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I have an old Disney Adventures magazine which touts "Anastasia" as a Disney movie....true!

I think the music was wonderful truly an over looked film

pap64 wrote:

Cordy_Biddle wrote:A lot of people unfavourably compared "Thumbelina" to Bluth's earlier "Secret of NIMH", especially the woodland scenes and cutesy bug characters.

That IS unfavorable! Even if Secret of NIHM had cute character the story was anything BUT cute. Its a story of a single mother trying to raise her children, save the life of her youngest child and uncover a big conspiracy.

I am sure its the same people that say Anastasia is Disney .

Holy shit that's exact similar plot line as The anime version of Witchblade.

Just so you know, I have never seen Witchblade, and its been ages since I last saw NIHM. I do know its about a single mother whose youngest child is dying and that there's a mystery surrounding the rats of NIHM.

I really should pick up the DVD of 'Secret of NIMH' one of these days. The music score (Jerry Goldsmith I believe) is gorgeous and the "Flying Dreams" theme always makes me cry.

You're welcome!

Btw, Cordy_Biddle, I would have sent it to you too, but I didn't know your e-mail. You can PM me with it if you don't want to post it in this thread.

Hi, I was wondering if you can email the soundtrack too.

Zapper954@fuse.net

Done!

EDIT: TSoD, few e-mails bounced back, there's apparently something up with your e-mail quota, please clean it up so I could send you the rest of the tracks .

I've always found Thumbelina a hard movie to watch. I think it might be all the cutesy-cutesiness. I do enjoy several parts of it though--the songs, Charo as Momma Toad ("We don't do ballads."), Carol Channing, and the duet and ending scene (where Thumbelina's singing at the briar patch and the wedding). I just always hated the parts with the bird and the beetle.

Oh, and the wedding scene with the mole was a nice part, too.

Thumbelina has the most exquisite soundtrack! Barry Manilow really took this film to a new level with the songs. I still sing You Will Be My Wings andSoon with my crazy friend (literally, she is crazy haha ). Such an enchanting movie, although I always knew it wasn't Disney. Thumbelina is lacking visually. I knew disney would never put a film out the way it looked the same year they released the Lion King! Still adore the film, though

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I heard disney tried ti buy this film befor its release is it true?
Also i heard that they did a pre screening with the disney logo before it and it did quite well.

Any animated movie released in the same year as "The Lion King" was doomed to fail--wasn't this (1994) also the year of 'The Swan Princess'?

Cordy_Biddle wrote:Any animated movie released in the same year as "The Lion King" was doomed to fail--wasn't this (1994) also the year of 'The Swan Princess'?

Yes however Swan Princess got well receive VHS success to make up for that.

only two animated movie I believe that beaten those two in box office and got numerous high praise that year was Lion King and Batman: Mask of Phantasm. Batman didn't well in box office either but that was because it wasn't advertise enough which is shame since Batman probably would of even beaten Lion King in Box Office.

oh and Thumbelina is only animated film to win a Razzie award

oh and Thumbelina is only animated film to win a Razzie award

Completely undeserved in my book. Should have gone to the animated re-make of 'The King & I'.

This is really sending me down Ye Younge Memory Lane. I remember feeling some sort of connection to all the songs in Thumbelina, including Soon. I sang the sun song whenever I was depressed as a little kid, which was unfortunately often, but I also remember empathizing with Thumbelina's longing expressed in Soon.

It was interesting. I couldn't see why she wanted a boyfriend, and in fact thought it was unfair and selfish of her to up and marry and leave behind her mother after her mother had been worried about her missing daughter for such a long time. Really, fate was cruel to the woman. She wanted a child so badly, and she was given a teenager who was quickly married. I always thought that was unfair.

Anyway, I also appreciated Thumbelina's longing because the whole reason she wanted to meet fairies was to find others like her and the girl basically predicted all her feelings to come. She was almost born knowing she was different, but she harnessed her emotions in to wanting to be more than she was: to have wings, to soar. I translated a lot out of this film as a kindergartner.

But now that I remember, good grief, I sang the songs too much to anyone and everyone!

You've perfectly summed up Thumbelina's entire internal makeup. Though as a child I used to like believing that Thumbelina's new life with Cornelius was only as far as the bottom of her mother's garden--that way they'd see each other all the time.

Cordy_Biddle wrote:You've perfectly summed up Thumbelina's entire internal makeup.

Then my memory must not be too bad. I still haven't seen this movie for over a decade. You had a sweet and positive theory, but didn't Cornelius hail from an entire kingdom that wasn't near Thumbelina's mother's house?

What...you mean he didn't cut the apron-strings when he got married?

i wonder if thumbelina will get a speciald ed dvd? soon?

amazon980 wrote: Also i heard that they did a pre screening with the disney logo before it and it did quite well.

I just read about this on IMDB and on tvtropes.org. How is this possible? How is it legal?

I've never seen the film, and I just watched the trailer; I don't remember much about the trailer, but I probably saw the trailer on TV as a kid...I guess I never had an interest in seeing it. I think that Thumbelina is pretty, but I don't like the design of some of the animals. I just wrote it on my "to rent" list, though...it doesn't necessarily look that good, but it wouldn't hurt to see it.