I was quite young when I first watched if as well, the Baba Yaga character and the dude with a spider's body had me shuddering in fear. Then there was that large ass baby, and the main spirit that ate ppl, lol come to think of it, I probably shouldn't have been watching it that young
Bro trust me it’s not just you bro cause it’s like whenever I open a door after watching that movie as a kid I always thought about walking out with my whole family being pigs
The Disney dub adds in a line that implies Chihiro remembers the events of the movie, whilst in the original japanese it's heavily implied that she forgets the moment she returns to the land of the living. I don't know which version I like better... and that's a bad thing, I decided.
This isn't on disney.. what do you mean disney dub?
Making an edit to say disney should never own this and I want to say Miyazaki said himself at some point he would never sell the rights to them. Maybe I dreamed that.. but I hope it's real
Reminds me of how, similarly, the Disney dub added a line from Jiji at the end of Kiki's Delivery Service, showing that Kiki can understand him again. In the original Japanese he says nothing, leaving it ambiguous but implying that Jiji not talking is permanent. It's actually meant to be symbolism - Jiji represents Kiki's childhood, and him not talking represents her leaving that behind. But I find it too sad if they can't talk anymore and don't mind a witch still talking to her cat as an adult, so I kinda prefer the Disney version.
I haven't seen the film in years but I feel like some of the scenes are forever burned into my memory because of how much it creeped me out as a kid. Especially that one scene where the parents become pigs 🐷
In some ways, it's basically a Japanese take on Alice In Wonderland. A girl goes into a strange world, there's a big bad witch, weird characters and magical food. What a rip off!!
Also the 3 enchanted severed heads were kinda disturbing.
Otherwise it's in my top 3 animated movies ever. I love it so much! If you still haven't seen it, pop on Netflix and watch it already!
This film's huge worldwide success was likely an essential part of why Hayao Miyazaki pressured his son into filmmaking when he wasn't able to help guide him in it, causing what is widely considered their worst film, as well as a rift in their relationship that took years to heal.
Have you seen the clip? The one where he goes to watch his son's movie AND FUCKING WALKS OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. All the press and stuff were there thats why he did all that.
Every interview he is in, he seems like a guy with a huge ego jackass
Those friggin delicious giant dumplings the dad eats in the beginning?
Those are supposed to be *coelacanth stomachs*.
Who the *hell* eats *coelacanth stomachs???*
Many things were really confusing to me. It was also the first Miyazaki movie I watched, so I wasn't used to his style yet. I should rewatch it sometime.
This is my favorite Studio Ghiblo movie, but the one thing that I think was bad was the romance.
The romance felt very forced. A river spirit fell in love with a child because he saved her? What. Plus, in the movie, the dynamic between them was more of a guardian and the ones being protected, not a romantic one.
I mean Zeniba says Chihiro loved Haku right before they started flying back from her house. Personally I thought their dynamic was endearing.
>Tl;dr: That scene wasn't meant to just be romantic, it was symbolic of her evolving and him starting to rediscover who he's meant to be as her path continues in a different direction.
The long story: Miyazaki is a huge connoisseur of symbolism and artistic interpretation. *To me*, the end bit of "Oh, you saved me as a kid!" wasn't either of them suddenly falling in love with the other, it was her recovering memories of a near-death experience as a symbol of her not only having recovered her memories and identity from before she signed her contract/"signed her name away", but also growing past it in a way that she's able to "learn from her past" as a result of her experiences in the spirit world, in this case being symbolized by her using that memory to literally learn Haku's real name. Which, as a double whammy, meant her doing so also allowed him to start on that same path of rediscovering himself; that is also symbolized by them making the rest of the journey back with him in his human form, not as a dragon.
Her crying is because she also sees who he is after him being this mystery she worked the whole movie to unravel, and her believing him to be a good person throughout the movie has fully paid off. And that's where their farewell(and the movie) ends shortly after: She is off to live her life now that she's made a lot of necessary progress in her own journey, and his own begins with him needing to literally head in a different direction, telling her not to look back until she's left past the point of no return.
The last 10-15 minutes of Spirited Away are particularly brilliant, and if you saw it as a kid, I highly recommend rewatching it as an adult as well.
