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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2601111" data-attributes="member: 14159">While a good movie, and like other works of Miyazaki it is quite beautiful, it was not as good as Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke.There were several significant plot holes, and a seemingly nonsensical twist at the end (hard to explain without spoilers, except that a supporting character seems to have a major plotline trimmed out and without it the end looks odd).  The IMdB reports that the director changed in production, from the producer of Digimon to Miyazaki, and it was based on an existing book (that was apparently significantly abridged to make the movie), so if there are holes it could be explained by production staff changing in mid production and adapting a book to a movie.From a gamers standpoint, it made me think of an Eberron campaign during the Last War, with a  pseudo-WWI-Europe with airships and giant armies and great wizards being forced into service as terrible weapons of war.</blockquote>