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.

During the closing credits of 'Thumbelina' I actually checked to see when this movie was made. Seriously, the animation in this movie is so tired and washed out that I thought 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 wait because I haven't yet described the movie.'Thumbelina' is another in a long string of duds from former 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, it is a striking assumption that kids will eat up anything that you throw at them as long as it happens to be animated.To begin with Thumbelina herself is a lifeless bore. She is as big as a thumb and falls in love with a geek named Cornelius. I have no problem when animated heroines look away and dream of what could be, but about the eighth or ninth time that Thumbelina did that, I started thinking that she didn't need Cornelius, as much as she needed an anti-depressant.Nearly every supporting character in the film seems preoccupied with trying to get the girl married off to everyone but Cornelius. She is kidnapped by a Toad who tries to marry her to one of her sons. We meet an alarmingly dismal cast a characters, all of whom are thrown in to sing a song, do a dance and then let another character have a turn (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 as languid as tree bark. Then there is the animation in which every scene seems flushed and faded as if the film 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 most worn out animated features that I've ever seen.

I might have seen a little bit of this film when I was younger and after having forgotten about it for many years, I re-discovered it on IMDb and have wanted to see it for ages. When I was flicking through the channels last week, I caught this film from the beginning on Movie Mix (a film channel on Freeview in the UK) but only watched about the first 20 minutes because I had a Zumba class to attend. I soon decided to rent 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 absolute favourite Don Bluth films).' It was mostly fluid with good cel shading and eye-catching colour schemes (such as the warmth of Cornelius's parents) but a tad flickery and blurry in places. A lot of the background art is intricate but some of it had CGI that stuck out a little too much. The musical score by, I believe, Barry Manilow is beautiful with the odd use of angelic choral vocals and the songs were well worth listening if most of them were split all over the place. My favourites are the uplifting 'Follow Your Heart (both the slower version at the beginning despite it being in a part I initially found irrelevant to the main plot and the faster version later on in the film),' the whimsically upbeat 'Thumbelina,' the lovely 'Soon (if it was initially forgettable but the reprise by Thumbelina's mother is suitably moving),' the sensational 'Let Me Be Your Wings (plus the instrumental orchestral version at the beginning and the typical 90s-pop-ballad-sounding version over the end credits),' the energetic and authentic 'On The Road,' the hip-hop inspired song performed at the beetle club and the unintentionally funny 'Marry the Mole,' in which the line about Romeo and Juliet being "very, very dead" is terrible but the beginning brilliantly sounds like 'The Wedding March/Here Comes the Bride.' While the dialogue has a few fairytale clichés, it is clever and amusing in parts. The best 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 found the ending rushed but the story had some clever links such as the CGI-ish if pretty snowflakes separating Thumbelina wishing she could be back with her mother and her mother singing the reprise of 'Soon'. Moving on to the voice acting, Jodi Benson beautifully voiced the ambitious Thumbelina if she sounded like a higher pitched Ariel while Gilbert Gottfried's voice for Mr. Beetle sounded similar to his voice for Iago in 'Aladdin.' On a slightly more positive note, I liked Gino Conforti's French accent for Jacquimo the swallow and Charo's Spanish Accent for Mrs. (or Ma.) Toad. I also liked the tiny story book used at the beginning and the end as well as the book illustrations, some of which had a stained glass look to them.Overall this isn't quite Bluth's best but it was worth watching for the music and the main plot. 8/10.

Anyone who thinks this is a "rip-off" of Disney films is far out of their league when it comes to good old fashioned "who came first" Hans Christian Anderson's timeless tale of a small girl with big dreams is interpreted wonderfully within this film, unlike other stories that Disney has animated such as The Little Mermaid and Snow white in which didn't follow the original story whatsoever. I think this is a fantastic movie for everyone of all ages because it's a more realistic "princess" movie.Unlike what the clichéd princess genre portrays, Thumbelina follows a young girl who is subject to bad advice, harsh criticisms, and sheltered from the outside world with no true knowledge of how other people act or should act. It shows as Thumbelina find her way towards a more secure view of herself after being told throughout the film she isn't good enough. After being told lies and almost being forced to marry someone she doesn't love, Thumbelina eventually takes her life into her own hands and stops being subjected to what others try to make her believe.For everyone who thinks this is a "rip-off" of Disney princess movies; One must always realize that Thumbelina was not subject to one specific bad guy like everyone else. Her adventure also follows the true story of Thumbelina by Hans Christian Anderson closer than any other "princess" movie I've ever seen.