Time for You, and Baby to Thumbelina With Wings
A lot better than what people say!
I grew up watching Pebble and the Penguin and Anastasia. I was introduced to this almost a month ago, I watched it, and I was actually impressed. It is not every bit good equally the above titles, only I can proper name a lot worse animated films, believe me, the Secret of NIMH sequel anyone?! The film is flawed, but on the whole information technology is a fun sugariness film for kids. The animation is very adept, only is a trivial flat in some places. But the blitheness sequence in "Permit me exist your wings" is scenic. Speaking of the songs, they aren't bad at all. They are very pleasant, and beautifully orchestrated with lovely tunes even if some of the lyrics were hard to understand. The incidental music was lovely too. The all-time aspect was the story. Information technology stayed close to the original fairytale, while adding a little bit on. All of the characters are very much the same, and none of the essence is lost, save for some slow scenes in the middle half. The characterisations are fine. Jodi Benson is a very talented singing actress, and she had the best song of the film, "Let me be your Wings", which was stunning audibly and artistically, and she does do a expert job as Thumbelina. People find Thumbelina annoying and patronising, I notice her beautiful and pretty and she means well. Cornelius was a little banal, but I warmed to him. The toads were funny, peculiarly during that actually fast Spanish song. My favourite character is Jaquimo, what a great accent, and Thumbelina's mother is a warm and loving character and provides the film'southward about touching moment in the reprise of "Soon"! Other vocalization actors are Gilbert Gottfried, John Hurt and Ballad Channing. All in all, a pleasant animation, that is misunderstood. 7/ten. Bethany Cox
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Ooooooooh, my caput :(
I went to the store the other twenty-four hours and was looking through the 5 dollar bin and found Thumbelina, it's Disney, and then I figured I would requite it a look. Admitingly, I am under that Disney truck, about 98% of Disney movies I absolutely adore and have quite a few in my favorite picture category, then why not merely accept the risk on Thumbelina? I had absolutely no clue that this was peradventure the most insulting movie of all time. This is the movie that Enchanted also had a skillful fourth dimension making fun of, see at a time when Piddling Mermaid, Aladdin, and Dazzler and the Animal were very pop with the songs, characters, story lines, and princesses, Thumbelina is a very breathy rip off of every Disney classic that was popular at the time.
A lonely woman who'due south biological clock is ticking so she cheats past getting a magic flower. I day, a skillful witch gives her a barley corn to plant, and the next day the flower blooms, revealing a niggling daughter "no bigger than her pollex". The adult female names the girl Thumbelina. Thumbelina spends fourth dimension with her female parent's subcontract animals, just is worried that there is no one around of her own size. I night her mother tells her a story about fairies. Subsequently beingness put to bed, Thumbelina imagines that someday she'll be able to notice someone to love. Oh, hum, will someone ever love this thimble size girl? Yep! Prince Cornelius of the Fairies flies by her windowsill and is enchanted by her, a la Sleeping Beauty. Simply by the sound of her voice he knows she's the one, a la Little Mermaid. The two have a ride on Cornelius' Bumble Bee, during which they fall in honey, a la Aladdin. During this ride, a toad named Grundel sees Thumbelina and declares to his female parent Mrs. Toad that he loves her. Pretty much anybody wants Thumbelina. Thumbelina goes to sleep in her walnut bed, and is kidnapped by Mrs. Toad. Mrs. Toad declares that Thumbelina will join their family singing grouping. Thumbelina's cries for help are heard by Jacquimo, who helps her free of the lily-pad and encourages her to follow her heart and discover her way home to her mother. Despite the fact he's a bird, he doesn't offer to fly her home, then she'south going to have to figure her own style home I guess. But as Thumbelina would say "It's incommunicable".
Believe me there are more just indicate blatant rip off's of skillful Disney movies, merely I can't go into all details. Only seriously this motion picture is merely pathetic, none of the characters are lovable, I can't tell you how much I merely wanted to step on Thumbelina. This is the motion picture that I'd refuse to show a girl because to exist honest, it's kind of sexist. Thumbelina lets there exist pelting on her happy parade because 1 issues calls her ugly, she basically says she'll die without her fellow, she pretty much has cypher to offer only her looks and gets slapped on the butt and just accepts it. This is simply a really bad movie, I have such a headache from banging my head against the wall v million times, but at least I have a new DVD case to help balance my couch.
1/10
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A watered-downward plot with a lackluster soundtrack
I wanted to like Thumbelina. I did. I mean, information technology'due south a familiar fairytale and it features Jodi Benson (Ariel) every bit the title character, simply it'southward just not good. Information technology'due south a watered-downwardly plot with a lackluster (and occasionally terrible) soundtrack by Barry Manilow. Thumbelina herself is a vapid character who can't seem to do anything to save herself or even form an opinion. This movie is one big wasted opportunity.
