Thumbelina

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Summary: Absolutely Fantastic!
Review: ... We got home and popped it in the VCR and my kids have loved it ever since. The story is oh so romantic, Thumbelina is beautiful, the Fairy Prince Cornelius handsome, and the songs are very very wonderful. Even my husband likes to watch it! We both agree that the songs in the video should have won an award. I find myself singing them while doing housework :) My children (who are 2 and 3 years old) insist to watch this video at least once a day. A must have for all children and adults young at heart!

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Summary: A wonderful cartoon movie.
Review: Both my daughter and I fell in love with this film. This movie this a delightful fantacy about a small (in size) girl that falls in love with a fairy prince but is kidnapped and lost before they can get together. The whole adventure is filled with great songs and funny parts. There isn't a boring part to this movie.

Rating:
Summary: Thumbs up!
Review: Despite the very mixed reviews, we decided to give this one a try.
My 3 1/2 year old loves it and it has become her new favorite movie. She loves Thumbelina and is delighted she has the same voice as Ariel (The Little Mermaid). The music is upbeat and catchy (and I'm NOT a big fan of Barry Manilow). OK, Thumbelina is a bit wimpy but not much more so than any other fairytale princess. A charming movie parents won't mind watching with their kids.

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Summary: Terrible, terrible, terrible
Review: Don Bluth's work for Disney was lackluster at best (anyone remember the Rescuers?), and his solo films are even worse.
Thumbelina contains every Disney cliche, except poorly done. In addition, the animation is terible - varying from awkward rotoscoping of the human-like characters to the blatant theft of Disney character designs from the 40's (most notably the bugs and the barnyard animals during the film's execrable opening song.
The story itself seems almost sadistic in its treatment of the strangely coquettish and precocious Marilyn Monroe-esque heroine. She is repeatedly abducted by disgusting creatures (including Gilbert Gottfried and an obsessed stalker of a frog with a nearly-impenetrable Mexican accent) who all seem to have "romantic" designs on her. She is abused and abased repeatedly until the stunningly vapid lass is rescued by her fairy prince.
Oh yeah, did I mention how terrible the animation is?

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Summary: It's like a whole T.V. serise combined into 90 minutes.
Review: Dude, Don Bluth. What happened to you man? Why do you insist on telling stories that are just too long and too confusing to be movies? Watching this movie was like watching a million plots combined into one. It seemed like every two seconds Thumbalina would wake up in another stranger's home voiced by yet another celebrity. This movie does get some points for some nice CGI action and good music. Can't recomend this one. It's just too much and not enough at the same time.

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Summary: The Classic Tale of a little girl with a big voice & heart
Review: Fabulous in everything except actual quality of animation. The colors and vibrancy are sub-standard of their era. This tale actually follows very closely the actual tale of a girl no larger than her mother's thumb, kidnapped by frogs and beetles, held hostage by a mouse and a mole, and torn away from her fairy prince. The main song "Let Me Be Your Wings" is one of those that true romantics will be humming to themselves for a long time.

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Summary: Booooring
Review: Frankly, this was a pretty disappointing movie. I thank God there were no bad jokes, but the plot was in neutral for the whole two hours. Thumblina says that "She's going home," and 45 minutes later she says the same thing. The slow plot probably has to do with the slew of characters she met along the way. You couldn't remember them all if you took notes! From barn animals, to fairies, to jitterbugs, to frogs, to beetles, and so on and so on... Argh! It was just a flat out boring movie, I'm sorry.

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Summary: Help, my brain is melting!
Review: I am amazed and disgusted at the absolute kitsch that appears in this film in the guise of entertainment. Thumbelina as a character causes me to lament and weep for all those who follow, for lo, they shall be forced to endure her witless--dare I say it--drug induced rambling, absence of neural tissue, and apparent constant readiness to sell herself in one form or another to the nearest insectoid male, up to and including a foppish, brainless young man with wings. No one's child should be forced to endure this film. The very fact that it was created speaks of the coming doom of humanity.

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Summary: musicals for your heart
Review: I am twelve years old, yet I still enjoy the shear pleasure of watching the heart-full-of-joy movie. I go to my library evey month and check out the cd. It's music will surely capture you heart. Those girls in search of a real prince charming like me will adore Prince Cornelius. Be sure to make room for the bokk, movie, and cd on your rack today!!

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Summary: Bad Thumbelina
Review: I an a fan on animation, but this movie was one of the worst I have ever had to sit through. It was so disappointing, I almost got up and walked out. The story was terribly mishandled, the songs were boring, the characters uninteresting. This is sad considering the subject; there were so many possiblities for a fun film. The animation, no matter how nice, can makeup for the lack of creativity, in the rest of the movie.