Studio Gibberish

Miyazaki’s film (ハウルの動く城) of Diana Wynne Jones’s novel Howl’s Moving Castle is pretty, of course, but the story got lost somewhere. The royal sorceress has an unexplained grudge against Howl, an eccentric but kind young wizard with an unexplained reputation for crimes against beautiful girls; several people are afflicted by curses; and there’s a war on. But true love puts things right in the end. Okay, whatever.