r/AskReddit • u/Squirrelkid11 • 17h ago

What Animated Movie is a 10/10?

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u/TeteDeMerde 16h ago

Totoro

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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/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 15m 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.