monoceros blogsI finally got to watch Howl's Moving Castle. It's the dubbed version though, but having Batman (Christian Bale) and Emily Mortimer voice the lead parts was quite exciting.
Perhaps I made the mistake of reading the book before the movie came out. I loved the book immensely (so did my mom, who read it on one of her visits here), and wanted a film that worked in all my favorite aspects of the novel. I believe Miyazaki kept in many things - Howl being incredibly vain, the green gobbledy-goo scene, a very mousy Sophie, a cheeky Calcifer - but certain things seemed too random and inexplicable, perhaps out-of-place in the film Miyazaki aimed to make.