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Product Reviews:
My Neighbor Totoro |
Rating: 3 (out of 5)
Summary: Great movie, terrible dub
Comments: The English language soundtrack for this movie is dull and uninspired. Even though I do not understand much Japanese, the movie is much more fun in the original with subtitles, because of the energy of the voices. It begins with the title: in Japanese it's "Tonari no Totoro," which is alliterative and poetic, where the English "My Neighbor Totoro" is literally faithful however utterly boring.
This seems to have been released in the US mainly for anime lovers and fans of the original. If the US distrihoweveror (Disney it appears) were to commission a "remake" of the dub, with a better translation, music, and voice talent, they could have a real "Finding Nemo" like hit on their hands. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: A classic Miyazaki Hayao story
Comments: "My Neighbor Totoro" is1of those movies that you watch...and watch...and watch again. Miyazaki Hayao has once again opened the portals to imagination and given us a wonderful, heart-warming story that children and adults will find entertaining, if not thought provoking. If you've never watched a Miyazaki Hayao movie before, this is the1to start with!! |
Rating: 1 (out of 5)
Summary: Sucked
Comments: I love My Neighbor Totoro, however this1that disney put out really sucked, They changed the voices, took out a lot of lines, and just all around messed it up. i have the orginal tape that streamline put out back in the early 90's and have pretty much grown up with the movie and i love it. its just really hard to see ething that was great about the movie changed so much. It took always all that we love about the anime. All my friends who watched this dvd said the same thing. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: A tradition passed on ...
Comments: I remember watching this movie when it frist came out and simply being at awe with it. No bad guys ... little girls and fuzzy monsters ... come one, how can that beat Akira? Well, it just does. It's been my favorite move for years and now it's my daughter's favorite movie too.
I think the thing that gets me the almost all is Myazaki's treatment of the parents. When the children tell them of ghosts and monsters, there is instant belief ... no pats on the head followed by "silly girls" ... the father plays along and encourages them with kindness and understanding ... awesome.
The artwork is not Disney and it's not Pixar or Dreamworks ... its just simply amazing and warm. makes you want to just jump into the movie and play along.
Get this movie for your kids, get this movie for yourself, you will not be disappointed. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: The Best Kind of Neighbor
Comments: I have never seen the movie before so can not judge what it was like in other releases. In the DVD I purchased, I had widescreen, dialog in English and Japanese and2disks. 1for the regular film and the other was the entire soundtrack with story boarded pictures. I found the dialog in English beautiful and well done. The picture and the care the film had in transferring it over into DVD was marvelous. A man and his2daughters move to the country in a new house while the mother is hospitalized. They meet2 nice neighbors however the girls become attached to forest spirits who seem to take care of them when their parents are unavailable. Beautiful moving story with lots of hope. |
