Hayao Miyazaki has done it again!!!! :D
I must applaud Miyazaki for being a great director, including Hisaishi's music . This movie is transformed from Diana Wayne Jones novel to a great anime movie. Since it was dubbed with the cast including Christian Bale, I thought how he'll sound like without the corked mouth of his in his Batman movies. God, the movie was spectacular!!! Bale's voice sounds awesome, thank God. The story is about an 18 yr. old girl named Sofie who works at her dad's hat shop during a time of two nations at war. She encounters Howl, a wizard, when he was followed by the Witch of the Wastes' minnions(a fat, greedy witch who dated Howl). She was then turned to an old lady by the Witch's curse when she stood up against her when she called her hats "tacky." She ventures off West to find Howl in reversing the curse. Determined to reverse the spell, Sophie makes friends wtih a fire demon named Calcifer, a boy named Markyl, and scarecrow. The song is beautiful as if you're walking through air. A MUST SEE!