Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (9 March 2001)

This movie is a masterpiece. I recommend the Japanese language version over the English version. The first version I saw was the Japanese version, and I didn't understand a word but I got the story quite clearly, and kept watching it because I was so crazy about it.
A few years later the English version came out theatrically, and that was awesome to see on the big screen. I felt that the English voices did not do the characters justice. Especially since they slapped a baritone voice on the villian, when he was a tenor in the Japanese version -- and the animators drew a tenor, if you know what I mean!
I haven't seen the Disney re-dubbed English version, but I'm looking forward to it.