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4.0 out of 5 stars lovely gentle film, 19 May 2006

By	A. Craig "Amanda Craig" (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This is one of the earliest from Miyazaki's famous Studio Ghibli, the greatest makers of Japanese hand-drawn anime films. Kiki is a thirteen-year-old witch, and daughter of a witch, who is eager to leave home and spend a year working away from home. Her only talent is flying on her broomstick, but she sets off with her black cat and finds a big city by the sea.
Cheerful, polite and innocent, Kiki needs her cat's sarcasm to make her way in the busy streets. She gets a job delivering presents for customers who visit the kind bakers who give her a home, but is shocked by the rudeness and spoilt behaviour of some, especially a girl her own age. A bespectacled boy on a bike becomes her friend, but Kiki undergoes a crisis of confidence in her own powers which results in her suddenly being unable to fly. Only when she looks within herself can she rescue her new friend after a zeppelin flight goes disastrously wrong....
All the Studio Ghibli trademarks which eventually featured in the masterpiece Spirited Away are here - rippling grasses, trains, weird buildings and pubescent heroines - but the story and psychology are much slighter. Characters have an irritating habit of suddenly breaking into wide cartoony laughter at odds with the charming gravity that is their habitual expression. My children preferred the sardonic cat to Kiki, and we all loathed her boyfriend. However, the beauty of the drawing and the attentiveness to small details such as a crumbling wall in a city alley make this worth having. Children of 5-8 will find it especailly enjoyable, as it is interesting but never frightening.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, 12 May 2006

By	happykathryn "happykathryn" (Bristol) - See all my reviews

Kiki's Delivery Service is a beautiful gentle film, about love and friendship. I love it and so do my children (aged 6 and 3) who watch it again and again. It doesn't have the saccharine cliches of a disney film, or the surreal qualities of Howl's Moving Castle or Spirited Away, but it is a simple story of triumph over adversity that anyone of any age can relate to. Anyone who doesn't enjoy it has missed it's point completely. Like Chihiro, Kiki is a REAL hero for all ages.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Another beautiful film from Miyazaki, 16 April 2006

By	David Welsh (Oslo, Norway) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This is a lovely film about a young witch who has to go to a new town to make a name for herself. The depiction of the seaside town she ends up in is as fascinating as it is beautiful - it's in a Europe as seen through Japanese eyes. The animation is wonderful, with so many lovely little touches (in particular Jiji, Kiki's cat) and, unlike much of Miyazaki's work, the story focuses very much on the personal, rather than the epic and the mythical. It is also less dark than many Ghibli films, and is more clearly aimed at the younger end of the market. This is a sweet, tender and beautifully executed piece of anime which will appeal to all ages.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Another Ghibli classic!
Kiki's delivery service delivers yet another wonderful film from Hayao Miyazaki. A film for all ages, a true gem in the Ghibli collection.

Published 3 months ago by Matthew I. W. Menhenick

2.0 out of 5 stars OK film, quite disappointed.
This film has the potential to be really good. However, the ending left me a little annoyed. It felt almost like there wasn't an ending at all! 'Is that it?' came to mind. Read more

Published 5 months ago by KJ PRIVETT

3.0 out of 5 stars good
My favourite is Howls moving castle, and this falls short quite a bit. Kikis voice is a bit grinding, as is the cats. Read more

Published 6 months ago by Katherine Hind

4.0 out of 5 stars Kiki's delivery service
yet again a very good film by studio ghibli but is very much a family film if you are used to there other films like spirited away, princess mononoke or grave of the fireflies... Read more

Published 7 months ago by Alison Louise Dorey

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best Ghibli's
i am a big, big fan of animation. i have most of the disney 'classics', including the junkie ones, i have all the pixars, most of the dreamworks, most of don bluth's works... Read more

Published 8 months ago by Michael Smith

5.0 out of 5 stars kiki's delivery service
Another great dvd from studio ghibli. These really are fabulous stories. My kids loved this film.

Published 8 months ago by C. T. Mayhew-stokes

4.0 out of 5 stars Kiki`s delivery service
It was an enjoyable cartoon as you would expect from Studio Ghibli, however I didn`t feel it was in the same line as Nausikaa or Spirited away. Read more

Published 9 months ago by Beatrix Cochrane

4.0 out of 5 stars Good film, shame about the whiny american dubbing
We have enjoyed several of these films, refreshingly different to Disney -Howls Moving Castle is the best but the dubbing is the same whiny american accents in all of them and you... Read more

Published 9 months ago by Dn Smith

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Great Ghibli
A real charmer this, another great Ghibli film.

In terms of pacing and story this is closer to My Neighbour Totoro than to the more action-packed Princess Mononoke... Read more

Published 10 months ago by Grr

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful animated feature by Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki animated feature of a 13-old year witch leaving his parents and settling in a new town to form a (broom-based) delivery service is irresistible. Read more

Published 15 months ago by Andres C. Salama

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