![]() Even the robots of Laputa are simultaneously creepy, destructive, and amazingly gentle beings. For instance, the lovingly grotesque pirate mom Dora (excellently voiced by Cloris Leachman in the English-language version) manages to stride the line between good and evil like the characters in his subsequent works. In this film, it seems that Miyazaki is developing the ecological themes, morally complex characters, and fantastic settings that he often returns to. The design is especially notable when they all get to Laputa, which has a futuristic structure amazingly in tune with the natural surroundings. Being an aviation adventure, a lot of the action takes place in the air, with wildly contrasting flying machines and thousands of propellers. One of the first feature-length animé films from Japan to receive international distribution, the setting has a strange Western feel to it with Industrial Revolution-style machinery and Caucasian-looking main characters. Well-suited to younger audiences, it's a fast-paced adventure story filled with many daring chases, captures, and escapes. Inspired by a passage in Gulliver's Travels about a floating castle, Hayao Miyazaki created the myth of Laputa for Castle in the Sky. ![]()
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