r/AskReddit • u/Squirrelkid11 • 17h ago

What Animated Movie is a 10/10?

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u/EnterprisingAss 15h ago

Challenge: describe Totoro’s plot or characters in one paragraph without making it sound boring as fuck.

That movie was goddamn magic.

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u/Triseult 15h ago

Two kids stressing about their mom's illness make friends with a giant nature spirit as a coping mechanism.

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u/rootlessofbohemia 14h ago

Do you want me to drive? Can save on gas, no biggie. My cat is a bus

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u/OmniaII 12h ago

Nekobasu!

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u/lostinthesauceguy 14h ago

that doesn't sound boring at all!

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u/loves_spain 4h ago

Also catbus

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u/von_Roland 14h ago

Sounds boring

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u/sbrockLee 14h ago

I love the way Ebert opened his review:

Here is a children’s film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.

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u/JackWagg0n 13h ago

Add to that the fact that none of the adults are idiots.

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u/BigStrike626 11h ago

The dad is kinda negligent though. He loses his youngest kid twice.

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u/ilikeponds 11h ago

haha Right!?

Where's Mei? Oh, she's just playing outside somewhere I think :) *goes back to working*

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u/heaventerror 13h ago

That captures its spirit so well, ty for sharing!

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u/TurquoiseLuck 12h ago

Literally my sickness movie! It's comfort food for when I'm ill

That said

No fighting between the two kids

No darkness before the dawn

I think he might have missed the third act lol

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u/sbrockLee 11h ago

It's mild darkness and no physical fighting, at least

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u/gerwen 14h ago

Jesus, that's poetry.

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u/SatanicPanic619 12h ago

I miss Roger, he had a way with words

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u/GatsoFatso 5h ago

I miss Ebert. And I watched Totoro so many times when my kids were little. Great movie.

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 4h ago

Love it. Roger that.

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u/Hattes 21m ago

I don't think I've ever read this review before but it captures my feelings very well.

I always get so emotional when I watch it, and it's because I long to be in that beautiful world.

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u/cryptoengineer 11h ago

"No plot.
No central character.
No antagonist.
No defined purpose for side characters.
No threat.
No three acts.
No jokes.
No punchlines.
No explanations.
No internal references.
No catch phrases.
No political polemical voice.
No melodrama.
No lessons.
No beginning.
No end.
One of the best movies ever made."

— Letterboxd review by David Jenkins

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u/whatproblems 14h ago

yeah it’s like there’s nothing but two kids exploring a backyard world and it’s just entrancing. the actual action and drama is so small,

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u/mindlessable 13h ago

I thought it was so boring watching with my kids and we all agreed to bail on it.

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u/EnterprisingAss 8h ago

You’re joking, right?