Almost as great as My Neighbour Tottoro

Rating: 10/10 (12 February 2001)

This is an adventure movie on an epic scale. Comparing it to Star Wars is about right, but still fails to describe the level of storytelling in this saga. It is not only a story of heroism and death, but one of our own battle against nature, how we keep forgetting how to live with nature instead of against it, it is of hatred and forgiveness, love and pity.

The only reason why this movie is not as god as "My Neighbour Tottoro" is that that story is entirely void of any action, any cheap effects. It is a story that carries itself and keeps you riveted, even though nothing really happens. To make a story like that interest is truly genious.
But in waiting for "My Neighbour Tottoro" we can only watch the director's genious at work.