I really love Hayao Miyazaki's works. His slow pace, beautiful colours and small details accompanied by a beautiful fantastic realism -stories bring the same experience of wonder to both kids and adults. In a time where rarely no films can bring on the true wonder of storytelling, Miyazaki always succeeds!
Kiki's Delivery Service is no expection. it tells a story about a girl in her pre-teens, a witch apprentice, who moves away from his parents to a big city. Besides being a story about a girl, it also talks about deeper themes of change and becoming an adult.
Like Totoro and other wonderful works by Miyazaki, Kiki's Delivery Service gives a feeling of excitement, warmth and love, as well as a hint of the scary world outside his stories. Although Kiki is a pretty long film, at least for an animation, and the story gets a bit slow in the last quarter for some time, the film is a complete work of a filmmaker this world will miss once he's gone.