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My Neighbor Totoro (Two-Disc Special Edition)
RRP: $29.99Our Price: $20.49 (subject to change)Editorial
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Visionary and Academy Award–winning director Hayao Miyazaki (2002, Best Animated Feature, Spirited Away) has created a heartwarming, music-filled, and wonderful world in My Neighbor Totoro, a delightfully animated family adventure. And now, exclusively in this special edition DVD, never-before-seen bonus features reveal even more of Totoro’s fantastic world! Follow the adventures of Satsuki and her four-year-old sister Mei when they move into a new home in the countryside. To their delight, they discover that their new neighbor is a mysterious forest spirit called Totoro—who can be seen only through the eyes of a child. Totoro introduces them to extraordinary characters—including a cat that doubles as a bus!—and takes them on an incredible journey. Bring home My Neighbor Totoro from Studio Ghibli and Disney for your family’s DVD library and experience the timeless classic film Roger Ebert calls “one of the very few that come along that are magical for all ages.”
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My Neighbor Totoro is that rare delight, a family film that appeals to children and adults alike. While their mother is in the hospital, 10-year-old Satsuki and 4-year-old Mei move into an old-fashioned house in the country with their professor father. At the foot of an enormous camphor tree, Mei discovers the nest of King Totoro, a giant forest spirit who resembles an enormous bunny rabbit. Mei and Satsuki learn that Totoro makes the trees grow, and when he flies over the countryside or roars in his thunderous voice, the winds blow. Totoro becomes the protector of the two sisters, watching over them when they wait for their father, and carrying them over the forests on an enchanted journey. When the children worry about their mother, Totoro sends them to visit her via a Catbus, a magical, multilegged creature with a grin the Cheshire Cat might envy.
Unlike many cartoon children, Satsuki and Mei are neither smart-alecky nor cloyingly saccharine. They are credible kids: bright, energetic, silly, helpful, and occasionally impatient. Filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki makes the viewer believe the two sisters love each other in a way no American feature has ever achieved. My Neighbor Totoro is enormously popular in Japan, and some of the character merchandise has begun to appear in America. The film has also inspired a Japanese environmental group to buy a Totoro Forest preserve in the Saitama Prefecture, where Miyazaki's film is set. --Charles Solomon
On time perfectionReview date: 2010-07-25 Rating: 10 out of 10I received my product from this seller on time in a great amount of time because it arrived at a point I could give it to my friend before her birthday, which was around the expected time of arrival! 5 stars!
ReviewsFake!Review date: 2010-07-23 Rating: 2 out of 10I bought this dvd thinking it was the same as the one my daughter watched 1000 times over on vhs. It wasn't. I was excited to watch this with my now 17 year old daughter and at once, we knew Disney or whoever decided to redo the dubbing rimmed it big time. It was great the way it was. Disgusted with it! I recommend the original one over this FAKE one.Under par with previous work from Miyazaki.Review date: 2010-07-21 Rating: 4 out of 10Having seen Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, both breath-taking in all senses, Totoro comes way under par both in the plot and in the graphics, both of which I found over-simplified.Totoro is.Review date: 2010-07-16 Rating: 10 out of 10Totoro is one of the best animated films for not just kids, but kids-at-heart. If you haven't seen it, you are doing yourself a disservice. Don't do that.Misleading TitleReview date: 2010-07-13 Rating: 2 out of 10I have to say that Totoro is one of my favorite childhood movies, ever, and I still love it as an adult. I was pretty excited to see that I could buy it online, because you can't find this movie in stores anywhere, but I was INCREDIBLY disappointed when I recieved it and put it in my DVD player. This movie is a remake of the orignal, and God knows why they would ruin it. The only difference is different voice actors, but like I said, I fell in love with the original and hearing the "celebrity's" voices instead of the originals was just wrong. I guess it would be alright if you had never seen this movie before, because you wouldn't notice a thing, but right from the start I knew something was wrong. The voices are all wrong, and I wouldn't be so upset about it, except that it isn't written anywhere that says its a remake. I don't understand why they felt the need to remake a perfectly fine movie anyway. I was looking for the original, and it's not what I got. I just wish it would have been said somewhere on the site or the box that it ISN'T THE ORIGINAL FILM. True, it does say the names on the front of the box, but I had never known the original names so I didn't notice a thing when I bought it. So seriously, if you're looking to rekindle childhood memories, don't buy this version!
Product Details/SpecificationsActor(s):
Chika Sakamoto
Noriko Hidaka
Shigesato Itoi
Sumi Shimamoto
Hitoshi Takagi
Creators:
Mark Henley (Cinematographer)
Hayao Miyazaki (Writer)
Eiko Tanaka (Producer)
Ned Lott (Producer)
Rick Dempsey (Producer)
Tohru Hara (Producer)
Yasuyoshi Tokuma (Producer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Disney Presents Studio Ghibli Manufacturer: Disney Presents Studio GhibliEAN: 0786936791716Binding: DVDFormat: Animated, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Release date: 2010-03-02Universal product code (UPC): 786936791716Number of discs: 2Aspect ratio: 2.35:1Audience rating: G (General Audience)Region code: 1Running time: 86 minutesLanguage: English (Unknown)
Language: French (Subtitled)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: Japanese (Original Language)
Language: English (Dubbed)
Brand: BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO
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