


It also uses an opposite approach in more ways than one. But My Neighbor Totoro offers a more magical experience than Disney's Peter Pan, literally as well as in a storytelling sense.

The movie's title character has become Studio Ghibli's version of Tinkerbell - a fuzzy Totoro now represents the company as its official symbol, appearing before the credits of all Ghibli films. The movie set box office records in Japan and earned a place on, among other lists, Roger Ebert's Great Movies. The problems with this DVD are no fault of My Neighbor Totoro itself. This DVD for 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment uses the 1993 theatrical release distributed by the 50th Street Films unit of Troma Entertainment, though it should be noted that Troma had nothing to do with the DVD production itself. He probably didn't have digital video releases in mind, though.
