Moving story as always, Miyazaki never disappoints. It's a film about the wickedness and stubbornness of humans. Poor music and audio effects though. The ending could have been better.

After falling in love with My Neighbour Totoro by this same anime director, I decided to see if Nausicaa is just as great. And it is, but in a totally different way. It requires some fantasy on the viewer's part, and has a steampunk sciencefiction backstory, which will make it less approachable to some viewers.

This imaginary world dragged me into an epic struggle, where a young girl is forced to chose between her friends or her passion, between fighting or surrendering and between her country or her life. (For connaisseurs: it's like Dune). A wild ride follows where the girl finds her way and I was on the edge of my seat. At times the message to follow your heart, be eco and 'make love not war' was a bit overdone, but this epic story was so exciting and delivered that message so strongly that it deserved to be a bit preachy.

Amazing imaginary world crafting, beautifully drawn, a powerful message and just a great story. It sucked me right in and I'll be watching this over and over.

Image and sound 3.75 / 5. Miyazaki film with his usual themes that never disappoints

I do so love Miyazaki films! They always transport me! I just need to own them at this point!

Sir Patrick Stewart voice never gets old, also first time hearing shia labeouf do a voice character.

I really enjoyed this one and definitely love hayao miyazaki work being the best out of the studio Ghibli animators.. shhh! don’t tell the others.. he’s made the most anyways and this was his first work for the studio I hear.

Loved the effects, the action and the storyline and not forgetting the soundtrack that’s beautiful as always and being his work this one definitely had similarities to his Princess Mononoke being one of my favourites it made the film even better.

Fantastic Movie, Certainly one of the best.

Oh wow

A post-apocalyptic fantasy adventure with truly remarquable world-building, I got so invested in such a short time and wanted to know every little thing about this world. A semblance of *Avatar* (for the themes), *Dune* (for the setting) and *Made in Abyss* (for the monsters and underground scenes)... among others like even *Star Wars*. Favorite part of this is getting to discover all the carefully crafted monster insects, ships and vehicules. A good mix. I only wanted more of them. Princess Nausicaä is truly an excellent main character: a fierce leader, unrelenting, confident and the embodiment of compassion, seeing beauty in even the most monstrous of creatures. It had a very strong interesting start, lost me a little in the middle but then grabbed me in the last third. Beautiful story and themes on environmentalism, immersive score, good action, emotional and truly a great adventure.

Very _Dune_-ish. Despite being Ghibli’s first film, there’s already so much artistry on display. At no point does it feel rudimentary or like a test run. It’s an instantly memorable film because of its detailed worldbuilding, unique score and unpredictable story. However, it takes a while to get there. The first act of this film is riddled with a lot of clunky exposition. The general set-up for the story also seems a little conventional before it takes some more interesting turns as the film goes along. Nevertheless, I was still immediately drawn in by the characters and the aforementioned technical aspects. The film only gets stronger and more imaginative as it goes along, and I can’t deny being completely wrapped up by the story in the third act. Thematically it addresses some ecological concerns (no surprise there given the studio’s history), and it comments on that with a surprising amount of nuance (though it gets a little corny during its closing moments). It’s not just the usual ‘save the whales, humans are bad’ shtick, and I really appreciate that.

7.5/10

Those creepy crawleys were so creepy. And that gooey guy at the end was so gooey. This movie rocks.

Rather a dark story but still somehow cute movie. Well done and it is almost impossible to believe how old this movie is—it does not feel that way. Just another magical story by Miyazaki.

Nostalgia. A great story l l

Beautiful movie that shows how important kindness is.

The original title of the film is Kaze no Tani no Naushika.

I'll make a more thorough review soon, but I greatly enjoyed this movie

Very similar to Princess Mononoke but this is slightly worse, solid 7.5 stars.

This is the very first Hayao Miyazaki's feature of Studio Ghibli. To see where it all began with the knowledge that this would be seminole moment, makes this a marvellous experience. In a theme, to be oft repeated in his work, we see a world on the edge of an apocalypse, depending on man learning to live within his natural bounds rather than destroy it. And, a young girl who elevates her society by her bravery and compassion, all with a natural, girlish charm. This first work was based on a serial, graphic novel (manga). There is great scope in his artwork. His love of flight is infectious. His characters are alive and vibrant. I found there were times the plot was so diverse that the pace was compromised, but this film was a seed of the skill that became Ghibli's hallmark. I give this film an 8 (great) out of 10. [Animated Adventure]

This is my first Miyazaki, I'm watching them all for the Blank Check podcast. This is a big blind spot for me and if they're all as good as this one I'm in for many, many treats. Beautiful film, beautiful story. I love the character of Nausicaa so much!

Level "Excellent" • 8 :heart: • Recommended.

It was somewhere between "a bit boring", "okay", and "pleasant to watch". An interesting thing were some similarities with Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings! :smile: I think I would be inclined to recommend it, but only to fans of anime.