I was enticed to watch this movie from the beauty of its appearance. And sure enough the movie was incredibly beautiful with nice details from several recognizable styles of European architecture.
The plot seemed to develop nicely as well - especially in the beginning, where Kiki arives to the town. She's not allowed to fly her broom over the city - ooh, what will happend because of this? She meets this "find Waldo"-kid who claims his grandmother was a witch too and even earlier some other stranger's mention of a witch(es) who used to live in the town. Is there a connection between the two? Is this town against witches under the friendly surface?
And what about that mysterious artist living out in the forest? She must be connected to some sort of exciting backstory about how she had to escape the evil hands of the city. Right? RIGHT?!
No. Kiki builds an okay successful delivery service, but suffers from burnout when her talent becomes a job, and therefore loses her ability to talk to her cat and to fly her broom. This is however easily fixed by a friendly chat with her artist friend and the sudden need to rescue Tombso... well, that got her ability to fly a broom back - the cat however never spoke again.. poor Jiji (Japanese version)
I was baffled when the credits were presented at the end. Was this really it? And yes.. yes it was.. a masterpiece of drawings and designs wasted on a too shallow of a story...
Good message, but with a lot of missed opportunities story-wise.
Poor Jiji...
The plot seemed to develop nicely as well - especially in the beginning, where Kiki arives to the town. She's not allowed to fly her broom over the city - ooh, what will happend because of this? She meets this "find Waldo"-kid who claims his grandmother was a witch too and even earlier some other stranger's mention of a witch(es) who used to live in the town. Is there a connection between the two? Is this town against witches under the friendly surface?
And what about that mysterious artist living out in the forest? She must be connected to some sort of exciting backstory about how she had to escape the evil hands of the city. Right? RIGHT?!
No. Kiki builds an okay successful delivery service, but suffers from burnout when her talent becomes a job, and therefore loses her ability to talk to her cat and to fly her broom. This is however easily fixed by a friendly chat with her artist friend and the sudden need to rescue Tombso... well, that got her ability to fly a broom back - the cat however never spoke again.. poor Jiji (Japanese version)
I was baffled when the credits were presented at the end. Was this really it? And yes.. yes it was.. a masterpiece of drawings and designs wasted on a too shallow of a story...
Good message, but with a lot of missed opportunities story-wise.
Poor Jiji...