2002)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:30
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.7/10
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
Top CriticThink you're too hip for Japanese anime about a lost ten-year-old girl whose parents turn into snorting pigs? Get over it.
08/14/07
Top CriticMiyazaki'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
Top Critic[Spirited Away is] the most deeply and mysteriously satisfying animated feature to come along in ages.
10/06/02
Top CriticPacked 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 CriticChildren may not understand everything that happens -- I'm not sure even Miyazaki himself does -- but they will almost certainly be fascinated, and undoubtedly delighted.
10/04/02
Top CriticMiyazaki floods the screen with beautiful scenes and enough fascinating creatures to put Pokemon to shame.
10/04/02
Top Critic...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 CriticThat rare movie that has the emotional and psychological depth to match its stunning surface.
10/03/02
Top CriticSpirited Away is a trip, in the literal, metaphorical and indeed lysergic senses of that word.
09/26/02
Top CriticMiyazaki is one of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers.
09/23/02
Top CriticMiyazaki has provided another triumph, and, in the midst of the quality fall-off of Disney's in-house animated projects, a reason for animation-lovers to rejoice.
09/22/02
Top CriticA cultural wildcard experience: wacky, different, unusual, even nutty.
09/20/02
Top CriticLike old myths and wonder tales spun afresh.
09/20/02
Top CriticEven though Disney released this film, Spirited Away points up just how by-the-numbers the studio's fare can be.
09/20/02
Top CriticSpirited Away is every bit as captivating for its sheer graphic power as it is for its message of go-get-'em-girl power.
09/20/02
Top CriticA lovely, evocative tour de force.
09/20/02
Top CriticThis is one of the year's best films.
09/20/02
Top CriticSpirited Away delivers chunks of Yellow Submarine and The Phantom Tollbooth -- a vividly timeless oddity suitable for many children and most stoners.
09/20/02
Top CriticSpirited Away has the quality of a dream: It takes you places so foreign and fantastic you have no option but to yield completely to it and be spirited along.
09/20/02
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August 21, 2008:
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