Feeling lost is something that lots of people will experience in their life. Not knowing if this is truly you or if this is who you want to be. Feeling lost and having no one to help you is the worst feeling to have. But there is that someone who can help find your true self and who you truly are. Letting go of your past and fear to feel truly happy. This is one of life’s greatest feelings, to feel loved for being you.

Summary

The movie begins with a heavy fog rolling in with the steam of a giant mechanical moving castle crossing the large fields. In a humble town, Sophie is creating hats while being asked if she wants to join her friends, but she declines. As Sophie finishes the hats, she heads outside and sees all the flying ships above her. As a parade happens, Sophie sticks to the alley ways to avoid the people, but she starts getting harassed by two guards. Just then, a man appears acting as Sophie’s boyfriend and forcing the guards to walk away. He says he will be escorting her but he is being followed by creatures made of shadow and muck. They get trapped in a dead end, but he jumps and sends them up in the air. They slowly descend by walking on air, above all the people and glide down to the baker shop. He says he will draw them off and disappears in the crowd of people. Sophie tells her what happened to her friend and heads out for a walk. On the other side of the building, the group of shadow creatures return to a small cup and the person who summoned them travels to a different area. later at night, Sophie returns to the hat shop and a woman enters through the door. Sophie tells her that the shop is closed and she has to leave. The woman reveals herself to be the Witch of the Waste and places a curse on Sophie. Sophie looks down at her hand and the mirror, to see that she was turned into an old woman. She panics until morning and that morning Sophie’s mother heads down to visit her. But she locks the door to hide what she looks like. Sophie realizes what she has to do and as no one is looking, Sophie sneaks out to find the Witch of the waste.

Sophie sits down after traveling far and finds a stick in the bush that would be good for walking. Sophie tries her hardest to remove the stick and when she does, it turns out to be a scarecrow with a Turnip head. As Sophie travels up, she finds it harder to travel. Until Turnip head comes back brings the Howl’s moving castle. Sophie heads inside the castle and finds a talking fire. The talking fire, Calcifer makes a deal with Sophie to help get rid of their curses. The next day, there is a knock at the door and it’s from the mayor of a city. A little boy grabs a disguise and turns into an old man to trick the mayor. The young boy asks what she is doing here but then Sophie realizes that the castle can go to a different location at a time. The young boy gets hungry and Sophie starts making some food on Calcifer. Howl returns, sees Sophie making food and helps her. Howl asks the young boy, Markl to get the plates ready for the food. Howl asks Sophie what is in her pocket and she pulls out to see a message from the Witch of the Waste to Howl. later on, Sophie began to clean the castle spotless. Howl heads out for a bit and Sophie begins to clean the upstairs bathroom. Sophie begins to look around the castle and is really impressed by the magic of Calcifer and all the new places she’s seeing. After finding Turnip head again, Sophie finishes up clean and enjoys the scenery. At the same time, Howl begins taking air warships causing chaos in a half bird like form. Howl comes back and painfully transforms back to his normal clothes. The next day after coming back from the market, Sophie hears Howl shrieking. Howl comes downstairs with orange hair, saying he is repulsive. Sophie tries to comfort Howl, then his hair changes to black and he begins to turning into slime from thinking he is ugly. Sophie drags him upstairs and gets him clean and rested. Howl expresses he feels like a coward from hiding with the castle. Howl tells Sophie that he has to report to the king about the war. Howl is scared to talk to the king but he suggests that Sophie goes for him.

Sophie makes it to the kingdom and finds a dog that is following her. she takes the dog with her to the capital because she thinks it’s Howl in disguise. The Witch of the Waste travels by her, saying that she was invited by the king. They both have to travel the rest of the way to the capital on foot and they both get out of breath. The Witch of the waste sits down but realizes that she is getting her magic stolen. On the other hand, Sophie makes it to Kings magical leader, Madame Suliman. Sophie tries to convince her to let Howl go but she says that Howl is too dangerous to use magic like his without a heart. The general comes by to talk to Suilman but she sees through the disguise and sees that it is Howl. They escape Suilman and Sophie takes her, the dog, and the powerless Witch of the Waste back to the castle. Suilman finds out where to find Howl and targets the moving location of the castle to no avail. Later that night, Howl comes back blooded and in a more monstrous form. Sophie wakes up and tries to find Howl in his room but sees that room is a giant nest and Howl has turned into a monster. She wakes up from a dream and Calcifer tells her that Howl’s curse is worse and she’s running out of time. Later that morning, Howl comes downstairs and joyfully says that they’re moving to get away from Suilman. With a powerful spell, the house begins to change location and look, as well as making a portal to Sophie’s home. Howl takes Sophie to his secret garden and Sophie turns young from the joy of seeing the garden. He tells Sophie that she is beautiful to him but she turns back to an old lady. Howl then notices that there is a warship nearby and uses his magic to stop the warship. The next day, Sophie’s mother comes by to see Sophie and leaves behind a gift bag for Sophie. But the Witch of the Waste sees that it had a spy bug in it and fed it to Calcifer.

As Sophie heads back inside the warship begin to drop bombs in the area but Calcifer is to weak protect them. As one of the bomb were about to drop on Sophie, Howl comes back to save her and to protect the castle. Howl takes down a warship but gets really hurt in the process. Sophie gets the idea to make the castle come to Howl by making a deal with Calcifer. The Witch of Waste sees that Calcifer has Howl’s heart and takes it. The Witch begins to burn, so Sophie poured water on her but in result destroyed Calcifer. The remains of the castle crash and Sophie is left hopeless. Sophie travels through a remain door and sees a young howl from the past eating a shooting star, making Calcifer. Sophie travels back to the present and sees a badly hurt, monster Howl. She kisses him and asks him to bring her to Calcifer. Sophie grabs to remain of Calcifer and puts it into Howl, bringing them both back to life. The remains of the castle crash but before they fall, Turnip head saves them but breaks his pole. Sophie kisses him as thanks and Turnip head turns into the missing prince of the kingdom who had a curse on him. At the same time, Howl wakes up and smiles from the sight of Sophie. The prince heads back to his kingdom and the dog reports that the war can finally be over. Calcifer comes back and makes a new castle for them to live and the all live happily ever after.

In my opinion

This movie is beyond words to describe how amazing it was. It showed that true love can change anyone for the better. I give this movie a 10/10.