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An adorable little moving-picture show!
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I have never seen this version of Thumbelina before. I remember beingness in playschool, the other piddling kids and myself watched another version in which I tin't seem to observe on the Internet. 22 Years later in 2016, I managed to come across this piffling flick. This moving picture came out the year I was born and so there was no way I couldn't have watched it! Anyways I will tell you what I have a idea about it!
I honestly didn't know Jodi Benson aka Ariel was on this, every bit usual she always has her incredible singing phonation. Seriously, I'm so glad she took role in being involved equally Thumbelina. She is an amazing actress and singer.
I thought the songs were quite nice but could easily be forgettable since this movie is quite a hidden classic jewel. The drawings were absolutely beautiful. It's too bad nowadays, we unremarkably use 3-D for movies.
When I have my ain kids, I will definitely show this to them! They would absolutely love to run into it!
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The worst animated motion-picture show of all time
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I saw this as a kid and I actually liked it merely now watching it as an adult Past GOD does this movie suck really bad. For starters the good was the animation was nice but on the negative side the songs were dreadful except Soon and Let Me Be Your Wings which are my favourite songs in this movie, another plus is the voice acting was great only because it features Jodi Benson who's the voice of Ariel from The Little Mermaid and here she vocalism's the main charcther. But the rest was bad from the bird who was so annoying,the prince only cared for Thumbelina'due south singing voice,Charco was like Nikki Minaj'southward twin sister and that song On The Road was terrible and don't get me started with Marry The Mole which is the winner of the worst vocal in an animated picture by the Razzie Awards back in 1994. Oh and the composer is of form Barry Manilow who done hits like Copacabana.
Alright so permit'due south dive into the story. An quondam woman wishes to have a child and she receives a magic bloom that gives her a lilliputian thumb- sized girl named Thumbelina. And so Thumbelina wishes to see people that are exactly the aforementioned size as her and she wishes to be a fairy.So hither comes Cornelius who is a crowned prince who stumbles across Thumbelina,and what do you know the two are instantly falling caput over heels in love with each other. Only when Thumbelina gets kidnapped by a toad who wants her to marry her son,she has to find her way back abode.
Overall if y'all dearest Jodi Benson's singing vox and if you love actually cheesy movies similar this then check it out but for the rest avoid at all costs.
5/ten
Ps you could say this is a guilty pleasure for me. And Iago himself Gilbert Godfried is in this equally a beetle.
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Banal main characters, overnice animation, some okay songs
Thumbelina, from director Don Bluth, is one of those blithe films where the material is utterly wasted on such proficient animators. Considering this is a pretty movie. The colours are soft as cotton candy, the grapheme designs are creative and it's simply utterly gorgeous to watch. But the story is nonsensical, the chief grapheme is so passive that half of the time I had to question whether she was fifty-fifty breathing, and all in all it just jumps around also much.
And so yeah, Thumbelina is a tiny girl. One of the lilliputian people, the size of a finger in fact, and for the longest fourth dimension she and her adopted human mother believed that she was the only 1. Until one night a fairy prince flies by on his bumblebee steed, and wouldn't yous know it, love at starting time glance. But and then she gets taken past some Latino circus frogs - I only realized I had to type that, requite me a moment - from where she ends up on an adventure all over the surrounding woodlands. These include sleazy cockroach night clubs, wealthy pervert moles, more Latino frogs - because I have washed something heinous in past life and I must be punished - backstabbing mice and more song numbers than you can safely consume in a month, let lonely in little over an 60 minutes. And I hateful information technology. Scarcely a scene goes by without someone breaking out the background dancers. It's ridiculous! Some of them are okay. But so at that place are then many of them that it would be a small miracle if they didn't hitting at least a few catchy notes.
Information technology'south a mess. It has practiced things in it, certainly, but the overall structure, or lack thereof, ways that it's difficult to relish them properly. Still, if you lot're into Don Bluth or bang-up animation in general, it just might exist worth your while.
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Almost conventional Disney animation, but with sexual harassment
The story of the tiny singing clumsy girl who wants to be a pixie princess does not differ also much from many other Disney fairy tale adaptations. You will meet elements of many other films, particularly Little Mermaid (perhaps considering Hans Christian Andersen commited sort of self plagiarism...). Blitheness is good, merely the story is just ok... Characters are peachy but not as remarkable as the ones in other Disney classic movies either. However, the most unique (and weird) feature of this film is that in no other blithe movie from Disney yous will see something close to this level of sexual harassment. There are many situations of this kind throughout the flick, from the time the prince knows Thumbelina to the behaviour of other male person characters towards her.
