film review : My Neighbour Totoro

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Title: My Neighbour Totoro
Original Title: Tonari No Totoro (JP)
Year: 1988
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
Seen on: 27 July 2009
Rating: ★★★★★

 

 

My thoughts: This film is now my favourite Studio ghibli film ever. Apart from the fact that it's absolutely amazing how Miyazaki was able to hand-draw everything in such a perfect, detailed way at the time, everything about this animation film was amazing. The soundtrack is super sweet, the characters are so unusual and each of them has such a great personality, and the story itself is amazing. It is a children's story, but it drags adults into it even more. Totoro himself is presented in such an original way, and I love the way he makes such massive verses and shouts so much. At the same time, i love that the cat-bus seems almost evil, and that there's always a doubt whether everything is really happening or is just a dream. Things happen and then everyting goes back to normal, and in the end everything just fits in a perfect, magical way. I could watch this film over and over again. <3