Old Version of Totoro much better! Don't bother with new one.

Rating: 10/10 (16 June 2010)

This was both of my children's favorite movie as kids! So I thought I would surprise my 20 year old with the new Disney version for his birthday. Big mistake! They re-did everything. They performed the notorious Disney cutting of the film they're famous for when given foreign animated films. Eliminating scenes all throughout the movie, or just cutting scenes shorter. All the voices were redone horribly. The two young girls who were tasked to re-perform the voices of the two main characters sucked. Every change was pointless and brought the movie down. The original American version of the film done by Fox, I would rate it a 10/10 as a movie your children can enjoy and love. The new "remastered" Disney special edition I would give a 5/10. They really did that much damage.
I sold the new version and went on ebay and bought the original. If you haven't seen this movie before, please buy the original! Disney really blew it this time.