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Wretched kid's motion picture
Endeavour the post-obit experiment. Search for the words "Ariel" and "Disney" into AltaVista, and see how many hits you go; in particular, run into how many hundred pages you lot tin can find created by men, and fifty-fifty by women, who are hopelessly in love with the fictional mermaid. -Sure, there are i or two other pages devoted to this or that other blithe heroine, but that'due south just a dutiful follow-on effect. The merely animated woman (well, sort of adult female) who has this strange Helen-of-Troy effect, is Ariel.
In that location are several reasons: an important one is the vocalisation artist, Jodi Benson. She delivers a truly great performance, unmatched by anyone in a similar part, which would have fabricated people fall in dear with even a shabbily animated stick figure, which Disney's mermaid, of class, was not. But the very perfection of her operation prevents its being repeated. Even Don Bluth ought to have known this. Jodi Benson may never over again play the young female lead in an animated movie.
That'due south why it's then heartbreaking to scout "Thumbelina". (It's non why it'due south so painful - there are other reasons for THAT.) We reach the low point when Thumbelina's age drops from at least sixteen to at most ten, after she has been humiliated by a Broadway chorus of insects and plays the children's morality play role of a child who needs to be comforted later on being teased at school. Since it's probably illegal to send very young children to cinemas unsupervised, why was this scene included? Worse still, I can't positively swear that this is the low point. I simply walked out.
My patience had been sorely tried beforehand. The story (or at to the lowest degree, the first fifty minutes of the story) is flabby and unmotivated. The blitheness is truly bloodcurdling. Some of the insects are fatigued in that ugly rubberhose style that Disney had, for the most part, done away with by 1936. The best animation is mildly awkward. The dialogue sounds as if they made it upward every bit they went along. Computer effects are both garish and ghastly. Nosotros go all of these terrible features in one striking in the beginning x minutes: a weakly drawn swallow flies through a lurid imperial computer-generated city to land on a book and begin narrating the story of Thumbelina with words no more imaginative than these: "Theece eez ze story of an eempossible lerv." (Sorry, I tin't sustain the cheesy accent.) "Romeo and Juliet! Ah, an incommunicable love! Cinderella and the prince! Ah, that was an impossible love! But the most incommunicable love of all ..." Oh, please.
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Why?
This movie is watered-down, shallow, and stupid. The plot is all over the place, and the characters are annoying. I'thou pretty sure that all the good reviews come from trolls or children. The animation is so low-quality that I thought information technology was a lot older earlier I constitute the IMDb page. I don't recommend this boring nonsense. Likewise the songs are bad.
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"A Woman's Worth: Mysognist's Perspective"
Horrible watch, won't watch over again, and don't let people watch this.
Near everything past the premise of this movie is confusing and ridiculous, starting with the spelling, "ThumbElina"? It should be "ThumbAlina", that'south a nit pick, but information technology honestly made the moving picture harder to find.
I beloved the premise of a tiny person "birthed" to a wanting mother, but after that, the problems set up in. Let's start with "birthed": she didn't magically announced out of the air, she wasn't born, she crawled out of a flower every bit a tiny developed, wearing a clothes, and able to talk. This is some fey granted wish nonsense if I e'er saw one.
I empathise using the proper noun Thumbelina to draw her size, equally "Fingerling" would probably be inappropriate, merely she is perilously tiny: able to be crushed without observe, any big animal (duck, goose, moo-cow, equus caballus) will consume her without noticing, she should have drowned in the first act, twice I think, the wind alone would sweep her abroad, though she doesn't accept to worry virtually falling to her death. This girl is short to Tinkerbell, who is at least 6 inches, and Thumbelina is about two inches (and a one-half, maybe), and then she's only coming upwards to Tink's booty. The movie never clearly demonstrates this and morphs her trunk size anywhere up to a human foot based on the needs of the scene.
Bugs that wear clothes, with human eyes and teeth don't bother me, I get that because they don't have faces that interpret, but amphibians and birds with very human teeth and tongues (geese have their own teeth) is agonizing, and that swallow was downright horrifying. It is a BIRD, the pinnacle of aerodynamic nature in, not only, boots, shirt, and a hat, simply GLOVES, information technology may be the nearly distracting thing I've ever seen. Even when you lot anthropomorphize a bird to utilize their wings every bit easily, gloves don't make any sense if they wing. It was honestly worst than frog breasts, which I can't stand just as much, they just weren't every bit frequent.
So at that place are lots of (horny) bugs, but so at that place are bumble bees that act like dogs, just should be loyal to their queen, not a fairy. Nosotros can blame fey magic, merely since he has his ain wings, he shouldn't RIDE it.
