LYCOS RETRIEVER
Hayao Miyazaki
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There are memorable automatons in Miyazaki's second feature, too, seemingly designed to resemble curvy old-model cars. (The robots' eye piece looks the grill of an Edsel turned sideways.) Laputa: The Castle in the Sky (Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa, 1984), with its faux-Victorian embellishments, its droll supporting cast of chortling air pirates, and its exhilarating flying scenes, may be Miyazaki's most purely enjoyable movie. Porco Rosso (Kuremi no Bura, 1991), about a jaunty pig who becomes a flying ace, is said to contain Miyazaki's most glorious aerial sequences. But it would have to be pretty spectacular to match the giddy fun of Laputa, which spends it entire last hour gallivanting through the clouds.
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