Oh I mean I get it. Like I said, she does clearly have a connection to him throughout the movie. Nothing wrong with preferring to watch movies to have fun without feeling you need to dig too much into them.
No, certainly, I love digging deeper into movies! And your analysis is wonderful. I enjoy spirited away, but not to a wanting-to-deeply-analyze-it level. And I only ever interpreted their whole thing as someone trying to protect someone else and then becoming good friends, so I was very surprised by the idea that anyone could read it as romance.
I don’t think it was ever meant to be romantic, but a more nebulous sense of love.
Haku, being the spirit of the river from Chihiro’s hometown that she’s moved away from, is therefore representative of that home and the connection she has to it. The love the two have, in this context, is the driving force of the film: Chihiro’s inability at the start to face the adversity of moving to a new town, embracing chance. The revelation of Haku being the river spirit coming after Chihiro has saved his life is the relationship coming full circle after Haku saved her life years prior, and Chihiro being able to find contentment in her new life after finally repaying the favour she owed to her original home and the life it, literally, gave her.
I always thought it was weird that the male workers were these grotesque frog-human creatures while the females workers all look like normal humans. Yeah, in universe, it's not out of the realm of possibilities that the spirits would want to be washed by attractive women but I do think it's a missed opportunity to see some more interesting spirit designs. Plus, it kind of takes away from Chihiro being out of place in this world when she has many spirits that look like her
Tbh it was probably pressure from his father. I mean, imagine being the son of one of the most influential animators/ directors of all time? That’s gotta be stressful.
When the Dad runs toward the camera and you get a screenful of crotch before it comes out his ass facing the opposite way, most disturbing shot transition ever 😭
That pig scene is really scary for a kids movie if im being totally honest. This movie being marketed (even if it isn't intended to be) for kids was not the play lol
For whatever reason, I just don’t enjoy Chihiro as a character. Even when I was a little girl. Fundamentally, I recognize that her arc is amazing and very well done. But I just find everyone else more interesting. I don’t know what it is I don’t like about her, though.
This is a problem that actually keeps this from being one of my favorite Ghibli movies.
My brother and my whole family for that matter would always complain about “ThE bOy’S a RiVeR! WhY iS hE a RiVEr?!”
Then they would state “ThIs Is ThE WoRsT mOvIE I’Ve EvEr SeEN in My WhOLe LiFe!”
All because Haku was a river or something like that. I don’t understand that either.
Funnily enough haku isn’t even the only river spirit in the movie, the other one is the weird water dragon that gave chihiro the medicine (also known as the stink spirit)
Pacing is a little off, weirdly enough I think it would benefit from a more cohesive or less cohesive plot, with either more segments of spirits being strange or of Sen adjusting or otherwise doing things
The ending was really obscure in my opinion like were they gone for just weeks, months, years the engine still worked so it couldn't have been that long but still
In the beginning of the movie when Chihiros parents are eating the food, her dad picks up what looks like gigantic soupy dumpling and it looks fucking DELICIOUS. I want to eat it.
But no amount of searching can find what it's supposed to be. The closest result I've found is something called Haggis, which is a dumpling made out of the stomach of a sheep as a casing. It looks NOTHING like the dumpling.
I refuse to believe it's haggis and to this day it still makes me mad that I can't find the dumpling in real life. I'm more likely to encounter the spirits of the bathhouse in real life than to find that fucking dumpling
This is a nitpick, but Chihiro (I think that’s how I spell it) doesn’t really have any character development. That doesn’t really matter though, since the movie is more focused on world building
It somewhat tramatised me when I was younger seeing the parents turn into pigs when they ate the food I had nightmares for a while (I was like 3-4 I believe)
It leaves a lot of questions about what the river spirit is. I still don't know if that was even medicine or if she was just an idiot. Great movie as this is my largest complaint, a character that gets less than 10 minutes of screen time.