Now, the actual story: information technology makes sense to split up the nature dynamics into "nationalities", and the earth is crafted in some detail, but why did they chose these details. We basically have a Spanish prince, a beetle pimp, a french...hobo(?) swallow, a mole that is a wealthy concern man, and then the fairy kingdom which makes the most sense, other than they fail to have nature gradually evangelize wintertime (why they're in charge, I don't know) and suddenly murder anyone who hasn't sheltered.
This motion-picture show has a problematic feminist story: she'south born looking for companionship. She gets desperate for anyone, then wants a prince, and then she doesn't even necessarily want the but guy she's ever seen, until she knows he'southward the prince and he promises her all this stuff. And then she'south kidnapped, force on stage for entertainment (strips), led poorly by the hobo swallow, and pressured to marry the mole, but so marries the guy that sort of looks like her, and and so he changes her to be just like him.
Just picket "Fern Gully" or any of the Disney fairy stuff instead, please.
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Follow your heart . . . to a better movie
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During the endmost credits of 'Thumbelina' I actually checked to see when this movie was fabricated. Seriously, the blitheness in this film is so tired and washed out that I idea that it was a film from the early 70's being rereleased without any retooling. If that sounds like a supreme insult to the animators just expect considering I haven't yet described the movie.
'Thumbelina' is some other in a long cord of duds from sometime Disney animator Don Bluth. He has made wonderful movies like 'The Secret of NIMH', 'The Land Before Time' and two underrated films 'Anastasia' and 'Titan A.E.'. But, Thumbelina isn't a work of imagination, information technology is a striking assumption that kids will swallow upwardly anything that y'all throw at them as long as it happens to be animated.
To begin with Thumbelina herself is a lifeless bore. She is every bit big as a thumb and falls in love with a geek named Cornelius. I have no problem when animated heroines expect away and dream of what could be, merely about the eighth or ninth fourth dimension that Thumbelina did that, I started thinking that she didn't need Cornelius, as much as she needed an anti-depressant.
Most every supporting character in the film seems preoccupied with trying to go the girl married off to everyone simply Cornelius. She is kidnapped by a Toad who tries to ally her to one of her sons. We meet an alarmingly dismal cast a characters, all of whom are thrown in to sing a song, practise a trip the light fantastic and so let some other graphic symbol have a plow (the songs by Barry Manilow range from forgettable to instantly forgettable).
Then Cornelius shows up to rescue her. He's a goofy looking doofus with a bad hairstyle and a personality equally languid as tree bawl. Then there is the animation in which every scene seems flushed and faded as if the moving picture had sat on the shelf for about a decade and a half. As I watched the film I wondered if I was seeing a bad print. This is one of the near worn out animated features that I've ever seen.
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Thumbelina
My head hurts, both from the stupid characters and the infigurable plot.
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What happened to the dandy Don Bluth???!!!
I was shocked subsequently watching this movie! Yes, I sat all the way through!
Permit'south commencement off by this short summary of Don Bluth which explains my deepest wonder nigh this agonizing moving-picture show:
The man who worked for Disney left information technology to persue his own animation career, was a tough rival to Disney in the 80's with great blithe movies like The Hugger-mugger of NIMH (1982), An American Tail (1986), The State Before Time (1988) and All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989). And so Disney came back on track with their animated musicals, and Bluth follows in their footsteps after observing their success. He should have been able to practice that in his sleep, only it turns out one atrocious picture after the other leaving his normally thought-provoking and grim stories behind in substitution for ugly and bland bodyguard forage with unlikable characters and terrible songs.
About "Thumbelina": We have a principal graphic symbol who spends almost the entire picture show whining most either her size or that any effort of helping herself get what she seeks is hopeless. She constantly makes bad choices every unmarried time she meets a new acqaintance in the unknown nature. That is dumb and irresponsible and by no means a good case for kids.
The animals she meets are either annoying, useless or unlikable, so they do not assist lifting this poor Disney wannabe out of the garbage can. Speaking of which, the just partially enjoyable song in this movie is strikingly similar to Disney'south Aladdin'due south giant hitting "A Whole New Globe", yes, Bluth was certainly desperate.
The rest is short, the songs are generally awful, the animation is sub-par to his before work, the vocalism interim was besides mostly lousy, but the beautiful vocalization of Jodi Benson stuck out equally decent. Her singing vocalisation is amazing, but her lines were terrible as mentioned before. Notice nosotros accept two actors famous for their Disney roles, Benson from "The Little Mermaid" and Gilbert Gottfried from "Aladdin".
I'd say avoid this movie, I only watched information technology to see how bad Bluth'due south xc'due south movies were and this was very bad.
