Hauru no ugoku shiro

I did have a chance to watch "Howl's Moving Castle" some time ago. As usual, Hayao Miyazaki's creation surpasses most of other animation in terms of graphics, storyline and the overall feeling. The beginning was excellent! Introduction of characters and the mystery of the animated world were very well laid out. By the time the movie was getting closer to the end, I started losing track of the point of the whole movie. In the end, as usual, all the good guys won. The ending itself was pretty lame. Looks like Miyazaki just ran out of time and tried to compress all that was left to be said and done in the last 5 minutes. Overall, the movie left a good aftertaste, even with such an ending.