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Not as good as his best work. I own Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, and Kiki's Delivery Service, so I expected more of the same. This is not in the same body of work. While the animation is beautiful, and the heroine brave and resourceful, it is a cautionary tale of man's destruction of his environment. There are endless war sequences which I find boring as an adult, and which are entirely inappropriate for children. In fact, the entire film should not be watched by anyone under eleven years of age. There are bloody stabbings, the murder of an old man, the grappling of insects which children will find "cute," and one of the main characters is a multiple amputee. It is good, but not great, and doesn't bear multiple viewings, as some here suggest.