The lack of sentimentality will be utterly refreshing to those raised on a diet of Disney.
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06/19/07
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:21
Rotten:3
Average Rating:8/10
Runtime: 87 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: Departing from the action-oriented plots of his previous films (NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND and LAPUTA, CASTLE IN THE SKY), Japan's most beloved animator, Hayao Miyazaki, provides a... [More]
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Reviews for My Neighbor Totoro
Top CriticMiyazaki is a genius.
04/29/09
The painted backgrounds are lush, realistic, and full of luxuriant foliage. The character animation, while stiff by Disney standards, is appropriate to the characters and expressive enough to bring them to life for the audience.
09/01/08
Obviously aimed at an international audience, the film evinces a disorienting combination of cultures that produces a nowhere land more confused than fascinating.
09/01/08
Top Criticwhat Miyazaki has animated is an idyll, that most melancholic and nostalgic of genres, where landscapes vanish, innocence is lost and death is as much a part of nature as life.
08/02/07
How can I describe its inexplicable power? It is like how childhood memories feel, if you had a happy childhood — wide-eyed and blissful, matter-of-factly magical and entrancingly prosaic…
08/09/06
A real contender for the greatest animated family film ever made.
05/26/06
The beauty of My Neighbor Totoro is its simplicity. It's a warm and friendly story that just made me feel good after watching it.
03/11/06
No review available.
08/15/05
A little dated and a little immature when compared to later Miyazaki works, but that's not such a bad thing, really.
03/24/05
A sensibilidade ao retratar os personagens, a magia do universo concebido por Miyazaki e a qualidade impecável da animação fazem deste filme um clássico instantâneo.
02/09/05
Too much of the film...is taken up with stiff, mechanical chitchat.
08/30/04
Top CriticHas such assured naturalism and incidental detail that it seems we are watching animated actors, not just cartoon characters
11/17/03
Showcases Miyazaki's delightful iconography of spirits, demons, and wood sprites at its most gentle.
10/15/03
No review available.
08/04/03
My Neighbor Totoro has a realistic and dramatic maturity and an ingenuous sensibility (many scenes inherit a child’s curious wonder). In contrast, there is fantasy, one, armed with Miyazaki’s strength as its author, imaginative and totally original
04/10/03
A welcome antidote to the US cultural imperialism of countless inferior Disney sell-thru videos . . .
02/26/03
A classic children's film from the master of Japanese animation.
02/25/03
Wonderfully entertaining animation.
02/07/03
No review available.
10/14/02
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