Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780788811074
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 078881107X
Label: Walt Disney Video
Languages: EnglishUnknownJapaneseOriginal LanguageEnglishDubbed
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 89 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1989

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
In Hayao Miyazaki's magical Kiki's Delivery Service, a 13-year-old girl meets the world head on as she spends her first year soloing as an apprentice witch. Kiki (Kirsten Dunst) is still a little green and plenty headstrong, but also resourceful, imaginative, and determined. With her trusty wisp of a cat Jiji (a gently subdued Phil Hartman) by her side she's ready to take on the world, or at least the quaintly European seaside village she's chosen as her new home. Miyazaki's gentle rhythm and meandering narrative capture the easy pulse of real life (even if his subject is a girl flying high upon a broomstick) and charts the everyday struggles and growing pains of his plucky heroine with sensitivity and understanding. Beautifully detailed animation and the rich designs of the picture-postcard seaside town of red-tiled roofs and cobblestone streets only add to the sense of wonder. This charming animated fantasy is a wholesome, life-affirming picture that doesn't speak down to kids or up to adults. --Sean Axmaker




Rating: - "You have to find your own inspiration, Kiki"
Hayao Miyazaki's animated features are simply wondrous. They evoke a sense of magic and the high level of sensitivity portrayed through the various characters make these features endearing to both children and adults, at different levels.

In "Kiki's Delivery Service", a young girl, 13-year-old Kiki (voiced by Kirsten Dunst) is an apprentice witch, and as part of her training, she needs to spend a year away from her family and friends in a coastal town, honing her craft and finding her ... Read More

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Rating: - A Coming of Age Tale for Witches
Kiki is a witch and just turned 13 years old. It's the traditional age when they leave the nest to on their own. Except in today's age, witches wait till they are a little older. Kiki wants to be traditional and thus, she leaves her home with her cat, Jiji. Kiki ends up in a town by the sea, and starts a delivery service.

I watched this DVD in the original Japanese and read the sub-titles. It is a cute, delightful tale, but I wouldn't call it breadth-taking. The animation of Hayao ... Read More

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Rating: - The Japanese cat is a cat, not a man
While this is a fine movie in English, it definitely gives a different (lesser) experience because of the cat's voice. In English, he sounds like a loud American cartoon character, even goofy sometimes. In Japanese, he sounds like what an actual cat might talk like -- if it could talk. That gives him an enchanting, charming feel that is lost in Disney's translation. With the English version, you are VIEWING an entertaining story with a cat that sounds like a man, trying to be funny. With the Japanese, ... Read More

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Rating: - Best Movie Ever!
Kiki's Delivery service is a clasic! I loved it when I was little, and I still love it now!

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Rating: - Incredible But why change the original Dub?
First of all, I would like to thank Studio Ghibli, Mr. Hayao Miyazaki, and Walt Disney Studios for bringing us such a wonderful film. Kiki's Delivery service is a charming and magical adventure that I cannot praise high enough.

Synopsis:
Kiki is a young witch-in-training and has reached the age of 13. According to tradition, all witches of that age must leave home for one year and learn how to live on their own. Kiki, along with her talking cat Jiji fly away from home to seaside town ... Read More

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