I liked the movie quite a bit; I wasn't sure how I was going to deal with the plot changes (I had heard there were some) but overall I think that I liked them. Plot aside, I think some of them made the *backstory* more coherent. The backstory is the hardest thing to follow about Howl--like, *what?* There were *how* many princes? And they were turned into *what?* and *why?* And this has *what* to do with the Witch of the Waste and Sophie's sisters? Witness the fact that I never can remember the answers to any of those questions, except that they were all connected somehow.
Plot incoherence... hmm... I didn't think it was too bad, but I do think the pacing was somewhat haphazard and that character motivations sometimes lacked explanation. This happens so very often in anime that I tend to wonder if it may be a cultural thing: motivations for some things would just be obvious to someone Japanese. *shrug*
I felt like he actually clued Calcifer's backstory better than Jones does (before the flashback, that is)...
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Plot incoherence... hmm... I didn't think it was too bad, but I do think the pacing was somewhat haphazard and that character motivations sometimes lacked explanation. This happens so very often in anime that I tend to wonder if it may be a cultural thing: motivations for some things would just be obvious to someone Japanese. *shrug*
I felt like he actually clued Calcifer's backstory better than Jones does (before the flashback, that is)...