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Kiki's Delivery Service | Year: 1989 Directed: - Hayao Miyazaki Actors/Actresses: - Minami Takayama - Kirsten Dunst as Kiki - Tess McNeille as Osono - Phil Hartman - Debbie Reynolds Great film for Pagans and their children! There are very few films these days that a Pagan family can feel good about sitting down together to watch. Well, with Kiki's Delivery Service we can add one more to our list. Unlike so many films, the witches in in this fabulously eye-catching Anime are depicted rather closely to what modern Witches are. There is still that element of fantasy with Kiki flying on her broomstick and being able to verbally talk to her cat, but they are not the primary focus of the film. We even get to see that Kiki's mom is an herbalist hedgewitch. The primary themes here, though are the lesson that true magick comes from within and is reflected in kindness and consideration, dreams and determination. Another lesson offered up in this totally engaging film is that of respect, both for oneself and for others. Overall, the story is both humorous and imaginative. The characters are well-developed and well performed. Kirten Dunst does an outstanding job as Kiki and Phil Hartman's performance as her cat Gigi is a pure delight. There's even a wonderful Earth Mother insprired character named Osono, who helps young Kiki find her place in the world through friendship. I feel this movie is a good bet for any Pagan family or even a single Pagan if one happens to enjoy a great animated feature as I do :-). So it is, for a slightly different reason, I will have to agree with another reviewer who stated "five stars are not enough" for this truly wonderful and innovative Anime. Thirteen-year old witch goes to the big city Featuring the vocal talents of Kirsten Dunst, Phil Hartman, Debbie Reynolds and other notables, Kiki's Delivery Service delights both children and adults with a persevering heroine beginning her career as a big city witch, accompanied by her familiar, a wise-cracking black kitten. Bogged down by work and social distractions, Kiki must draw on her inner strength and magical powers to try to save her new friend from near-disaster. My whole family loves this movie, as we do My Neighbor Totoro. With each viewing, we continue to discover new details in the lush backgrounds (you can almost feel the wind in your face when Kiki's airborne, and the European architecture is incredible), and delight in the well-rounded characters. A must-buy for elementary school students and above looking for likeable, sensible female stars! Too bad that America didn't think of this first. How often would you run into a non-american film that is really good, in fact so good, that you might want to add it to your dvd or video collection, that you find what's funny in animated movies isn't aways funny in live action films, even a witch who has to spend a year away from home.<BR>Kiki (Kirsten Dunst) is a 13 years old witch who has to spend a year away from home. Her mother is a witch. But Kiki doesn't know how to fly on a broomstick, her mother hasn't taught her yet. But Kiki has hidden talents that catch the people watching this and maybe her by surpise. Kiki decides to leave home on the perfect full moon. And when does come up, she does just that. So on the night Kiki and her black cat named Jiji (the late Phil Hartman) leave home. Kiki arrives in an un-named town. She does a good deed for a baker named Osono (Tess McNeille). She thanks Kiki by giving a room and lets her use the phone for delivery service and throws in a free breakfast.<BR>First couple of delievers are for a pie and a birthday present from a boy's aunt that can't make the party in time. Kiki agrees to deliver a stuffed black cat that looks like her cat Jiji. But some birds warn them about an upcoming storm and Kiki ingores them. The present is in a bird cage. But somehow the cage gets opened. Kiki delivers it with her cat acting stuffed. Kiki goes off to look for the stuffed cat. It was saved by a painter named Ursula (Janeane Garofalo). She brings it to her cabin in the wood outside the town. Kiki finds it there and askes Ursula for it back to get it delivered. Ursula agress, but the cat's head is falling off. Take a look at what Kiki and Jiji talks baout early in the film: Kiki: Jiji can you turn on the radio, I don't think I can reach it can you do it?<BR>Jiji: Oh grat, now I am sundely the flight attented. Buy Kiki's Delivery Service at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Kiki's Delivery Service Search with the Priority Search Engine on Kiki's Delivery Service This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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