snperera this movie is so great!! I love the animation in it and I love the songs in it as well. Jodi Benson is a fantastic voice actress. She is so sweet and innocent as Thumbelina and you want her to meet her true love and fall in love. The prince in this is so great too and they have amazing chemistry! This is such a sweet and a simple story. I will always love it and it will always be a classic to me.

IllogicalGenius 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'

Stompgal_87 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.

LadyMiraculous They do say that art is subjective, but in this film's case, it is VERY subjective. Yes, I was one of those people that loved this movie as a little kid, and being the Don Bluth fan that I am, I wanted to give it a try again as an adult, and I must say, while it is marginally better than "Bartok the Magnificent"and "A Troll in Central Park", it fails to have the lasting impact of the 80's Don Bluth films, and "Anastasia"."Thumbelina", as a film, is mediocre at best. I know that the Hans Christian Anderson version didn't have a lot of substance to it either, but that story was written in a time were fairy tales were more simpler and by-the-book. This movie's main problem was that it tries to stick too close to the original fairy tale, that it comes off as boring and well, rather, predictable. Thumbelina herself, unfortunately, is not very interesting as a heroine. She's constantly getting kidnapped by shady-looking animals, and never really learning from her mistakes (except when it involves love or romance). Then we have her love interest, Cornielious, who's hardly in the movie, an obnoxious love-crazy Swallow named Jaquimoe, and a group of antagonistic animals who have only one common goal: Steal Thumbelina's hand in marriage and/or use her talents for money! I know "Rock-A-Doodle" and "Pebble and the Penguin" weren't particularly spectacular either, but at least they had some creativity put into their stories. "Rock-A-Doodle" even had a handful of likable characters, this movie only had one likable character (Mr. Beetle). The point is, Don Bluth was usually known for making original stories. Stories that often separate themselves from the Disney formula. This movie tries so hard to be like a Disney film, that it ends up looking like a shallow ripoff.So Don, where ever you are right now, don't stop doing what you love, and please stick with what you're really good at.