But this wasn´t the case. When I finished this movie my mind was about to blow trying to compile everything and trying to find a way of understanding this movie because literally in the end there were so many things that I did not understand that I just gave up.
Where do I begin .. this movie does not follow any specific plot line, throughout the entire thing they simply skipped, jumping around developing multiple stories with no conection what so ever and in the end none of it it's explained properly and we end up being compeletly confused about what the fuck just happened.
We have 3 main plot lines here:
- A war between some people (literally the plot moves on because of this war, but they never explained who was figthing and why they were figthing in the first place !)
- Our main protagonist problem (I think Shopie was the main protagonist, but i'm not sure since they really didn´t gave 2 fucks about her)
- Howl's problem and everything related to him.
Only the last one of those 3 gets resolved !! The other 2 are never explained, we do have some development but it's so nasty, so confuse, so out of position that it's safe to say that they never cared about it even though they were crucial for the story and more interesting than the third point.
But wait a second there is more, the last point, Howl's problem, even though it was resolved, it is not explained ! THE FUCK ?? Let me explain. We never know why Howl had that problem, they never told us. What exactly was the relation between him and the other characters? What about Markl, where the fuck he came from? What about Calcifer ? Why he needed him?
The story is so confuse, so nasty that blowed everything up. I could´t stop thinking "why this is happening !! " ; "Why is he still alive?" ; "Why the fuck that old lady wants his heart?" ; "How the fuck was he able to open that portal in the end ?" ; "How exactly opening that portal could resolve the problem?"
I don´t wanna spoil you anything but who watched the movie will understand everything that i'm talking about.
About the art .. it's Ghibli's studios what you were expecting .. 10/10 no doubt. If there is one thing that this movie has to offer, just like "Spirited Away" it's his astonishing art. Everything made so perfectly well.. Howl's castle by itself is enough to make fate series look like a floppy cartoon. How far can they go, how much detail can they put into something, how well an animation can be made. This movie will show that there is no limit for that, you can always make things a litle bit better.
The backgrouds, the foregrounds, the animations, everything looked just great. The movie may be weak but for sure the animation makes up for it.
The super detailed backgrounds makes you pay attention to them. Makes you stare at it, noticing every single thingl. It's beyond amazing, I have no words to describe what I felt while I was enjoying this amazing art.
The sound tho, was weak. Unlike "Spirited Away" and it's mind blowing tracks, this movie didn´t have anything that called out my attention. Only the final track was appealing. The rest was "normal". Nothing really stood out, which is a shame because when you have such amazing art, you should also get an amazing soundtrack.
About the characters, they are like every other character. We have the main protagonist that cares about everyone. The other protagonist with some dark mystery, the "semi-villian" character, the character that is there just because it is there and some other characters that are there only to light up a bit the comedy of the show. Nothing really great, nothing really bad.
If it wasn´t for the nasty plot that was left withotout any kind of explanation, I would have enjoyed this movie so much ! But well not everything is perfect and we have to deal with it. If I was a kid, I could accept it well because let's face it, kids don´t give 2 fucks about the plot and if it makes sense or not. But I care, and a lot! The art saved the day once more, but I needed more to call this movie a good movie.
Overall, even though the story doesn´t make any sense and only the art was good, I still reccomend this movie. Why? It still managed to create a wonderfull world, the fantasy was amazing. And you just have to see with your own eyes that moving castle ... W O W.
