Saw this is high school Japanese class in '95

Rating: Null/10 (13 September 2001)

I saw this as I was just getting into anime, so I must say that I was disappointed. Yeah, I know it's kiddie fare for the most part, that doesn't let it off the hook. When I filtered the top 250 into animations and saw that "My Neighbor Totoro" was #2, I was shocked and appalled. This is fine as a kiddie flick, but has really NO value outside of that boundary. Another reviewer has called it "imaginative", and perhaps it is that. But that's hardly enough to warrant watching this film unless you're 4 years old. We watched it in class because at the time we didn't even know any Japanese words other than "shinkansen". The members of my class immediately skipped ahead in our writing texts to learn how to write "Totoro" in hiragana script and made a joke out of it for 3 months, writing it on the boards. I think "Totoro wa, nan des ka" was our classes anthem. Please don't watch this film. Kiddie flicks have no business being rated so highly on this site,