My Neighbor Totoro (Streamline Pictures Dub)

mh:greatestmovies:My Neighbor Totoro is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli.

The Streamline Pictures dub originated as an early English dub of My Neighbor Totoro for use as an in-flight movie on Japan Airlines flights in 1988, with Tokuma Communications licensing it to Truma Films for a theaterical release in 1993, and released onto VHS and LaserDisc in 1994, with a DVD release following in 2002.

Why This Dub Sucks

 * 1) There were unnecessary and annoying sound effects put into scenes.
 * 2) Very cheesy voice acting for example, Lisa Michelson makes Satsuki sound way older than a 10-year-old (just like a teenage woman), and Cheryl Chase gives Mei a very similar sounding "bratty" voice that she would later use for Angelica Pickles from Rugrats.
 * 3) The music is also sometimes drowned out by the dialogue.
 * 4) Many of the emotional moments were edited, which went from sad to humorous.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) It launched the careers of the voice actors who were working on the movie.
 * 2) The kept the soundtrack from the original.
 * 3) Excluding the bad cover of Stroll, the singing is surprisingly good.
 * 4) It later spawned the much more well-received Disney dub, which was way better than this dub.

Trivia

 * This is the easiest to find of the pre-Disney Ghibli dubs due to its theatrical release. While all of them were available on the 1996 Ghibli ga Ippai Laserdisc set, the Magnum dub of Castle in the Sky and the JAL dub of Porco Rosso were also released on the initial 2002 Japanese DVD releases of both films which can be hard to find, while the Streamline dub of Kiki's Delivery Service was only ever available through the Laserdisc set.