My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999).

A 1999 Studio Ghibli film, My Neighbors the Yamadas was taken from comic strip and animated into a film. The watercolour drawing style is very different from the cell style anime we usually see. The colouring is a lot more pastel-based - lighter, and more subtle. The effect being that the film seems to be made from hand drawn pencil sketches, not computer animation. This is one of those films with no real plot. It is split into small episodes, each covering an aspect of the family's life, be it forgetting an umbrella, leaving a child at a shopping mall, or a fight for the remote. The middle class family has six members: Takashi, the father with a run-of-the-mill job; Matsuke, the mother and full-time housewife; Noboru, the older brother and average student; Nonoko, the little daughter with air of naive confidence; Shige, the grandmother who owns the land their house is built on, and Pochi the dog. Such ordinary characters, and yet this makes the family a lot more easily related to, making this film all the more entertaining. I watched the original Japanese version of this with subs, but Disney produced the english dubbed version, so that may be worth a gander as I hear it was done very well. It doesn't take a lot of brain energy to get the most out of this light hearted film, nonetheless, it was a pleasant film to watch, especially as it was something different from Ghibli producers. Personally, I prefer films with more substance behind them. However, for those times where I just want to enjoy some light comedy, My Neighbors the Yamadas would be a good choice.