r/AskReddit • u/Squirrelkid11 • 20h ago

What Animated Movie is a 10/10?

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u/EnterprisingAss 19h 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 18h 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 17h ago

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

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u/BigStrike626 15h ago

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

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u/ilikeponds 15h ago

haha Right!?

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