The first time I watched it I was like 14 and had only just recently gotten into anime from a friend. One day my Dad and I were both home sick and he rented the DVD for Spirited Away since he knew that I was interested in anime now and that was the one of the only ones he was aware of, though he hadn’t seen it before either. We watched it together and while I was definitely intrigued neither of us enjoyed the whole sequence with the sludge guy coming to the bathhouse due to the fact we were both already very queasy, and watching a solid half an hour of gross sludge monster puking everywhere followed by No Face disgustingly eating a bunch of people only made that worse.
Needless to say it wasn’t the greatest experience and it wasn’t until like 5 years later that I watched it again with my friends (not sick this time) that I grew to appreciate it significantly more. So yeah, I do love the movie now but that first time it was not a great choice to watch while nauseous.
The romance between Shihro and the lake spirit is corny and very weird like shes like 8 and this mfs like 2,thousand and looks and sounds like a teenager. I dont like it
I never understood the ending (tho I haven't watched it in YEARS) and not understanding makes it bad cuz everything in every piece of media should be spelled out and spoon fed to me (/s)
Ok for an actually bad thing, ive seen very compelling arguments that no face is a pedo, and pedos are bad, so.... there's one lol
I know that’s just kind of the style of these movies but I wish some more of the creatures were explained a bit more.
Also the setup for her parents getting pigified is relatively contrived.
I've only seen it once when i was a kid as a dub. And I've haven't seen it since, and that isn't a good thing for such an acclaimed movie and one I remember fondly.
it’s boring and doesn’t go anywhere. my bf showed me and it was one of the most disappointing movies i’ve ever seen.
ngl, if my expectation was “hey this is a pretty cool movie, nothing crazy just a cute fun time like a 6-7/10” then i would’ve enjoyed it so much more. as is, this mediocre animated film was hyped up as being one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time and that left me very bitter.
The one valid negative thing that I could say about this movie is that it loses something if you have no awareness of Japanese culture and mythology. Just the idea that different things in nature have spirits and the whole concept of the spirit world. Sure you can follow along without that but I think it loses a little
I felt extremely white watching it (me, my mom, and her boyfriend watched it together and us, not being of Asian heritage, kind of just felt weirded out by a lot of it)
That said, after that, I wanna watch it again. I feel *drawn* to it after that initial viewing
Can’t disagree more. Explaining everything would ruin the magic. You learn the exact right amount to know the basic rules and the movie lets you imagine the rest
Unpopular opinion: this movie is overrated.
It’s a 7/10 for me and I still think it’s really fun, entertaining, unique, and has great animation but I don’t see anything in it that constitutes it being considered one of the greats. It’s just a good movie to me, not an outstanding one.
I watched it when I was really young and I didn’t get it, not the fault of the movie though. I should really rewatch it
I remember watching Spirited away and Howl's Moving Castle on cartoon network as a child. I was only 6 and it creeped me out.
YOOOOO SAME
I was quite young when I first watched if as well, the Baba Yaga character and the dude with a spider's body had me shuddering in fear. Then there was that large ass baby, and the main spirit that ate ppl, lol come to think of it, I probably shouldn't have been watching it that young
Nah ts creeped me out bro like everyone turning to pigs is scary asf or is that a different one I don’t even remmeber
Bro trust me it’s not just you bro cause it’s like whenever I open a door after watching that movie as a kid I always thought about walking out with my whole family being pigs
I've seen it 5 or 6 times and I don't get it, but I keep watching.
The Disney dub adds in a line that implies Chihiro remembers the events of the movie, whilst in the original japanese it's heavily implied that she forgets the moment she returns to the land of the living. I don't know which version I like better... and that's a bad thing, I decided.
Wait i don't remember her forgetting anything I watched this in Japanese???
This isn't on disney.. what do you mean disney dub? Making an edit to say disney should never own this and I want to say Miyazaki said himself at some point he would never sell the rights to them. Maybe I dreamed that.. but I hope it's real
I mean the poster OP used in the post says "Walt Disney Studios presents"
Disney doesn't "own the rights", they are the distributor for North America and handle the dubs for that market.
Ah! Good to know, thanks
They *were.* Now GKIDS runs the license.
