Pazu’s life changes when he meets Sheeta, a girl whom pirates are chasing for her crystal amulet, which has the potential to locate Laputa, a legendary castle floating in the sky.
Back at the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016, I was in the middle of my “Watch all the IMDb Top 250 movies”, so naturally, I got into a streak of randomly ordered Studio Ghibli, and “Castle in the Sky” was one of them. It’s a very interesting thing how Hayao Miyazaki is basically the King Midas of animation and everything that he touches becomes gold, “Castle in the Sky” ending up to be simply a masterpiece. Fantasy, sci-fi, retro-futurism and steampunk/cyberpunk are mixed with a great soundtrack and together they tell a beautiful story. I love the motifs of huge flying megastructures in sci-fi and fantasy creations and this theme has been tackled in different ways over the centuries, in all formats, but Miyazaki wraps this up beautifully in a classic Studio Ghibli masterpiece. Six popcorns.