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Jodi Benson is back in another animated version of an Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale
Jodi Benson is back in another animated version of another Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale - Thumbelina. This time Don Bluth (director of An American Tail) took charge of production. I was shocked by the negativity towards it and I know I said that many times, (and I am sorry) but I love this film from starting time to end. You know, it's kind of hard to cull which picture version of the story is the best. I would say that this version and the Japanese animated version made xvi years ago are the best versions; I'thou not one to take sides you know.
I should also tell y'all folks, that Thumbelina is another favorite story from the pen of Hans Andersen, because of the fairies and I believe in fairies. So, my last words are that I love this Don Bluth classic and I always volition.
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An OK Adaptation if you wait some flaws
As of 2011, Don Bluth continues to live as 1 of the all-time blitheness directors of all time. The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, and All Dogs Go To Heaven were his most successful films yet and 1 of the most decent movies he has done was "Thumbelina" based on the story past Hans Christian Anderson.
It revolves effectually Thumbelina, a small person, who meets a fairy prince named Cornelius and accept now fall in love. Later, she stumbles upon an run a risk as lots of hirsuite creatures effort to marry Thumbelina.
Now, I oasis't read the story or The Little Mermaid at all, but for a blithe adaptation, this one is just a decent motion picture.
I'll become for the bad parts: The story line was butchered and underdeveloped it attempts to be a Disney-clone and the characters were also underdeveloped. The dialogue was so lame it makes the characters lose their personalities.
The good parts are: The animation and art pattern were very colorful and creative, the songs may not be the best I've heard (especially with Let Me Be Your Wings and I'll admit it was a "Whole New World" ripoff) but they were OK for the well-nigh role, the characters were very decent, and the voice acting wasn't that bad with the all-time coming from Jodi Benson.
Thumbelina isn't as good as Bluth'southward successful works and I do understand the criticism it received, but information technology's not as terrible as I thought it would be. Aye, the story and characters could've been better, but at to the lowest degree the music score makes the movie kind of watchable and only for little kids. Then, I'll give this a decent rating.
6/10
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Highly recommendable for children, only not so much for grown-ups
"Thumbelina" is notorious for being probably the only animated picture that won or was nominated for a Razzie. While certainly non a great motion picture, I strongly disagree nearly the Razzie towards information technology. If we're talking about animated films that should definitely be priced with Razzies, then let's take a look at movies like "Pocahontas ii", "Dwelling on the Range", "101 Dalmatians II", "Madagascar" "Shrek" trilogy and "Monsters & Inc", for example.
Enough talking well-nigh other movies. At present let'due south talk about what really matters on this review: this one in particular.
"Thumbelina" is beautiful and a lilliputian too childish at the same fourth dimension. For that reason, I recommend it more for kids than adults. I believe that more likely kids will love it. However, I'g not and then sure about adults. I am a grown upward guy now and I acknowledge that I used to like this amend when I was younger.
The primary grapheme of the movie, Thumbelina, is a cute and pretty girl. The idea of Thumbelina being as small-scale as a thumb is cute but surreal and too kittenish at the same time, likewise as the thought of her "female parent" equally a normal man being, which ways admittedly gigantic for Thumbelina.
The dog with a mustache is ugly outside, but his beauty is on the inside. He's one of the best characters from this movie. Other great characters are Thumbelina, the Prince Cornelius and the french bird Jacquimo.
Just if there'south 1 thing that bugs me almost this picture is its unbelievable frogs, as well every bit the fact that this movie features also much bugs, non to mention that Mr. Mole and Mrs. Fieldmouse are boring characters. Also, the songs by the frogs, the bugs and Mrs. Fieldmouse are quite weak. On the other hand, Jacquimo sings very nice and blithesome songs with a french amuse and accent.
The artwork is very good, most at the same level every bit Disney's standards. But, like I said, besides much frogs and bugs kinda ruined this picture for me.
Only the worst thing most this movie is the whole matter of a frog and a beetle always chasing Thumbelina. What kind of nonsense is this supposed to be??
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Thumbelina
It is a decent picture show to have a good time with the family; it has a passable plot, the animation is good, and some songs are tricky; it is not as bad equally they say and it is enjoyable.
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A lovely blithe moving picture despite its filler scenes and somewhat slow pace
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I might have seen a little bit of this moving picture when I was younger and after having forgotten most it for many years, I re-discovered it on IMDb and have wanted to run across it for ages. When I was flicking through the channels last week, I caught this movie from the beginning on Motion picture Mix (a film aqueduct on Freeview in the UK) just just watched about the first 20 minutes because I had a Zumba course to nourish. I before long decided to hire the film from LoveFilm and upon watching it the whole way through, I quite enjoyed it despite its scenes of filler and slightly sluggish pacing.
