Searching round for an animation DVD to pick up for a friend as a Christmas gift,I was surprised to stumble across a Rainbow Brite boxset,which along with containing the entire series,also featured a spin-off movie.With having some memories of the show,and also having never heard about the movie version before,I felt that it would be a good time to find out how "brite" this rainbow really is.The plot:Visiting earth from Rainbow Land,so that she can officially bring the long Winter season to an end,Rainbow Brite is horrified to discover that someone has stopped sunlight from reaching earth,by covering up a near by diamond planet called Spectra.Fearing that all life will soon die out on earth,Brite rushes to the planet Spectra,where she soon finds out,that diamonds really aren't forever.View on the film:Despite the supporting character's having ear gratingly high-pitched voices,the lead voice cast thankfully contrast this,by each giving terrific performances,with Peter Cullen, (aka:Optimus Prime!) stealing every scene as the boo-hiss baddie Murky Dismal,and Bettina Bush giving a graceful performance as Rainbow Brite.Shooting the film in a "key" animation style, (where the bare minimum of a character's movement is used) director's Bernard Deyries and Kimio Yabuki cover the movie's clear low budget (the movie held the record for being the quickest animated film production:3 months) by splashing primary colour's across the screen,which with showing the dark shadow chocking out the light from the planet Spectra,also gives this delightfully brite rainbow a shining appearance.

when i was a child this was the movie i watched. i think it is a great movie for the kids to watch and parents don't have to be afraid of any violence or obscene images. rainbow brite is a cheerful young girl and she is trying to make the winter go away. she finds that something or someone is trying to steal the source of life and keep it for themselves. i love this movie and i think that even adults can enjoy this movie.

This was the very first movie I ever saw in the theatre by myself. I was 7 years old, and to this day it is one of my favorite movies. It's pure smarmy cheese. The cartoon was marketed towards young girls, selling dolls with soft bodies and big plastic heads, one for every colour of the rainbow, with their own special animals, 'sprites' and even a talking rainbow horse. Typical of the time period, each show was about how hope, togetherness and magic can make 'everything all better'.The movie concerns the coming of spring, when all the light and colour returns to the world, but this time it just isn't happening for our lovely hero. A spoiled Princess plots to overtake the soul lightgiver (and implied life giver)of the universe, which happens to be a giant diamond, for her own devious purposes, with no regard for reality, and now Rainbow and her newly found friends Orin, Onyx and Chris must save the universe. As I said before, it's cheesy, but it's cute, and it's exactly like all of the other cartoons from that time period, like the CareBear movies, Strawberry Shortcake, Rose Petal and the Smurfs. All movies created to sell dolls to kids. And it works. :)

I saw this movie on videotape with my younger brother a long time ago, despite the fact I was a young boy who's hearing impaired. I didn't have the closed captioning decoder at the time (it was 1986, the year of The Transformers: The Movie), but I could follow the plot and understand what's going on. It wasn't my fault I saw the animated movie intended for girls. My father rented the video to show to my other younger sister. A decade later and I rented the video (for 50 cents) to watch again with the closed captioning turned on. My memories of this movie was utterly destroyed by none other than a WRETCHED SCRIPT. I have seen plenty of poorly written movies (like COOL AS ICE and JASON GOES TO HELL: THE FINAL FRIDAY), but I have never seen (or heard) the dialogues this bad, only inundating with enough inanity to make your head spin from laughing in hysterics and screaming from the pain of enduring the torture of sitting through this movie. Despite good plot and intriguing story concepts, the script has to be ONE OF THE WORST EVER WRITTEN FOR THE SCREEN, BAR NONE! The incompetent Howard R. Cohen should never be working as a screenwriter, professional or otherwise. I can not believe they would even allow the terrible script to produce a movie like this in the first place. Did the Japanese producers read the script, in broken English or translated before they know what they were into? Even crap like G.I. Joe The Movie and My Little Pony The Movie have redeeming values compared to this abomination.If you're a big fan of 80s animation, or just taking a nostalgia trip, BEWARE OF RAINBOW BRITE AND THE STAR STEALER! It does not matter whether you were elated or traumatized by the sloppily animated movie with an atrociously written script, or you have not seen the movie, STAY AWAY FROM THIS MOVIE. The movie should be viewed with the precaution to learn how NOT to write a bad script!