As a result, even my husband (who's a big Hellblazer fan) likes the film, because he can take it on its own terms.

Plus Tilda Swinton.

The original book of Howl's Moving Castle is one of my very deep childhood imprints and I just don't want to see it done wrong and everything I have heard about the differences—including this conversation—suggests I would not be able to parse them as anything other than wrong.