Spirited Away

Buy This Item Spirited Away by Walt Disney Video  Available from Amazon  $20.49  on 11-27-2008     The highest grossing film in Japanese box-office history (more than $234 million), Hayao Miyazaki's <I>Spirited Away</I> (<I>Sen To Chihiro Kamikakushi</I>) is a dazzling film that reasserts the power of drawn animation to create fantasy worlds. Like Dorothy in <I>The Wizard of Oz</I> and Lewis Carroll's Alice, Chihiro (voice by Daveigh Chase--Lilo in Disney's <I>Lilo & Stitch</I>) plunges into an alternate reality. On the way to their new home, the petulant adolescent and her parents find what they think is a deserted amusement park. Her parents stuff themselves until they turn into pigs, and Chihiro discovers they're trapped in a resort for traditional Japanese gods and spirits. An oddly familiar boy named Haku (Jason Marsden) instructs Chihiro to request a job from Yubaba (Suzanne Pleshette), the greedy witch who rules the spa. As she works, Chihiro's untapped qualities keep her from being corrupted by the greed that pervades Yubaba's mini-empire. In a series of fantastic adventures, she purges a river god suffering from human pollution, rescues the mysterious No-Face, and befriends Yubaba's kindly twin, Zeniba (Pleshette again). The resolve, bravery, and love Chihiro discovers within herself enable her to aid Haku and save her parents. The result is a moving and magical journey, told with consummate skill by one of the masters of contemporary animation. MPAA Rated: PG ("Some scary moments") <I>--Charles Solomon</I> Reader Reviews mezmerizing everytime i put it in my dvd player i end up glued there until its over my whole family enjoys it

Spirited Away Available from Amazon Price: $20.49 Updated on 11-27-2008.

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