He devolves over the course of the film from a potentially interesting villain to a cackling megalomaniac reminiscent of antagonists from bottom-of-the-barrel Bond movies. Worst of all is the biggest bad guy, Muska. Castle in the Sky falls back on stock characters, including the plucky young lad and the innocent girl who just wants to get away from the bad guys. Miyazaki normally creates the most complex protagonists in the animation industry, U.S., Japanese or otherwise, but his touch disappears here. So are the characters, and that's unfortunate. The plot is the most straightforward of all Miyazaki's films. Everyone wants the crystal because it supposedly holds the key to great power - the legendary floating city of Laputa, the "Castle in the Sky" that lends the film its title. Mama's gang comes into town the next day chasing after the girl, and eventually the fleeing Pazu and Sheeta end up in the arms of the military and secret agent Muska ( Mark Hamill), who had originally brought Sheeta onto the zeppelin to begin with.
She drifts straight into the outstretched arms of young Pazu ( James Van Der Beek), who was drawn to the mysterious light. Instead of ending up as a smear thousands of feet below, the girl gently floats to the ground unconsciously after the crystal starts glowing. In the ensuing gunfight, Sheeta climbs out a window, loses her grip and plummets. Things open with a bang, when Mama Dola (English voice by Cloris Leachman) and her air pirates attack a zeppelin carrying Sheeta ( Anna Paquin), a girl who wears a mysterious crystal around her neck. Quality aside though, American viewers may even find Castle in the Sky to be Miyazaki's most accessible work because of all his Studio Ghibli movies, it most closely follows a tried-and-true formula: Boy meets girl. Hayao Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky is proof that he is incapable of making bad movies.
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