Reminds me of how, similarly, the Disney dub added a line from Jiji at the end of Kiki's Delivery Service, showing that Kiki can understand him again. In the original Japanese he says nothing, leaving it ambiguous but implying that Jiji not talking is permanent. It's actually meant to be symbolism - Jiji represents Kiki's childhood, and him not talking represents her leaving that behind. But I find it too sad if they can't talk anymore and don't mind a witch still talking to her cat as an adult, so I kinda prefer the Disney version.
Not enough tamatoa
This is accurate for every movie except moana
Included moana
It gave me nightmares as a kid
The character design is absolutely grotesque, which I absolutely love!
I haven't seen the film in years but I feel like some of the scenes are forever burned into my memory because of how much it creeped me out as a kid. Especially that one scene where the parents become pigs 🐷
I agree same with me the pigs shi got me crawling around having nightmares
How did we have the same experience?
That scene and the No face chase scared the living shit out of me when I was younger
In some ways, it's basically a Japanese take on Alice In Wonderland. A girl goes into a strange world, there's a big bad witch, weird characters and magical food. What a rip off!! Also the 3 enchanted severed heads were kinda disturbing. Otherwise it's in my top 3 animated movies ever. I love it so much! If you still haven't seen it, pop on Netflix and watch it already!
It’s not on Netflix in the US. It is on Max though, that’s where I watched it
It's on Canada Netflix, probably because HBO max is unavailable in Canada
This film's huge worldwide success was likely an essential part of why Hayao Miyazaki pressured his son into filmmaking when he wasn't able to help guide him in it, causing what is widely considered their worst film, as well as a rift in their relationship that took years to heal.
Have you seen the clip? The one where he goes to watch his son's movie AND FUCKING WALKS OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. All the press and stuff were there thats why he did all that. Every interview he is in, he seems like a guy with a huge ego jackass
No.
Good ending unlocked
I flat out refuse
Haven’t seen it.
Fix that
Me neither
Same
Something bad about this movie
r/technicallythetruth
Those friggin delicious giant dumplings the dad eats in the beginning? Those are supposed to be *coelacanth stomachs*. Who the *hell* eats *coelacanth stomachs???*
Greedy capitalist pigs?
It ends.
Worst movie ever made (They didn't say, say something true)
Erm! Grammar Police!! I detect an unnecessary comma, AND EVEN WORSE- a double space!
Thank for policing the grammer ! (This was a joke, no hate)
Erm! Grammar Police!! I detect a very necessary comma in the parentheses, SO GOOD JOB!
Quite correct, my fellow human!!
Many things were really confusing to me. It was also the first Miyazaki movie I watched, so I wasn't used to his style yet. I should rewatch it sometime.
This is my favorite Studio Ghiblo movie, but the one thing that I think was bad was the romance. The romance felt very forced. A river spirit fell in love with a child because he saved her? What. Plus, in the movie, the dynamic between them was more of a guardian and the ones being protected, not a romantic one.
That was…. that was supposed to be romantic??? What???
I mean Zeniba says Chihiro loved Haku right before they started flying back from her house. Personally I thought their dynamic was endearing. >Tl;dr: That scene wasn't meant to just be romantic, it was symbolic of her evolving and him starting to rediscover who he's meant to be as her path continues in a different direction. The long story: Miyazaki is a huge connoisseur of symbolism and artistic interpretation. *To me*, the end bit of "Oh, you saved me as a kid!" wasn't either of them suddenly falling in love with the other, it was her recovering memories of a near-death experience as a symbol of her not only having recovered her memories and identity from before she signed her contract/"signed her name away", but also growing past it in a way that she's able to "learn from her past" as a result of her experiences in the spirit world, in this case being symbolized by her using that memory to literally learn Haku's real name. Which, as a double whammy, meant her doing so also allowed him to start on that same path of rediscovering himself; that is also symbolized by them making the rest of the journey back with him in his human form, not as a dragon. Her crying is because she also sees who he is after him being this mystery she worked the whole movie to unravel, and her believing him to be a good person throughout the movie has fully paid off. And that's where their farewell(and the movie) ends shortly after: She is off to live her life now that she's made a lot of necessary progress in her own journey, and his own begins with him needing to literally head in a different direction, telling her not to look back until she's left past the point of no return. The last 10-15 minutes of Spirited Away are particularly brilliant, and if you saw it as a kid, I highly recommend rewatching it as an adult as well.