The animation is satisfactory if not as superior as that in 'All Dogs Go To Heaven' and 'Anastasia (my accented favourite Don Bluth films).' It was more often than not fluid with good cel shading and eye-catching colour schemes (such as the warmth of Cornelius'southward parents) just a tad flickery and blurry in places. A lot of the background art is intricate simply some of information technology had CGI that stuck out a little also much. The musical score by, I believe, Barry Manilow is beautiful with the odd utilize of angelic choral vocals and the songs were well worth listening if most of them were divide all over the place. My favourites are the uplifting 'Follow Your Heart (both the slower version at the beginning despite it being in a function I initially institute irrelevant to the principal plot and the faster version later in the film),' the whimsically upbeat 'Thumbelina,' the lovely 'Soon (if it was initially forgettable but the reprise by Thumbelina'due south mother is suitably moving),' the sensational 'Allow Me Be Your Wings (plus the instrumental orchestral version at the beginning and the typical 90s-popular-ballad-sounding version over the cease credits),' the energetic and authentic 'On The Road,' the hip-hop inspired song performed at the protrude gild and the unintentionally funny 'Marry the Mole,' in which the line nigh Romeo and Juliet existence "very, very dead" is terrible only the offset brilliantly sounds like 'The Hymeneals March/Here Comes the Bride.' While the dialogue has a few fairytale clichés, it is clever and amusing in parts. The all-time aspects of the story are Thumbelina wanting to marry Cornelius and wanting to go home when she is kidnapped but in addition to the filler, I felt that certain scenes didn't really go anywhere and I plant the ending rushed but the story had some clever links such as the CGI-ish if pretty snowflakes separating Thumbelina wishing she could exist back with her female parent and her mother singing the reprise of 'Soon'. Moving on to the voice interim, Jodi Benson beautifully voiced the ambitious Thumbelina if she sounded similar a college pitched Ariel while Gilbert Gottfried'due south voice for Mr. Protrude sounded similar to his vocalization for Iago in 'Aladdin.' On a slightly more positive note, I liked Gino Conforti'southward French emphasis for Jacquimo the eat and Charo's Castilian Accent for Mrs. (or Ma.) Toad. I also liked the tiny story volume used at the beginning and the end as well as the volume illustrations, some of which had a stained drinking glass look to them.
Overall this isn't quite Bluth's best but it was worth watching for the music and the main plot. eight/10.
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This movie is very cute
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But, there are some quite serious flaws, starting with the principal character. She comes into the earth with an adolescent torso but the mind of a child, and not a very bright one at that. I suppose this makes sense in as much as she hasn't had time for learning, meeting other people or gaining experience, but it would raise serious ethical issues in a not-cartoon earth, given that the plot is basically about who she'due south going to ally - the prince or the growing number of other enthusiastic suitors. It also explains her reaction to beingness kidnapped, as with Pinnochio-similar innocence her initial annoyance is transformed by the promises of the kidnappers to guide her to fame and fortune. Which brings united states to another problem, which is some messages that may escape primary school children but probably not high-school ones. The kidnappers are stereotypical Mexicans, although purportedly Spanish. And when the fieldmouse is encouraging her to marry the mole she says "He may be blind simply at least his eyes are blue". Then there's this unabridged plot based around a young woman's time to come being entirely geared to marrying her prince and 'living happily ever after' and, in this case, 1 tin't run across this heroine actually existence able to fend for herself. There is i scene where she shows decisiveness, but immediately marches off into a snowstorm and has to be rescued. It too feeds into the dangerous meme that it you want something strongly enough it will come up true, which glosses over the entire notion of training and development and other people also having freedom of choice. Merely equally I said, it is very cute and volition exist lapped up by children up to a certain age and those older people who are absorbed by 'cute' (I fear I am probably one), merely anybody over x should be warned that to really appreciate it they'll take to just accept its flaws and try to ignore them.
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my childhood!
this movie is so great!! I honey the animation in information technology and I dear the songs in information technology equally well. Jodi Benson is a fantastic voice actress. She is so sweetness and innocent as Thumbelina and you desire her to meet her true honey and fall in honey. The prince in this is so great too and they have amazing chemistry! This is such a sweet and a elementary story. I will always dear it and information technology will ever exist a classic to me.
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Thumbelina... it falls short
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Information technology seems every story about that has Thumbelina in it seems to always talk about her finding beloved and so being taken to marry some other animate being only to exist rescued past her lover. This one is no exception to the trend. The outset i I watched was a mole, now it'southward a toad, what will be next? Perchance a caterpillar? Information technology seems like in this version everyone wants to take Thumbelina as their bride. It feels sort of annoying because it was one thing later on some other. Information technology was OK for an gamble story for kids but to me, the concept was going a bit long. When information technology's about 45 minutes of zilch but people fighting over her without fifty-fifty letting her have a say, it just bugs me. And and then she picks someone who had almost no real graphic symbol growth and was this side prince looking for her. Only… the characters felt boring and predictable. The simply graphic symbol who had any personality was a… I want to say French… sparrow who would sing about love and effort to push the two lovers together. And he didn't even have much too fifty-fifty do in the story, he but would sing songs of honey and slightly effort to be the voice of wisdom though even then, he only talked about the thoughts in ones centre and non their head. Somehow I don't think that's beingness the voice of wisdom but he was the better one out of any of them.
