Ronja, la hija del bandolero

What would otherwise have been a beautiful animation series has been completely ruined by the miscasting of the lead voice in English. Ronja is supposed to be 11 years old - My daughter (8) has been constantly mocking the voice of Ronja as she says she sounds like a toddler. The voice is so gratingly irritating it has completely destroyed any enjoyment of the series there might otherwise have been.

I sympathise with the other comments of the music and voice dubbing in English which seems disjointed but all of this might have been forgiven as the animation, characters and creatures would be engaging in themselves.

I expect that the original in Japanese would not suffer from these drawbacks. So it is down to me and my children to study Japanese, or perhaps we could beg the production company to re-voice Ronja, then I might shell out the £25 for the DVD box set for a second time!

I thought the animation was simply beautiful. It had its hiccups with some longer than needed scene transitions. If the original is better I want to see it. I am not a huge anime watcher but I do enjoy watching sometimes with my three kids, considering the other things I have watched with them this was breath of fresh air in a really joyous and innocent way. I think there are some pretty entertaining cartoons out there so I am out to disrespect anything. I just want to highly recommend this. Watch this, the subjective experience is worth the time. Ronja, the Robbers Daughter is truly something that captivates my family. We are ages 2, 6, 10 and 51

While this may be fine for kids, artistically it is so far short of the original Swedish film treatment as to be essentially unwatchable. The crude animation and awkward pacing of the story do no credit to the studio, animators and director. The music is so generic as to be superfluous, competing and clashing with the dialogue. This lamentable effort sells short the intellect of anyone over age 5.

If you can, I strongly recommend enjoying the original Swedish film treatment of this wonderful tale. A wonderful cast, fabulous scenery, seamless integration of live acting and animation provide an engaging and entertaining experience for all ages. The "robbers chorus" is epic enough to compete with the finest opera and not to be missed.

I recommend the story for families with children, but please consider the far better original if you have access.

I watched this show during quarantine with my then 6 year old daughter and we both were charmed. The fact that it was technically a Ghibli production made it even better. It was a thoroughly enjoyable show, like Romeo and Juliet minus all the adult elements, age gap and romance.

It is extremely hard to find refreshing kids content that prioritizes nature and good lessons these days. That is why me and my daughter are constantly rewatching Totoro. This show fits that perfectly though. So when I randomly remembered this show the other day, I thought it was a perfect fall show and invited my now eight year old to watch it with me. So we sat down on the couch, queued up Amazon Prime (the streaming service it used to be on) and searched for it. But when we clicked on it, we got a nasty surprise! It says watch free with Prime, but when you click on that it only takes you to the trailer. So I scrolled down and saw that you can't play any of the episodes, only the freaking bonus trailer.

Apparently you have to pay 30 dollars to buy the complete season on Amazon and also 30 dollars if you want the DVD!

Amazon Prime has disappointed me by removing most of the enjoyable, educational children's content on there (the Long Long Holiday was another one we thoroughly enjoyed, then went to rewatch and it was gone). First HBO Max and Netflix screwed over animation by removing and canceling a batch of animated shows, and now Amazon Prime is repeating that! Take your money to Hulu or Disney+, or buy DVDs instead.

Only 4 episodes in and I want it to end. The computer animation is not Ghibli! It's awful and doesn't move properly. This blu-ray only contains the english dub.....and it's horrific! The voice actors do not suit the characters one bit. They don't suit Ghibli. The voices of Ronja and her mother are particularly bad. It's such a shame. I love Ghibli and rewatch their movies often, this is one I'll never watch again.