Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

In Nausicaä, a young princess ventures into the poison forest to find ways to help her people survive. She's also the only one who can communicate with a race of giant bugs, the Ohmu, who defend the poison forest. Everything comes crashing down when a giant warrior is disturbed and stolen from its resting place, and every army in the world swarms in, each trying to direct it for its own purposes. As a result, we get too many characters and too many plotlines, all taking away from the story of the remarkable girl -- voiced in the English version by the terrific, underused actress Alison Lohman. Miyazaki's instincts take over from time to time in the film's rare quiet moments, but overall it's awfully preachy and wearying.

Disney's two-disc DVD set continues their tradition of brilliantly re-packaging Miyazaki's works for US audiences. It comes with both the English-language version and the original Japanese, as well as working storyboards, trailers, a featurette about recording the English voices and a featurette about the birth of Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli.