My Neighbors the Yamadas

Do you like Ghibli movies? Do you love Ghibli's art style? Do you love Ghibli's characters? THEN DON'T WATCH THIS MOVIE

This movie is a series of short stories, so there isn't one story I can talk about. Most of the short stories in this movie are incredibly boring, like, struggling to keep your eyes open boring. There are maybe one or two decent ones, but for the most part, the movie will be making you want to turn it off. If I didn't want to watch all the Ghibli movies all the way through (except Extraordinary Tales, I couldn't get through that one), I would have turned this one off very quickly. The only part of this movie I genuinely like is the song at the end, it's a very fun song and the message behind it is good as well... but that's about all.

I'm a big fan of Ghibli's main art style, but this one... I honestly hate. It's not nearly as bad as Extraordinary Tales's animation, but it's still appalling. I don't like looking at it. You might be a fan of this art style, and that's fine everyone has their own opinion on things, but I personally hate it. That's about all I can say about it.

The voice acting was average, nothing threw me off and nothing impressed me. There isn't much I can say about the sound of this movie so I guess I'll leave it at that.

Now, if you were to ask me which anime has the worst characters in it, I'd most likely choose this movie. They're awful people, they never grow on me, and they never really get any character development. I think I liked one character but I forgot who because the characters aren't memorable. The only character that's memorable is the son, but he's only memorable because he's the worst character in the movie. He's a huge brat, he complains all the time, he does nothing but get angry. I truly hate him. The other characters are "eh" at best.

Just... if you want to complete every Ghibli movie, I guess watch it... but just know that it's nothing special. And in my opinion it's terrible in almost every way possible. I thought this movie might be a nice, comfy, enjoyable movie, but I was SEVERELY disappointed. I almost died of boredom and there were many, many, many times when I almost just turned the movie off, but I got through it. I'm somewhat happy I did because I really like the ending song, but honestly it wasn't all that worth it.

I guess this was a somewhat short review, but there isn't much to be said about this dreadful movie. I truly hate it and I will never rewatch it. I'm sorry if one of you have seen it and liked it, but in my opinion it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I'm really not trying to offend or hurt the feelings of anyone, I just need to get my point across over how much I hate it. If Extraordinary Tales was on this website I would give it an even worse review, but it's not so rip I guess.