Get the Non-Disney Version

Rating: 10/10 (2 January 2013)

Totoro is one of our family's favorite movies of all time. We watch it again and again, so much that there is a chip in the middle of the disc. So when I saw the title at Costco or someplace I grabbed it to have a second copy. My kids just watched it today and they were sorely disappointed to see that Disney had wrecked their favorite movie. For whatever reason, they took it upon themselves to "improve" or update the film. They changed many of the voices and also changed some names and also the dialogue, all in bad ways. Did they not learn anything from the reaction to The Last Airbender? The result is a darker and less pleasing version than the original. So by all means get this movie but try to find the non-2005 version as originally dubbed into English under the direction of the boys in Japan rather than the cultural destroyers from Anaheim/Florida.