Thumbelina (1994)

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I was shocked after watching this movie! Yes, I sat all the way through! Let's start off by this short summary of Don Bluth which explains my deepest wonder about this disturbing movie: The man who worked for Disney left it to persue his own animation career, was a tough rival to Disney in the 80's with great animated movies like The Secret of NIMH (1982), An American Tail (1986), The Land Before Time (1988) and All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989). Then 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 do that in his sleep, but it turns out one awful movie after the other leaving his usually thought-provoking and grim stories behind in exchange for ugly and bland babysitter fodder with unlikable characters and terrible songs. About "Thumbelina": We have a main character who spends almost the entire movie whining about either her size or that any attempt of helping herself get what she seeks is hopeless. She constantly makes bad choices every single time she meets a new acqaintance in the unknown nature. That is dumb and irresponsible and by no means a good example for kids. The animals she meets are either annoying, useless or unlikable, so they do not help lifting this poor Disney wannabe out of the garbage can. Speaking of which, the only partially enjoyable song in this movie is strikingly similar to Disney's Aladdin's giant hit "A Whole New World", yeah, Bluth was certainly desperate. The rest is short, the songs are mostly awful, the animation is sub-par to his earlier work, the voice acting was also mostly lousy, but the beautiful voice of Jodi Benson stuck out as decent. Her singing voice is amazing, but her lines were terrible as mentioned before. Notice we have 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 it to see how bad Bluth's 90's movies were and this was very bad.

I remember loving this film as a child, back when I was blissfully ignorant of the hidden themes. Now that I've watched it as an adult I have to say this has to be one of the most abysmal children's films ever. The story is very inappropriate. Thumbelina gets passed around like the flu at an elementary school and sexually harassed by nearly every male character she comes in contact with. Almost every other character physically and/or mentally abuses her. I don't know what kind of message the writers were going for, but that is not a good one to be giving to children.Sure the follow your dreams theme is good, but I don't see how getting lost, abused, and then at the end of the movie marrying a guy you've spent maybe an hour with counts as someone following their dreams. Even if that guy just happens to be a prince (shocker). The rest of the story doesn't provide much more in terms of quality. There is the stereotypical and unrealistic love at first site relationship and the problem of not fitting in and wanting more. The overall story has a lot of holes and spacing issues, with a very inaccurate time line. The characters were mostly terrible or annoying. The mother, for all the love she claims to have for Thumbelina, doesn't even go looking for her when she goes missing. Instead she sits at home in the off chance someone else will find her, even though she told no one the girl was missing.The only redeeming factor in the movie are the ballads. "Let Me Be Your Wings, "Soon", and "Soon (Reprise)" are all great songs, even if they seem out of place with the tone of the rest of the film. Thanks, Barry Manilow.

Thumbelina is one of the cute fairy tale I have ever seen. I liked all the songs from the movie. Especially, Thumbelina looks super cool in the 'beetle song' with awesome gown. This story is about a girl, size of a thumb who gets lost in miniature world and looks for her true love,Cornellius, a fairy prince. Thumbelina is now one of my favorite movie among other Disney princess movies i have seen. Surely little kid girls would love it, so I suggest them to watch it.

This is the first film I saw in the cinema as a child and re-watching it all was easily remembered including scenes and words to songs and how I felt at the time when seeing it, as I find with a lot of films I re- watch from childhood, 'I don't remember this happening...or this'. So it must've struck a chord with me. This is so underrated! If it was indeed a 'Disney' film ( as the trivia suggests ) it would've done so much better, such a shame for Warner Brothers. It's heart breaking to see such a genuinely good film be received so poorly. 'marry the mole' certainly wasn't the best number of the film but it had three other great songs to make up for it. Why it was so poorly received is beyond me, and I'm not wholly blinded by sentimentality, if I watched this for the first time today, I'd be enamoured, there is not a single boring segment or poorly written part to this film.'You're sure to do impossible things, If you follow your heart'