Chris Stuckmann reviews My Neighbor Totoro, starring Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi, Sumi Shimamoto, Tanie Kitabayashi, Hitoshi Takagi, Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning, Tim Daly, Lea Salonga, Pat Carroll, Frank Welker. ''My Neighbor Totoro'' has become one of the most beloved of all family films without ever having been much promoted or advertised. It's a perennial best seller on video. Sandie Angulo Chen, Common Sense Media.
My Neighbor Totoro is a heartwarming, sentimental masterpiece that captures the simple grace of childhood. This superbly animated children's tale is directed by Hayao Miyazaki, one of Japan's most beloved animators. The story follows Satsuke and Mei, two young girls who find that.
My Neighbor Totoro movie reviews & Metacritic score: When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they My Neighbor Totoro is drawn in an expansive, naturalistic way that makes an atmosphere of trees, rice fields and hills unraveling in the distance a hypnotic shadow character. My Neighbor Totoro is a story that definitely something children can relate with, as i watched this with someone, they immediately paused the film and Before watching various Miyazaki movies, my view of Japanese animation was that it was mostly full of violent animated serials, with a smear of science. What is it about Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro that makes it such a pleasant, immersive experience? Unlike just about any other animated film (including the other titles in Miyazaki's impressive oeuvre). Onto the review: Title: My Neighbor Totoro. And with the re-release of the theatrical movie, we can be sure more and more people will be looking for these clues and debating about if Totoro is actually the god of death.
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This is the movie that really started it all for Japanese anime as a worldwide phenomenon: Tonari no Totoro ("My Neighbor Totoro"). The next movie I saw was Princess Mononoke, which I loved again, and then I decided to watch My Neighbor Totoro. I came into it wanting to love it Can someone explain to me the love behind this movie?
My initial thought it I didn't like it because a teen is neither old enough to enjoy the innocence. Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro is among the most delightful of all films. Driven by its pleasant nature and deceptive simplicity, the story remains free of harrowing conflicts, fast-paced action, or moments of deafening suspense. But whoever said a film needs violence and thrills to have adventure?