Of the few Ghibli films I've experienced this one has become my favorite! It is a fast paced highly adventurous fantasy world that is richly textured with creative and thoughtful plotlines with conscientious values that are not often seen in children's films!

What a joy to find a children's film that isn't dumbed down! Hayao Miyazaki is one of the very few who respect children's intellect and capacity to understand and does not simply deliver the status quo he challenges them!

Beautiful animation!

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Recommended by Viktor Prentovski via my list "Movie Request Hotline"
A fabulous film! Thank You so much Viktor!
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“its about the little girl and the little boy that go float”

No film makes me want to get behind a camera, draw, write or simply create something as much as Castle in the Sky. If your kid ever says they want to be a filmmaker, show them this, may give the inspiration to pursue that dream.

Can nature and technology coexist, yes it can.

Is Laputa real, what lies behind the clouds?

A triumph in animation and adventure, Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky is as formidable as Indiana Jones in terms of 80’s action. Boasting painterly images and music that flies through my spirit. Ingeniously constructed as all Ghibli films but even more so here there is a palpable feeling of courage and valor in its conception and achievement.

Unclouded imagination.

even though i’ve already seen this film hundreds of times, i feel as though i only now truly felt awe during the scene where pazu and sheeta are exploring laputa for the first time. i think this must be what the people who offed themselves after seeing avatar felt like

My least favorite for now..

It's okay to lose if you're enemy loses? Legacy only has worth in the hands of the worthy? I truly don't know what message to distill from this movie. And that's okay, but I always expect a lot from Miyazaki.

The pacing problems that haunt Howl's Moving Castle also has Castle in the Sky in a vice like grip. It starts out promising and just collapses for an hour. The problem is that Miyazaki doesn't use that hour to tell you what's going on. It's just a characters running around aimlessly, because we only find out what this is all about in the last half hour. So.. Why is this movie 2 hours long?

I liked it, but it is not up to par with Mononoke or Nausicaa.

rip her hair

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

A while back I got that cute-but-lacking special features picture book style blu-ray set of all of Miyazaki's movies (pre-post retirement so at the time it was supposed to be like, the complete set forever, but now How Do You Live? is happening so whoops) and I decided to watch all the Ghibli movies (including non-myazaki) in order of release. I watched Castle of Cagliostro and then got too depressed to watch movies regularly (or like, eat often) for a year and a half. Anyway I'm back on it and this was cute but kind just blew past me in a lot of ways. I wish haircuts were as easy as just two clean gunshots, bam, cute bob. I love those big robot friends.

I had to think about this for a while and considering I'm not quite done yet with Ghibli's whole filmography I probably shouldn't go out on a limb and say this is my favourite of their films, but I honestly can't see it getting much better than this.

This film is scene-for-scene perfection, hitting you with every scenic beat it can reasonably muster, and blasting you with the breeze of adventure that's currently taking place. That along with a lovable cast and beautiful direction made this a flight I didn't want to get off of anytime soon.

The ONLY thing that's stopping me from giving this movie a 5 is probably the villain who is, admittedly, extremely two-dimensional. When you're on a ride like this though, that can easily be forgiven.

it’s fine. i really liked pazu and sheeta’s relationship but idk i got bored of it pretty fast. great animation though (obviously)

A steam-punk, action, adventure, fantasy masterpiece. I never grow tired of Miyazaki’s vivid imagination and story telling.