The animation was actually the ameliorate part of the bear witness. It was beautifully done and rather clean. The only trouble I had was characters would motility slightly strange, putting their arms up in means that feel slightly awkward. Other then that, the wear is actually fluid and I didn't really find any hiccups in the blitheness where they would forget something or they would forget a frame or two. The characters are really beautiful, looking much more proportional then some other's I watched, except for The frogs. I don't think they really ever seen a frog before because next to all the other characters, they but wait similar blobs. The brothers act more similar Moe, Curly, and Larry by the manner. Smacking each other and acting like idiots, you could wonder if they are but in their for one-act. Sadly, even when I was piffling, I just did not get the sense of humour.
The soundtrack to this is actually non that bad though there are a lot of songs. Some sound like Disney songs while other's fall pretty flat. The same goes for the voice acting as I liked some but others merely did non take enough power that they should, Characters similar Thumbelina (might I remind you chief character here) sounds way to placidity and childish. I don't like her's much. Why the characters have such strange ascents also is beyond me. You start with Jaquimo who is a French ascension (Beautifully done I recall), then we have The crazy toad family that sounds like a mixture of Spanish and French with a petty bit of Jamaican, the unmistakable voice of Gilbert Gottfried equally Mr. Protrude (Seriously, what the hell is that accent anyway?) and and so Thumbelina and her Female parent, even the fairies, have a sometime English ascent making me want to yell out 'choose a country already!' All these things add together upward to a movie that doesn't exactly live upwardly expectations. If feels like it hit the mark a scrap flat from where information technology should of though at the time of its release, it was a pretty big seller if I remember correctly. I had even went to encounter it in the movies when I was piffling which was a big bargain being a family unit with not that much coin or time.
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Do not believe the reviews, this is a garbage film
I hate to be that guy, just the majority of positive reviews are by people who liked this motion picture equally kids. Less than 20 minutes in there is a blatant ripoff of "A Whole New World" from Aladdin. Every bit with virtually all Don Bluth movies, this is just diet Disney. The phonation acting is hit and miss, the story has the surgical precision of a chainsaw, and if anyone wants to make a joke most how sexually deprived Disney animators seen to be, they should picket a Don Bluth motion-picture show. This is terrible and anyone who says otherwise must be bullheaded or delusional.
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What tin I say about this movie...?
ONE thing you tin say nearly this atrocious, atrocious moving picture is that the reviews of it are pure entertainment. This is similar one of those vacations where the brochure is more fun than the trip. Maybe that's what Bluth intended because he knew that every attribute of Thumbelina is totally horrid and only worthwhile every bit cloth for creative IMDB users who want to shoot information technology downwardly. The only good part of this movie is when John Hurt shows up as this mole who's and then desperate for a spouse that he'southward really considering Thumbelina. E'er noble, perhaps the greatest humanitarian of our time.. Who but John Injure would try to assist this wretched motion-picture show that is a 76-minute effect of whatever extraterrestrial brain-sucking creature got a grip on Don Bluth's head in 1990 and hasn't since let become or stopped feeding? (Though it did vomit in '97 and return to him enough sentience to produce Anastasia.)
This is the WORST. (Except for peradventure A Troll in Central Park, which I haven't seen.) Worse than Rock A Doodle and much worse than The Pebble and the Penguin, total of songs I could criticize if only I could retrieve anything about them, full of blah like the "follow your middle" spiel which is trite here, well later on beingness trite in The Land Before Fourth dimension, and before being trite in Nimh 2 and Cinderella 2. The plot is incomprehensible all effectually, following Thum as she dances effectually with a bunch of racially insensitive frogs and then gets involved (somehow) with a lot of insects.. I don't even think how. Trying to call upwards the reasons and explanations but they but aren't coming considering zero makes sense in this moving picture. (Characters appear and then just leave at random.) As well information technology'southward BORING. I Then wanted to plow it off, and had to force myself to become through the whole thing without striking the FF button.. (I knew if I touched information technology even once, it'd be all over.) I can't excogitate of any reason why ANYone over 2 years old would like this movie. The just cute matter in it is the fuzzy bumblebee that Cornelius rides-- nothing else is even remotely interesting or worthwhile. It is NOT practiced for the whole family. I highly do not recommend renting this for a family unit nighttime or a solo night or any nighttime. Oh and don't be fooled by the trailer, which is highly deceptive as it includes the simply really coherent sequence in the whole thing, the part where Thum and Cornelius first meet.