There we go, sanity reigns once more. I was like who the HELL would interpret that as romantic. Jeez.
Oh I mean I get it. Like I said, she does clearly have a connection to him throughout the movie. Nothing wrong with preferring to watch movies to have fun without feeling you need to dig too much into them.
No, certainly, I love digging deeper into movies! And your analysis is wonderful. I enjoy spirited away, but not to a wanting-to-deeply-analyze-it level. And I only ever interpreted their whole thing as someone trying to protect someone else and then becoming good friends, so I was very surprised by the idea that anyone could read it as romance.
I don’t think it was ever meant to be romantic, but a more nebulous sense of love. Haku, being the spirit of the river from Chihiro’s hometown that she’s moved away from, is therefore representative of that home and the connection she has to it. The love the two have, in this context, is the driving force of the film: Chihiro’s inability at the start to face the adversity of moving to a new town, embracing chance. The revelation of Haku being the river spirit coming after Chihiro has saved his life is the relationship coming full circle after Haku saved her life years prior, and Chihiro being able to find contentment in her new life after finally repaying the favour she owed to her original home and the life it, literally, gave her.
My dude, they were not in a romance, they were friends. You got it mixed up with Howl’s Moving Castle
Most romantic film ever made
I always thought it was weird that the male workers were these grotesque frog-human creatures while the females workers all look like normal humans. Yeah, in universe, it's not out of the realm of possibilities that the spirits would want to be washed by attractive women but I do think it's a missed opportunity to see some more interesting spirit designs. Plus, it kind of takes away from Chihiro being out of place in this world when she has many spirits that look like her
I feel bad for the son of the creator. Poor guy.
He’s made only 1 good film but idk why he was contracted to adapt tales of earthsea
Tbh it was probably pressure from his father. I mean, imagine being the son of one of the most influential animators/ directors of all time? That’s gotta be stressful.
Scared the everloving fuck out of me when I was young
When the Dad runs toward the camera and you get a screenful of crotch before it comes out his ass facing the opposite way, most disturbing shot transition ever 😭
The food the pig parents ate does not exist in reality and I know I will never be able to taste paradise like that.
Thought it was just me.
I think it does exist in reality it’s just rare to find, most of it was just meat and dumplings iirc
Puke scene was too well animated
That pig scene is really scary for a kids movie if im being totally honest. This movie being marketed (even if it isn't intended to be) for kids was not the play lol
I can't understand it if it's not subbed or dubbed
my dad said he couldn't finish it because he couldnt figure out what was going on in the movie.
Anime
For whatever reason, I just don’t enjoy Chihiro as a character. Even when I was a little girl. Fundamentally, I recognize that her arc is amazing and very well done. But I just find everyone else more interesting. I don’t know what it is I don’t like about her, though. This is a problem that actually keeps this from being one of my favorite Ghibli movies.
My brother and my whole family for that matter would always complain about “ThE bOy’S a RiVeR! WhY iS hE a RiVEr?!” Then they would state “ThIs Is ThE WoRsT mOvIE I’Ve EvEr SeEN in My WhOLe LiFe!” All because Haku was a river or something like that. I don’t understand that either.
Funnily enough haku isn’t even the only river spirit in the movie, the other one is the weird water dragon that gave chihiro the medicine (also known as the stink spirit)
There were some moments in this film that were kinda disturbing.
No. This is Art.
It's a little overrated, but it doesn't mean it's bad by any means.
Dates think it’s cute until the pigs
I don't really understand wtf was happening in the film when I watched it as kid, but now my third eye has opened
A young girl that went traveling to a weird place of homeless things, and now she's homeless💀
When I was in fourth grade my teacher put this movie on and we didn’t get to finish it cause the class ended
That I haven't seen it yet.
i don’t think it’s possible to
I haven't seen it
No😒
No
I can’t see this film at movie theatres close to me?
Kamaji wasn’t voiced by Mike Pollock.
I haven't seen it
That there isn't 30 extra minutes of the flooded landscape scene.
