Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 2
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1999 Wide
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Tales in the life of a Japanese middle-class family.
PG, 1 hr. 44 min.
Jan 1, 1999 Wide
Aug 16, 2005
All Critics (6) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (2) | DVD (17)
Quirky animated comedy follows a family's ups and downs.
For all that they are cartoons, the Yamadas never court buffoonery... In fact, it's surprisingly observational, based in the way that people honestly act and feel.
...the movie would be best served by a viewing in separate installments.
It's far more wacky than anything you'd seen in the Sunday comics.
Fluffy as a French pastry and almost as cloyingly sweet.
Most [segments] are pleasingly bite-sized, occasionally moving, and rather funny.
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A chronicle of the Yamada Japanese family, My Neighbors The Yamadas is a coarse, but creative animation output from Studio Ghibli that fragmentary narrates the comical encounters of the members of the Yamada family. A satire of the relevant in marriage, family, and contemporary domestic affairs, My Neighbors The
September 28, 2011Super Reviewer
This reminds me of the "funny pages" from the newspaper, 3 comic panels which are suppose to elicit laughter, but in fact leaves you thinking, 'who the fuck thinks this is funny?'. That is exactly what this film was like a much of short panels that I assume were suppose to elicit some laughter, I don't know if it was a
June 24, 2010Super Reviewer
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