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Movie Review: Kiki’s Delivery Service
Tisa Schuit, K-5 Reading, Winchester Thurston
Instructional Grades: K-6
Kiki and her best pal, Gigi the cat, leave home to begin her training as a witch. She finds work in a bakery and soon becomes a delivery person. Because Kiki is a witch, she uses her broom to deliver the goods. She is reliable, punctual and friendly and soon expands her delivery service beyond baked goods to include the various needs of the villagers. She finds herself being quite successful until one day she realizes she can no longer fly. The movie ends happily when Kiki finds her inspiration, regains her witch powers, and flies again.
The movie can be used to help teach character education. Many common themes that involve friendship are present and can be used to show first hand examples of the ins and outs of being friends. Elements such as jealously, insecurity self-doubt are present in this engaging, delightful movie. Other character traits found are perseverance, empathy, and loyalty.
In addition, disk II contains the storyboards for the movie. These are very cool and extremely interesting! The story boards are black and white pencil sketches. This could be useful in teaching the nuts and bolts of animation which is amazing in this movie. It really gives you and appreciation for animation and animated movie making.