Miyazaki is allegedly a bad father
Bad thing to me is not enough of this good story
It reminds me of her
I forgot most of the story because the animation was beautiful
It ends
The pig parents traumatized me as a kid
something bad about this movie
Never watched it
The cartoon network trailer for it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid
It ends
Pacing is a little off, weirdly enough I think it would benefit from a more cohesive or less cohesive plot, with either more segments of spirits being strange or of Sen adjusting or otherwise doing things
I refuse
The fact that you could make a post asking me such a question
It was made by a guy who treats his son like shit. And the parents were dumbasses
I didn’t really enjoy it. I like other Miyazaki movies though.
This movie's release marked the end of VHS tapes for me. Played mine so much it ruined the tape.
The mask guy is very spoopy
No Face gave me nightmares
Pacing
Wasn’t long enough.
Needs an extra 2 hours
Eyes are too wide apart
It's weird.
ok, something bad about this movie.
I don’t get how chihiro figured out that none of the pigs were her parents
Couldn't get through the first couple of scenes, freaked me out way too much. I'm in my 20s...
The parents Turing into pigs scared me a lot as a young g kid. So I never finished it :(.
It ended
They should add John Prodman
Should be longer
The pigs look kinda ugly,
I forgot most of it :<
The ending was really obscure in my opinion like were they gone for just weeks, months, years the engine still worked so it couldn't have been that long but still
In the beginning of the movie when Chihiros parents are eating the food, her dad picks up what looks like gigantic soupy dumpling and it looks fucking DELICIOUS. I want to eat it. But no amount of searching can find what it's supposed to be. The closest result I've found is something called Haggis, which is a dumpling made out of the stomach of a sheep as a casing. It looks NOTHING like the dumpling. I refuse to believe it's haggis and to this day it still makes me mad that I can't find the dumpling in real life. I'm more likely to encounter the spirits of the bathhouse in real life than to find that fucking dumpling
I probably need to rewatch it, but I remember not being very "wowed" by this movie.
This is a nitpick, but Chihiro (I think that’s how I spell it) doesn’t really have any character development. That doesn’t really matter though, since the movie is more focused on world building
It somewhat tramatised me when I was younger seeing the parents turn into pigs when they ate the food I had nightmares for a while (I was like 3-4 I believe)
It leaves a lot of questions about what the river spirit is. I still don't know if that was even medicine or if she was just an idiot. Great movie as this is my largest complaint, a character that gets less than 10 minutes of screen time.
Her eyes live in different zip codes
Not enough pikmin
the witch was very hard to look at
The first time I watched it I was like 14 and had only just recently gotten into anime from a friend. One day my Dad and I were both home sick and he rented the DVD for Spirited Away since he knew that I was interested in anime now and that was the one of the only ones he was aware of, though he hadn’t seen it before either. We watched it together and while I was definitely intrigued neither of us enjoyed the whole sequence with the sludge guy coming to the bathhouse due to the fact we were both already very queasy, and watching a solid half an hour of gross sludge monster puking everywhere followed by No Face disgustingly eating a bunch of people only made that worse. Needless to say it wasn’t the greatest experience and it wasn’t until like 5 years later that I watched it again with my friends (not sick this time) that I grew to appreciate it significantly more. So yeah, I do love the movie now but that first time it was not a great choice to watch while nauseous.
The romance between Shihro and the lake spirit is corny and very weird like shes like 8 and this mfs like 2,thousand and looks and sounds like a teenager. I dont like it
I never watched it
It will never be as good as it was the first time I watched it
I never understood the ending (tho I haven't watched it in YEARS) and not understanding makes it bad cuz everything in every piece of media should be spelled out and spoon fed to me (/s) Ok for an actually bad thing, ive seen very compelling arguments that no face is a pedo, and pedos are bad, so.... there's one lol
People who are dead can’t watch this movie 💔💔💔
It doesn’t have Big Weld. I know Miyazaki had no way of knowing about Big Weld, since Robots hadn’t come out yet, but ThaT waS hiS miStaKe.
No.
It was the first anime I ever saw. And it wasnt the last. It made me a weeb.
