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Pluskylang Great Film overall

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Sancy Jeg 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.

Anssi Vartiainen Thumbelina, from director Don Bluth, is one of those animated films where the material is utterly wasted on such good animators. Because this is a pretty movie. The colours are soft as cotton candy, the character designs are creative and it's just utterly gorgeous to watch. But the story is nonsensical, the main character is so passive that half of the time I had to question whether she was even breathing, and all in all it simply jumps around too much.So yeah, Thumbelina is a tiny girl. One of the little people, the size of a finger in fact, and for the longest time she and her adopted human mother believed that she was the only one. Until one night a fairy prince flies by on his bumblebee steed, and wouldn't you know it, love at first glance. But then she gets taken by some Latino circus frogs - I just realized I had to type that, give 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 done 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 alone in little over an hour. And I mean it. Scarcely a scene goes by without someone breaking out the background dancers. It's ridiculous! Some of them are okay. But then there are so many of them that it would be a small miracle if they didn't hit at least a few catchy notes.It's a mess. It has good things in it, certainly, but the overall structure, or lack thereof, means that it's hard to enjoy them properly. Still, if you're into Don Bluth or great animation in general, it just might be worth your while.

Irishchatter I have never seen this version of Thumbelina before. I remember being in playschool, the other little kids and myself watched another version in which I can't seem to find on the Internet. 22 Years later in 2016, I managed to come across this little movie. This movie came out the year I was born so there was no way I couldn't have watched it! Anyways I will tell you what I have a thought about it!I honestly didn't know Jodi Benson aka Ariel was on this, as usual she always has her incredible singing voice. Seriously, I'm so glad she took part in being involved as 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 gem. The drawings were absolutely beautiful. It's too bad nowadays, we normally use 3-D for movies. When I have my own kids, I will definitely show this to them! They would absolutely love to see it!

joliefille411 If there was ever proof that the "it doesn't matter cause the kid's won't notice" philosophy has any reason to exist, Thumbelina just might be it. I distinctly remember liking this movie, if not exactly loving it, when it was first released. But oh, how time changes things.Not everything about Thumbelina is entirely terrible. Jodi Benson still has a lovely voice and the "I want" song and love ballad, though moderately bland, remain largely unoffensive to the ear. Even Charo's performance had me cracking a smile. But beyond that...Characterwise, everyone is a nutcase, with the exception of the Mother, who gets the least screen time of anyone. Thumbelina is frankly dumb as a post, lacking anything that resembles a mind of her own. The other villains and protagonists alike garner no prizes in the brain category, but they make up for it with either general maliciousness or extra-large doe eyes. Jacquiamo does have the distinction of being the animated world's Jar-Jar Binks with his overblown french faerieness.Visually, the film isn't much of a stunner either. The leads, while not precisely ugly, have the absolute most ridiculous hairstyles I have seen outside of an indie space flick. The computer scenes, like the opening sequence and the frog boat are so jarringly CGI that the simply jerk you out of the experience of the movie to goggle at the disjunct. Don Bluth is well loved for his distinct visual style that at one point appeared to rival the Disney Empire. Part of what I love about films like All Dogs Go To Heaven is that they are so entirely unlike Disney fare, unlike most anything else out there at all. Thumbelina represents a different Bluth, one who began to doubt that he could overtake the big bad corporation, and scrambled together a bad imitation. It just doesn't take to his style, plus no one can ever out-Disney Disney.