It features James van der Beek as Pazu, Anna Paquin as Sheeta, Mandy Patinkin as Louie, Cloris Leachman as Dora, and Mark Hamill as Muska. Next, Disney produced and all-new English dub that's heard for the first time on this DVD. For you purists, the original score is preserved on this DVD in the Japanese 2.0 track. It's like you're just getting more of a good thing. Instead of fundamentally changing the impact of his score, he actually made it bigger and better than before. So he went in and re-did his great soundtrack to flesh it out a bit, and the result is excellent. The original score for Laputa was only about an hour long, in a two-hour-plus film. Firstly, they asked Joe Hisaishi to re-score the film. The US DVD release of Laputa is interesting in that Disney has done a couple things to make this English release the best of any that preceded it. Combine all of that with an excellent and memorable Joe Hisaishi score, and you have a jewel of animation.

There's a giant, yet lovable, robot that instantly becomes one of the most memorable characters in the film.

The world of the movie looks to use early 20th Century technology, yet it's filled with these giant airships and flying cities.

This film, as with the ones that followed it ( Mononoke, Spirited Away, etc.), is yet another example of the explosive imagination that Miyazaki has. Countering the long running time (for an animated film) are characters so likable that you never get bored, you always want to see what adventure is next for them right up to the end. At a running time of just over two hours, Castle in the Sky is filled with enough action, enough characters, and enough character development to fill two or three standard Disney animated films. While Pazu wants to hold up the good name of his father, Sheeta holds a secret that links her to Laputa, and treasure hunters pursue the two.

It takes place in a land filled with giant airships and tells the story of Pazu and Sheeta who go on a huge adventure to find the mythical floating city of Laputa. The Movie Castle in the Sky is an epic action-adventure from the premier mind in animation, Hayao Miyazaki. Along with Spirited Away and Kiki's Delivery Service, Laputa is finally seeing a Region 1 DVD release as part of Disney's first wave of two-disc Miyazaki titles, and despite being a little slim on the extras it was worth the wait. It's an epic adventure set in an imaginative land, and it also features one of the best Joe Hisaishi scores. Laputa, or Castle in the Sky was the first Miyazaki film that I can remember seeing.

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