Laputa: Castle In The Sky [DVD]

It needs a little patience as it starts and finishes in very different places. But the film is an absolute joy for the eyes and the imagination

Review of the film: Masterpiece adventure, one of Miyazaki's top three. 10/10[I personally prefer the japanese audio in all animes as american english to me isn't suited at all to asian sensibility, and this is what I review though I tested the english audio. I found Pazu's american voice to be particularly irritating and badly acted. Also note that in ten minutes soundcheck I already found some censorship, such as"If my head were any harder, you could use it as a cannonball" for the original "My head is harder than my boss's fists". Just a side-note for die-hard fans - ignore if it's for your children, obviously]TECHNICAL STUFF:This offering comes up in a blu-ray type box encased in a pretty sleeve. A very beautiful face is printed onto both discs. (same face for both discs)Specs are as follows:Blu-Ray: HD standard, 1080p, 16x9 widescreen. Audio 5.1 LPCM English, 2.0 LPCM japanese + english subtitles (subtitles white with black outline. Big enough and visible, hi-resolution) Subtitles can be turned off from the remote, though not from the menu.DVD: Colour PAL 16x9 anapmorphic. Audio 2.0 stereo English, Japanese + english subtitles, Japanese + hard of hearing english subtitles (yellow subs, black outline, big and ugly - typewriter style, very visible) , Region 2. Subtitles can be turned off from the remote, though not from the menu.Blu-Ray quality: Excellent. No blocks, no noise. Beautiful job, and probably as precise as the original handdrawings were themselves.The menu is simple and very pretty (press enter while in setup to change audio to japanese, instead of up and down buttons, can be a bit confusing) Bonuses:- Storyboards- Promotional video: not a very promising title but actually contains excerpts of interviews with Miyazaki in '86 as well as a few others in the team, so worth watching. All were very young looking. Too short- Behind the microphone: 4 minutes of "interviews" with the american cast. Mark Hamill is the only one with anything remotely useful to say and since the whole thing is 4 minutes only, you can guess how little that is ;)- Behind the studio. 4 interviews of about 2 minutes each, 3 of them with Miyazaki. Too short and always interesting. Mentions of the Rhondda valley, Jules Verne, Swift, and even Superman! - The world of Laputa - Creating Castle in the Sky - Character sketches - Producer's perspective: Suzuki's first meeting with Miyazaki. I don't want to give it away but I found it hilarious and is a must see- Textless opening and ending credits: Not much in itself but they are really beautiful and artistic and are really worth watching without the stream of text to detract. The opening credits remind a lot of Terry Gilliam.- Original japanese trailers-Studio Ghibli collection trailersDVD quality:The credits and menus are mediocre quality, blurry with visible interlacing artifacts and noise around the text, and I was fearing the worst but the actual film is in fact a very good quality for a DVD. There is no blocking and it's quite crisp, (for a DVD, of course). Only motion sequences feel blurry, though of course there are a lot of them. But they've made a real effort to present something decent.The bonuses are as follows:- textless credits (see above)- Original trailers- Ghibli trailers- Alternative angle storyboards- "history of Castle in the Sky", consisting of 2 minutes of watching drawings and final designs on a musical background.All in all I feel this is a very good quality product, and care and love has been lavished onto it to restore and enhance the image. I recommend buying it, if only to ensure that Ghibli will carry on producing quality blu-rays by showing our support.

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This was also the first anime i ever saw, although I did not realise it at the time. It is a fantastic fantasy story that was a much loved piece of my childhood and still is.However any of you out there that remeber this from when it was first shown, I warn you this is not the same version. I was so excited that film was finally to be released onto DVD but it has been changed by disney.The film has been redubbed, rescripted and even the music redone in places, much to my dismay. The script although perhaps a little clearer on some plot points is somewhat idiotic in places, treating the viewer as if they have no brain and cannot work things out for themselves. The plot really isn't that complicated, even for children! The voices are further not as well fitting to the roles. Mark Hamill's Mushka for example just isn't as creepy and evil as it was in the original dubbing and for me James Van Der Beek just doesn't work as Patsu.You must not mistake this as a critique of the film. I love this film and always will. However I feel i should warn all those old enough to have seen the original (or even still possess it on a tatty old tape as myself!) that it is not as they remember. For all those new to the film it is still a stunning piece of anime and a wonderful story to be enjoyed by all.

Brilliant.

not only dose this anime from studio ghibli have a great voice cast the story it self is brilliantas all ways with hayo miyazaki you find his finger prints all over this filma story about pazu and is friend sheeta and there journey to find laputa .. the castle in the sky lost of an age and full of wondershold on to your sofa as this story twists at a fast pace and don't make up your mind on the cast too soon as you will find outstudio ghibli are one of the animation wonders of the world not allowing them self to be defined to the new age of computers .. there animation might not be cgi 100% but the story hayo miyazaki and his people tell us far surpass run of the mill animationhe is in my words a true artist and visionary in the area of not only animation for children but stories that will live with us for the rest of our lives ..

I remembered this film when it was shown on TV in the late 1980s, I recollected small parts of it, like the lush colours, the airships, the floating island and the robot. It took literally YEARS for me to find out what film it was once I had grown up. Once the internet came to full fruition, I discovered that Laputa was the film which captured my imagination as a child. At that time, there was no indication that the film was to be released in VHS form (DVDs were a rarity!). But now all that has changed, and Miyazaki's collection has made its way onto the scene. And they couldn't have come too soon!Laputa takes you into Miyazaki's inventive and imaginative world of steam and air, a world that seems far preferable to our own. The young heroin plays his (and her) parts again, as the re-curring theme in all of Miyazaki's creations, but in doing so, it allows his films to touch your own inner-child.Although not quite as encompassing and thorough as some of his later work, such as Spirited Away, Laputa serves up adequate action and adventure to keep adult and infant alike amused. I leant this DVD to a colleague to show her daughter, and when she brough it back to me, she said that she really enjoyed the film herself, and her daughter thought the film was "lovely!".So there you have it. A "lovely" film.Get it.