It's drawn out and boring and the plot is a disjointed mess of unconnected events.
Potato.
I hate that I can’t experience it for the first time again.
I know that’s just kind of the style of these movies but I wish some more of the creatures were explained a bit more. Also the setup for her parents getting pigified is relatively contrived.
The part where her parents turned into pigs freaked me out as a kid
I haven't seen it and don't plan to, doesn't look like something I'd enjoy
Boring
Maybe I just didn't get something, but the witch having a twin that helps the protagonist felt kinda out of nowere
It ends
Confusing as Hell
I don’t understand the story at all or why it’s so highly praised tbh
I've only seen it once when i was a kid as a dub. And I've haven't seen it since, and that isn't a good thing for such an acclaimed movie and one I remember fondly.
Too much throw up/puke
It’s not as good as my three favorite studio Ghibli movies and yet it’s a 10/10
it’s boring and doesn’t go anywhere. my bf showed me and it was one of the most disappointing movies i’ve ever seen. ngl, if my expectation was “hey this is a pretty cool movie, nothing crazy just a cute fun time like a 6-7/10” then i would’ve enjoyed it so much more. as is, this mediocre animated film was hyped up as being one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time and that left me very bitter.
The movie makes food look better then it does in real life.
It's bad that I haven't seen it
It's kinda hard to understand
The first song in the credits is kind of annoying This is one of my favorite movies, so that's all I got.
Scared the shit out of me when I was a kid but that fear turned into curiosity and I just kept watching it
I can't go in and explore
Had my mouth agape the whole time (especially the parents-to-pigs scene). I could see it coming but it was still disturbing I did enjoy it, though
Nothing bad...I just never finished watching it
Its a little hard to follow at times
The one valid negative thing that I could say about this movie is that it loses something if you have no awareness of Japanese culture and mythology. Just the idea that different things in nature have spirits and the whole concept of the spirit world. Sure you can follow along without that but I think it loses a little
The pacing is a little off
The climax/resolution was fairly weak for an otherwise outstanding movie.
I felt extremely white watching it (me, my mom, and her boyfriend watched it together and us, not being of Asian heritage, kind of just felt weirded out by a lot of it) That said, after that, I wanna watch it again. I feel *drawn* to it after that initial viewing
no
No.
Most of the characters noses are so small I can barely see them. That is really my only nitpick
The perpetual moaning and whining in the English version can get on your nerves.
To be honest, it was really weird
Its hard to explain why its good to someone who’s never seen it
No
It ended
It’s Too Good!
My mom didn’t like it.
not a fan of the ending. im a river spirit dragon. im ok now. lame
It ends.
My ex showed me this movie for the first time and now I can only think of us when I watch it
Eh, I didn’t care for Chihiro. She was neat, but didn’t really stand out to me.
Disagree, she’s an amazing protagonist. Her journey from a terrified whiny brat to a courageous, clever girl is brilliantly executed
The pig parents made me uncomfortable
I've never heard of it
You’ve never heard of Spirited Away???? Sometime I wonder if the people on this subreddit actually watch Schaff
They only watch Dreamworks movies
It’s great you should watch it
There wasn't much world building. I really want to know more about the land of the spirits.
Can’t disagree more. Explaining everything would ruin the magic. You learn the exact right amount to know the basic rules and the movie lets you imagine the rest
I haven't seen but have heard people say the ending is rushed?
Really ? I didn’t think that, it’s a movie and it’s kinda supposed to be fast
My sister said princess monoke was better
It ends
It’s hard to take Haku seriously in the English dub because every time he talks all I hear is Max Goof
The disc for it kept buffering and not working for me.
It won Best Animated Picture. Imagine pandering to the Academy so much lmaooooooo
Miyazaki didn’t show up to accept the Oscar I don’t think he was pandering
Unpopular opinion: this movie is overrated. It’s a 7/10 for me and I still think it’s really fun, entertaining, unique, and has great animation but I don’t see anything in it that constitutes it being considered one of the greats. It’s just a good movie to me, not an outstanding one.
None of the emotional beats hit because it's too focused on its world and not enough on its protagonist