She has an odd tendency to sound 'older than her age,' but this works pretty well with her character. While her performance may not be on the same caliber as, say, Coraline, it's a very good one in its own right. (It was back then, and remains so today.)ĭakota takes the character in a similar way, but with a different approach. The saddest fact is that most of these viewers had decided from the get-go that the Disney version, regardless of its quality, would never live up to the movie such an atmosphere only succeeded in fueling fire to those who believe that Disney only acquired Ghibli's works just to destroy them, an argument which is totally fatuous in every way. But unlike Fox's version, reaction to the new dub was wildly divided (an atmosphere not uncommon with Disney's dubs for Ghibli's works) most critics were generally favorable, welcoming the new version as a fresh update for a new generation, but many longtime fans of the FOX dub were furious, condemning the new dub as a travesty and a desecration of a great family film. Due to rights complications, however, the new dub, scheduled for release in 2004, didn't appear until two years later. Hewitt, voice director Rick Dempsey, and translator Jim Hubbert, brought in famous stars to redub this film. The now expected team of scriptwriters Cindy Davis Hewitt and Donald H.

As fate would have it, FOX's rights for Totoro soon expired, and, as Disney acquired the Ghibli catalog, it is probably unsurprising that they would produce their own version of Totoro.

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