Obviously aimed at an international audience, the film evinces a disorienting combination of cultures that produces a nowhere land more confused than fascinating.
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09/01/08
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
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Reviews for My Neighbor Totoro
Top CriticToo much of the film...is taken up with stiff, mechanical chitchat.
08/30/04
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
No review available.
08/15/05
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
My Neighbor Totoro is more than a fairy tale; it is an engaging story which uses fantasy sparingly.
07/25/01
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
The lack of sentimentality will be utterly refreshing to those raised on a diet of Disney.
06/19/07
Miyazaki is a genius.
04/29/09
Wonderfully entertaining animation.
02/07/03
A welcome antidote to the US cultural imperialism of countless inferior Disney sell-thru videos . . .
02/26/03
A real contender for the greatest animated family film ever made.
05/26/06
It's Miyazaki’s finest work! It's the best film of 1988! It's the best animated feature ever made!
06/17/02
Showcases Miyazaki's delightful iconography of spirits, demons, and wood sprites at its most gentle.
10/15/03
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.
10/14/02
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
A classic children's film from the master of Japanese animation.
02/25/03
Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy.
01/06/02
Top CriticMy 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
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