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Written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, comes "Laputa: Castle in the Sky" The first first film produced and released by Studio Ghibli. There is an intro showing off scenes of massive flying civilations, them crashing into the earth, and people leaving them like rats fleaning a sinking ship...after that is out of the way we get to the real movie. We see an airship of what we soon learn to be pirates, airpirates! Oh yeah as they launch an attack against a much larger passenger airship. There target a girl with a special stone on her necklace! During the attck she climbs out of the airship, only to fall to her horrible death, thus ending the movie rather quickly. Oh wait...no. Instead as she plumpets to what should be her death the stone on her necklace glows brightly as she gently floats down, much to the amazement of a young boy who is both a minor and a miner who runs over to grab her on a no OSHA stile platform over the open pit of a mine. This movie does I admit have a lot of cliches in it. Magical girl? Check, Fanastic anchient civilation that lasted for centuries before getting destroyed once its rediscovered? Mostly check, some sort of lesson? Check? On the other hand it borderlines on steam punk, has a floating castle, robots, pirates, is a Miyazaki/Ghibli fim, and it has great music. Anyway getting back to the film, its about the last of those floating cities still in existence. The boy's father actully took a picture of it but no one believed him, his son wants to prove his father sane, the pirates want it for the treasure, the military wants it for it's advanaced technology, and a mysterious man wants it for other reasons. This is not a movie for anyone with a fear of heights, or falling! Most of the cities are built right at the edges of canyons, or jutting out of the walls of the canyons, and even the ones at the bottom of them tend to be near large pits. and there is no OSHA! Also the railroad tracks are very shakey, prone to falling apart right after you cross them, and much of pretty much everything is rather old. Well anyways, its a rather good movie, and I think any one who likes steampunk, Miyaki films, or just a good fantasy film should rent this at least!