Truly Dreadful Film

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby. My Neighbour Totoro is another fair example of an animated feature that doesn't belong on this list. Disney Pixar's Cars 2 had more heart than this movie has in it's entire running time i mean common do people really buy on those stuff? I've found the film incredibly stupid and pointless and even the 2 main girls seemed kind of stupid and the giant creature looked like something straight out of a Pokemon movie. (0/10)

Tonari no Totoro is an animated film which tells the story of Satsuki, Mei and their father Tatsuo who just moved into a new place, a little house in the Japanese countryside, so that the girls are closer to their mother's hospital. The little house is surrounded by fields and forest. In the nearest forest, Mei and Satsuki are going to create strong ties with the forest spirits called Totoro. The forest spirit is really powerful in the way that, in a certain angle, he can represent the hope of the two young girls toward their mother's health and the wish that it gets better. What is interesting in this movie, is that it is different from the classic outline when the lead character has to fight/ win over an enemy which is another character. There is no enemy in this story, the main problem that hooks viewers is the disease. In this way Tonari no Totoro is different from most of animated movies putting forward the enemy and his/her fall as a goal. Moreover, the magical atmosphere of the movie, halfway between the real and the imaginary, plunges the viewers in a particular mood and way of thinking and incents them to feel more concerned about the problem while still not being too worried. Indeed, the movie is far from being a tragedy and the magical atmosphere debunks the stress of the disease in a way. From its deep content to the way it is structure, Tonari no Totoro is a really beautiful movie that I would definitely recommend watching!

I think this is the first time I've watched a movie from the IMDB top 250 and I just don't get how anybody could rate it so high. It's a cute movie and it was interesting to think that it was made so long ago a look a little bit at how they depicted Japan in 1988, but I don't find that it was a memorable film at all. It moves along so slowly and doesn't really have any climax at all. I didn't feel a connection with any of the characters. I certainly wouldn't recommend this film to anybody. It is not interesting for me as an adult and I have a hard time believe that it would be captivating to modern children.

Touched my heart very deeply. Drowned me into the movie so much that I felt like I was in Japan. Infact I wish to be in a village like in the movie. Words are not enough describe, you can only feel.