Truly Dreadful Film

Fantastic!

Beautiful, moving film.

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

The Movie about Eric, a young boy who reading reading a book, and of course his teenager sister named Jill who check on him. Eric totally excited about his birthday when a train will come for him as his birthday, but Jill's don't believe fairy tale. that made him hurtA few hours later, we introducing Tillie, a young little blue switcher engine who become main character in this film, who want to pull ed the Birthday train but Tower wont let her, she too little. but Georgia having problem she breaks down and Yes Farnsworth, Pete, and Jebediah give it No for their answers. but now Tillie turn to pulled the Birthday train who could say " I Think I Can" and it way to over the Mountain."Nothing Can Stop Us Now" was music and lyrics by Mark Mueller who did theme songs as DuckTales(performed by Jeff Pescetto) and Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers(performed by The Jets) for our favorite Disney Afternoon show for our childhood. He also wrote alots of songs in featured films such as Pokémon: The First Movie, Adventures in Babysitting, and of course Honey, I Blew Up The Kid. this song was good its remind you know about Casey Jr meet American DreamThis is a classic animated film for Bring Back memories, Kath Soucie is did great job who did the voice of Tillie.make sure to let your kids watch this movie and don't let your kids watch as 2011 film.its you likes movies about books, you gonna love Tillie is the Little Engine.I wish Universal Studios/Shout Factory/The Criterion Collection gonna release this movie on DVD/Bluray in futures

This is a pretty great special, even to this day. Kids from 3-6 would especially love it. It's colorful, bright, and true to the book, not just to the point of the art style and the characters, but to it's very core and emotion. The music with the happy, gloomy, and sometimes even scary images displayed (don't worry, nothing your kids can't handle!) gives kids, and perhaps even adults alike, a sense of empowerment towards the end. This is especially important, because everyone and their grandmother knows what happens in the story: birthday train breaks down, other snooty but powerful trains come along (excepting the old, less well-to-do engine) refusing to pull the train, when along comes a little engine who ends up pulling the whole train over the mountain against all odds. Knowing very well the ending, you would think that you wouldn't necessarily feel as worried for Tillie (little engine) as you would when you first read the book, but the story is told in such a wonderful, unique and perhaps even Expressionistic way that you forget about the ending for 20 minutes and immerse in the world that is Tillie's home and the gloomy mountain.Animation fans will recognize the work of Dave Edwards, who, prior to working on this special, is known for the UK animated classic SuperTed. The cuddly bouncy style fits well in this half-hour special, and as mentioned earlier fits well with the style of the book. Fans of TV music in the late 80s will recognize Mark Mueller, who prior to this has done work with the theme songs for DuckTales, and Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers.One of the few things keeping the score to go any higher is the bland setting and story, but keeping The Little Engine That Could interesting is no easy task, and the team has done the best they Could to keep it as interesting as it is. Recommended over the 2011 special any day.

The animation is decent, especially since we are talking about a 90's product. The Voice acting also brings the 90's quality.But I can't bring myself to like this movie. Yea, I see others love it. But I personally would prefer to never have heard of it in the first place. I'm not into the theme which involves vehicles brought to Organic levels of life. I mean Organic (that means, I am excused to like Knight Rider's K.I.T.T. 2000). This movie just makes it worse. In this movie, everything you can see made by human hand is alive for some reason (Satanic Ritual maybe), and that's unnerving for me, who likes technology in the way it is. And when they get rude, scary, or outright selfish, I took a moment to thank the great beings for me to live in the real world. I usually wish I could join the main heroes, or villains, in the movie, video game, or novel/comic I read or watch. This is one of the exceptional cases when I was grateful for living in the real world where trains are not living objects. But can it be worse? Please, keep that scene away from me, in which the phrase "I Think I can" is repeated the great beings knows how many times, in a manner that clearly sounds like imitating the sound of a running Steam Locomotive. I always found that sound annoying, but here, it was turned into an atrocity, a scene from hell, to torture me. Before it even stopped, I was ready to do what I never believed I ever get close to doing... then it stopped to my brief relief, only to give me a song... which returned the discomfort. Again, in most cases, I don't like the characters in an animated movie singing. There are exceptions. And this movie doesn't have that. Let's get to the appearance of the main character of all characters, who has her... yes... HER face on the chimney, where the steam comes out. Doesn't that hurt? Having the face in front of the water tank must be atrocious as well, and some characters do have that too, in a similar manner to Thomas the Tank Nightmare. But here's the elephant in the room: Almost any man made object is given an organic face. And I am thankful for living in the real world this time. Period.If you like it, including the endless repetition of "I think I can" in a train-imitating manner, good for you. Just please, stay away from me whenever you have THIS movie, and especially THAT line in mind.

As a father of a young boy who loved trains as a toddler, I can wholeheartedly recommend this movie to other adults with children who may happen to find themselves in similar positions; read the readily available picture book before, after or - even! - during viewing this video: 'I think I can ... I think I can ... I think I can ...' is a GREAT message to embed in young minds, ain't it? The story is about a small, blue engine asked to take over from older, more experienced engines who have somehow failed to function on a journey carrying an exceptionally important cargo: TOYS! - to the children on the other side of the mountain. Who could resist, eh?