Anastasia

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Summary: Wonderful Movie!
Review: This is a fantasic cartoon, it is fascinating even for adults. I thought this was a disney film for a long time and was very surprised to find out that is wasn't, it is deffinitely as good as any Disney movie. It is a thrilling experience for kids and adults to watch!

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Summary: Nearly the best Animated Feature of All Time
Review: I mostly like the songs in this movie, but the movie as a whole is quite good. I still watch a lot of cartoon movies, disney etc. (being a 19 year old male, and still watching them disney cartoons- I'm just like a big kid). I do believe one or two of the songs where made by Aaliyah, and that is the main reason why I had to have this movie. Just collecting all of Aaliyah's movies and music, she is amazing. But like I was saying, this movie is really good if your still into the rated G movies or disney.

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Summary: A great movie
Review: Anastasia has been one of the best disney movies I have watched in a long time.I love the songs(Journey to the past sung by Aaliyah and Once upon a December). It is only a cartoon and does not have to be historically correct like some reviewers were suggesting.If we wanted to know what happened in real life we would read a history book.This movie was written to entertain young viewers and alot of what really happened is not suitable for young childen.I think Disney did a excellent job as always.

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Summary: Ridiculous Drivel
Review: This is the most laughable piece of Disney butchery I have ever seen. Their irreverant rewrites of the Herculean myth and Victor Hugo's "Hunchback of Notre Dame" were barely tolerable, but this movie takes the cake. Having studied the lives of the last Czar and his family extensively, I can safely say that whoever wrote this is an ignorant [...].

The entire storyline is based on an urchin masquerading as Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov, daughter of the late Russian Czar Nicolas II. Another key character is a young man supposed to have been the Imperial Family's kitchen boy during their imprisonment at the Ipatiev House just prior to their execution. Supposedly, he was there the night of the execution and helped Anastasia to escape. Pardon me, but the kitchen boy serving the Imperial Family was sent away to live with relatives several weeks prior to the execution. There goes that theory. Oh, and this movie shows several flashback scenes involving Anastasia's family. Some of these scenes depict her brother, Tsarevich Alexei, performing ludicrously dangerous stunts (i.e., diving off a cliff into a lake) Um, I wonder if the writers were informed that the Tsarevich suffered from hemophilia, then untreatable? And let's not forget the villain, Rasputin. Yes, Rasputin is quite active in this movie, despite the fact that he had been assassinated two years before the deaths of the Imperial Family. I seriously doubt that after being fed a triple dose of arsenic, being repeatedly stabbed, and being tied up and thrown into a river, that old Father Gregory would have had enough energy to seek revenge on anyone. And then there is the matter of Anastasia's age. At the time of her family's execution, Anastasia was seventeen years old, not the small child the movie displays her as. But if those discrepacies aren't enough to make you laugh, think about the eyewitnesses accounts of the execution of the Imperial Family. Grand Duchess Anastasia was bayoneted to death by the Bolsheviks. How in the name of heaven could a frightened seventeen year old kid escape from a room full of armed, bloodthirsty soldiers?

Alas, we have been fed yet another pitiful Disney butchery. The intriguing story of the downfall of the Romanov dynasty has been revamped into the stuff of checkout-stand gossip rags. Buy it if you must, but please don't mistake this [...] fairy-tale for reality.

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Summary: Anastasia-the name that means 'to be reborn'
Review: Quite a good animated version of the classic Anastasia tale,involving the unmistakable voice of Meg Ryan as Anastasia.

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Summary: Don Bluth, Disney, what`s the difference?
Review: This is the only animated movie I`ve seen that wasn`t made by Disney but managed to achieve the entertainment and charm of "Disney magic". When I saw this the first time I was eleven and I didn`t know the difference. I think the reason Disney stopped making so many animated features like the classics everybody knows is because they`ve run out of fairy tales and books to cover. The creators of "Anastasia" took an unthinkable story that you`d never think would make a passable kids` movie and pulled it off.
In some moments the movie is very much like the Disney masterpieces, but a great deal of it is pretty original. The main character, Anastasia or "Anya", is not much like any Disney beauty previously created, and there has never been a main Disney dude that acted or even looked at all like Dimitri. The movie has a different kind of feel altogether from the Disneys. When the characters go into song it suddenly has the setting and mood of an old-fashioned musical. There are parts in the beginning that remind me of "Newsies", and during the song "You Can Learn To Do It" the whole thing is kind of reminiscent of "My Fair Lady."
There are, of course, some hurting elements that Disney probably wouldn`t have allowed to happen. The computer animation goes from being beautifully done to overdone from scene to scene. In the beginning of the movie there`s blurs of white blowing around the screen that`s supposed to look like snow. There`s a part when a stone horse is attacking Dimitri and it`s the fakest, most poorly animated thing accomplished in a long while. Plus there are a few weak moments in the script, though overall the lines are full of good laughs.
To say something about the music, I liked that the songs reminded me more of classic live-action musicals than Disney movies. The score is very good, but I wouldn`t say better than even most scores from other animated movies. That`s a hard area to beat.
Overall, if you`ve never seen the movie you should see it at least just once to check it out. And if you`ve got kids, buy the thing. I had a lot of trouble borrowing the VHS from my friend`s little sister because she didn`t want to part with it.

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Summary: Praises for 'Anastasia'
Review: Anastasia has to be the first movie i've seen in a LONG time from disney/atlantis in the animation genre. Being close to sixteen yrs old, there isn't alot of free time to sit down and watch animated films, what with uni and studys and all, but, in my opinion, anyone wanting to see a beautifully made movie should see 'Anastasia'.
Sure, the movie might not be historically accurate, but if it were, it would take away alot of the beauty element of the movie. and sure, it may have drawbacks, but that's to be expected....everyone has different taste in movies and films, and so everyone will view the film in a different way.
In my own personal opinion, i found the movie to be one of the greatest achievements of animation technology. Based around young Anya, it is a movie about self-discovery, personal beliefs and the desire to reach a goal, no matter how impossible.
Although it has been five years since the movie made it's debut screening, i consider it a classical piece of animation achievement.
With its attractive storyline, superbly drawn and animated characters and beautifully performed songs, i would recommomend anyone, in any age group, to watch this movie. if the movie itself doesn't entice you to enjoying the film, then the music certainly will.

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Summary: hmphf
Review: This is, easily, the worst animation flick i've seen (not counting Quest for Camelot). Not only is it historically inaccurate (forgiveable, maybe, since most kids' -and adults', for that matter- movies are), but the voices (Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Christopher Lloyd) are overdone. They sound desperate. To get out, maybe. Oh, and did i mention the obligatory romance element?

Midway, i was already missing the usual Disney features, but i guess nothing better (animation-wise) came out that year.

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Summary: THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER!!
Review: I am 14 and I still love to watch Anastasia! I know all the words to the songs and the things the charachters say. If you are hesitating about buying this DVD, get it! its the best movie you'll ever buy.

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Summary: Proof That Disney Isn't The Only Master At Animation
Review: I've already lost count on how many times I've watched this movie, and I've only borrowed it for a few days! I plan on buying the DVD for myself soon.

"Anastasia" is a wonderful movie. The animation isn't perfect, and has flaws, but doesn't ruin the movie. The characters have greath depth and interact wonderfully with one another.

If you can push aside the fact that this movie basically bites history in the [rear], you'll love it. My mother took Russian for 7 years, is a semi-expert in Russian history, yet she loved this movie nonetheless, even if it's inaccurate.

If you CAN'T stand seeing history twisted and changed, then don't watch it. Simpile as that. Those who don't mind changes in history, but it, those who do, don't get it.