For more than intelligent fare, rent any of the Teletubbie adventures and be nonplussed past their sophistication.
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Guilty Pleasance
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If I'm going to be technically honest, it's not a great movie. If I'g going to be nostalgically honest, I like information technology and don't finish watching it.
The story'southward about a girl that is named Thumbelina (who is no bigger than your thumb), her love for the fairy prince Cornelius, and the three villains that desire to marry her. Nearly the same as the original story, just adding the prince being a major grapheme, songs, side plots with the villains, setting it in Paris, and brute side characters, one of which gets a principal part (Jacquimo the eat).
While I like this pic a lot, there are a lot of problems with the movie. One is that it came out around the time Disney was making such beloved classics such as Piddling Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Lion King which came out the same year as this movie. If it waited a few more years after, it might have had a amend take a chance. In fact the story resembles The Little Mermaid in many ways (same writer, vocalisation actress Jodi Benson, and unique pilus). And the music is a hitting and miss. Half of the songs are irritating, ane of which won a Razzie (Marry the Mole) and another sung by Gilbert Gotfried. Merely the biggest consequence has got to exist that Thumbelina had every chance to get home since Jacquimo could fly, but he doesn't even attempt to have her dwelling house, tell any of the jitterbugs to take hold of her by the arms and fly her to the meridian of a flower, or even fly above and tell her what management to get while he searches for her prince. He merely leaves her to await on her own. In the original story information technology made sense, because there are no friends to help her, and she doesn't meet the swallow until the stop. Likewise, she couldn't figure out where she was, so she legitimately gave upwards. This Thumbelina has friends to become her home but nobody helps her, nor does she think to inquire them to wing her dwelling house, except with ane of the villains, but as that's not 1 of her allies that doesn't quite count.
However, for all its flaws, I still love it. The animation is beautiful, and it'southward easy to see the hard work on the graphic symbol designs, fairy wings, fairy magic, and backgrounds. Information technology almost is like Disney animation and yet not quite; information technology'south its ain thing. The mode it's animated makes you feel like you're the same height as the primary characters. In my opinion, some of the best animation tin can exist seen in the song "Let Me Be Your Wings." Speaking of which, I consider that to be the best vocal in the entire motion picture. Yes it's a knock off of "A Whole New World" and the romance may exist rushed, but the lyrics are well done, the music is cute, and of grade the duet is wonderful. Jodi Benson singing is a saving grace for even the bad songs. Also, I think the voices are spot on, including Carol Channing equally Field Mouse. Something about her vocalism really does audio a bit like a dry, cynical, greedy mouse. And as bad as "Marry the Mole" was, I requite her credit for trying to brand the vocal piece of work, and that it didn't terminate the plot. It's not a good song, I don't similar it, but I don't think it's the worst either. And for everyone who loves the original story better, this movie encouraged me to read the story. It's not my favorite Anderson story, but it's a lovely picayune run a risk.
What amazes me about this movie is that it got harsher criticism than A Troll in Central Park when it first came out. While A Troll in Central Park likewise has amazing blitheness, that movie was pandering and nothing but filler. This pic has an actual plot; an not very well done plot, but at to the lowest degree tried to be something decent. I don't care if it's a "Disney knock-off"; I recollect it's not terrible. This was probably a hard story for Don Bluth to adapt to a characteristic length film, just I'm not sure if even Disney would tackle it. I don't terminate enjoying the pic, just at the aforementioned time I empathise the flaws.
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Razzie winner...?!
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I just adored this movie as a kid. Thumbelina (voiced by Jodi Benson- best known for Ariel on "The Little Mermaid") is well, um, a little lady, needless to say. She meets up with fairy Prince Cornelius (HA!HA! His proper noun!) after a romantic sing-vocal in Corny's bee she's kidnapped past a toad (way to become, Charo!). Ma Toad tries to convince Thumbelina to join her and her three toady sons to go with them "On the Road"- a catchy little song- where she promises that she'll make Thumb a superstar. Thumb gets abroad from her thanks to Jaquimo (my favourite grapheme) and equally she tries to observe her way dwelling she has a few adventures just, as you lot'd expect, it all ends happily ever later. I was just shocked when I found out that this got a Razzie for "Marry the Mole!". I similar that song- it'south incredibly funny and NOT meant to be taken seriously. And so just sentinel this motion-picture show without expecting logic from it and you lot'll have a expert time. Thank you for reading this and take a squeamish 24-hour interval! :)
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