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Actors: Richard Dysart, Mark Hamill, John Hostetter, Cloris Leachman, Michael McShane Director: Hayao Miyazaki Rating: Features: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 2 Running Time: 125 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Release Date: April 15, 2003 Theatrical Release Date: 1986 Studio: Walt Disney Video
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Inspired by "Gulliver's Travels," the fantasy-adventure Castle in the Sky 1986 was Hayao Miyazaki's third feature, and helped to establish his reputation as a visionary in both Japan and America. The orphan Sheeta inherited a mysterious crystal that links her to the legendary sky-kingdom of Laputa. With the help of resourceful Pazu and a rollicking band of sky pirates, she makes her way to the ruins of the once-great civilization. Sheeta and Pazu must outwit the evil Muska, who plans to use Laputa's science to make himself ruler of the world. Castle echoes elements in Myazaki's earlier Nausicaä, and anticipates imagery in his later films, from My Neighbor Totoro to Spirited Away. Disney's new English dub, which features Anna Paquin Sheeta, James Van Der Beek Pazu, and Cloris Leachman pirate matriarch Dola, is lively and close in tone to the original Japanese, if a bit talkier. The exciting flying sequences, appealing characters, and fantastic vision of a steam-powered future Jules Verne might have imagined make Castle in the Sky a must-have for fans of Japanese and Western animation. Unrated: suitable for ages 10 and older: violence --Charles Solomon
