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Anastasia

Anastasia

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Definately one of the Best!
Review: I have loved this movie since it came out. It tells the story of the last of the Russian princesses- Anastasia. The story goes with the thoery that Anastasia survived after the rest of the royal family was murdered. In the movie- she has been at an orphanage since she was 8 and remembers nothing of the past years of her "former" life. She "gangs up" with Vlad & Dimitri- 2 conartists who want the reward that her grandmother- the only other surviving Romanov- is offering. The antagonist/ "bad guy" of the movie is Rasputin- who sold his soul to get revenge on the Romanovs for turning their backs on him. He is furious that Anastasia survived and.... well... I guess you'll just have to buy it to see!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Good movie if you like complete fiction!!!
Review: This movie is not even close to the real story of Anastasia! It is very unlikely that Anastasia would have survived the REAL way she and her family were attacked, but I'm not going to tell you how because it's pretty grosome. I will tell you, however, that Rasputin did not do magic, No one actully stormed the castil, and Anasasia's grandmother was NOT there at the time! Plus, I watched this when I was a little girl, and I got scared to death! I gave this 2 stars because it is a good story(even if it is made up!).

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My daughter & I love this movie!!! :)
Review: I have never written a review, but felt compelled to do so when I read the mediocre reviews Anastasia had received so far. My daughter & I first saw Anastasia in the movie theater & we LOVED it!...the music is some of the best I have ever heard (it is up there with Beauty & the Beast and Lion King.) There was a song writer and lyricist who wrote all of the songs and they did an awesome job! We bought the music CD after seeing the movie & we still listen to it. The movie was great also (the Rasputin character was a little out there & seemed cartoonish, but every good movie has an evil bad guy.) The detailed palace scenes and the rest of the movie was spectacular. The rest didn't seem cartoonish at all, but very real. And who goes to the movies to see reality, we go to see a happy ending!! I recommend this movie to any family with a 7 to 13 year old girl...and watch it with her, you will enjoy it too :)

Another favorite of ours is Drew Barrymore in Everafter. Five Stars on that one too.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: cute movie but not based on the truth
Review: This is a cute movie and its a sweet fairy tale for kids and anyone that likes animation but it doesn't tell the real truth about Anastasia. Anyone that studied Russian history knows that the royal family didn't survive. They were taken to the basement and shot along with their servants. Women in the past that have claimed to be Anastasia & they were proved to be fakes. I can't believe the film makers had the nerve to put the tag line, "based on a true story." Who do they think their kidding?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the last good animated films...
Review: First of all, this film was NOT made by Disney. I can honestly say people have argued with me about this even after seeing that Fox made Anastasia. Anyways, this fabulous (yet historically inaccurate!) film about the Russian princess is a grand story that elaborates on what happened to Anastasia when the palace was siezed.

The animation and writing is so bright and vibrant in Anastasia, you really may be convinced Disney made this film. (Yet they didn't!)

Meg Ryan is fantastic in voicing the lead. The musical is also great and never really gets on your nerves like the fast majority of animated musicals. Anastasia was just great.

This film can be enjoyed by pretty much anyone at any age. I loved Anastasia, even though the ending and beginning were a bit weak. It was just great!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: "There goes the dinning car!"
Review: The year is 1917. The place is Russia during the revolution. Anastia Romanov (Meg Ryan) survies the revolution, along with her grandmother, with the help of a small boy (who we'll meet later). Anastia is left behind at the train station and is sent to an Ophanage. Meanwhile, Anastia's grandmother will pay 10 million dollars to the man who can find Anastia. Enter: Dimirti and Vladimir (Keysley Grammar) . The two are on a "get rich quick" scheme, since they're hiring girls to act as Anastia herself! Soon, Anastia finds Dimitri and Vladimir and head off to Paris.
A great children's movie that skips over what really happened.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Love this movie!
Review: This movie is the best Disney movie i have seen in a long time! Who cares if it is not "historically accurate?" It is a movie made for kids to enjoy. Even though I am not a kid, i still enjoy this movie. It shows the struggle of a young woman trying to figure out her past.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: "A Rumor in St. Petersburg"
Review: This story is wonderful for children instead of knowing the horrible truth of what really happened to the Romanaughf Family. It follows closely up to the point of Anastasia being still alive (but in truth she really died)Its still a wonderful movie telling a romantic and comical side of the story. The villan Rasputin is just as funny as his helper Bartok (the bat). It is hysterical watching and listening to the conversations the two of them have. With a wonderful and romantic ending the whole story is tied up in a bow. I highly suggest it to parents looking for a funny movie for their family.

The only precaution i have is that some younger children may be scared by the beginning of the story but all and all kids will enjoy it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: HIstorically Inaccurate
Review: All right, well. First of all, the singing was all right. The Lion King, Alladin, and Beauty and the Beast were much better. Second, as many people have said, Anastasia was not a child. Third, Rasputin was DEAD when the Winter Palace was raided. Before he died, he wrote a note to the Czarina that if he was murdered they wouldn't last a year, and if he died of natural causes, the Romanovs would survive. He was murdered, and the Romanovs fell soon after. He wouldn't want to destroy the Romanovs. If anything, he would want to bring them back to power. Without the Romanovs, he was really nothing. He would rather have found Anastasia, killed Lenin, and restored her to power. I think Stalin or Lenin would have made much better villains, or even Trotsky or Molotov.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good (for the most part)
Review: I thought that the animation was okay. The actors had the perfect voices for the characters, and the music was nice and memerable. I also agree with Amazon that the story was enough without the villian-I just skipped over those parts. All in all, the whole movie was really good. On par with Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. The one thing that really irked me was the romantizing of the Romanoff reign (I know, I know, it's a movie) The movie made it seem like the Romanoff's were just great rulers and that the peasents had no right to be angry; instead of how the Romanoff's totally screwed over the peasents and were extremely brutish. Other than that...


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