Good concept, poorly executed.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I remember loving this film as a child, back when I was blissfully ignorant of the hidden themes. Now that I've watched it as an adult I have to say this has to be one of the most abysmal children's films ever. The story is very inappropriate. Thumbelina gets passed around like the flu at an elementary school and sexually harassed by nearly every male character she comes in contact with. Almost every other character physically and/or mentally abuses her. I don't know what kind of message the writers were going for, but that is not a good one to be giving to children.Sure the follow your dreams theme is good, but I don't see how getting lost, abused, and then at the end of the movie marrying a guy you've spent maybe an hour with counts as someone following their dreams. Even if that guy just happens to be a prince (shocker). The rest of the story doesn't provide much more in terms of quality. There is the stereotypical and unrealistic love at first site relationship and the problem of not fitting in and wanting more. The overall story has a lot of holes and spacing issues, with a very inaccurate time line. The characters were mostly terrible or annoying. The mother, for all the love she claims to have for Thumbelina, doesn't even go looking for her when she goes missing. Instead she sits at home in the off chance someone else will find her, even though she told no one the girl was missing.The only redeeming factor in the movie are the ballads. "Let Me Be Your Wings, "Soon", and "Soon (Reprise)" are all great songs, even if they seem out of place with the tone of the rest of the film. Thanks, Barry Manilow.

It seems every story about that has Thumbelina in it seems to always talk about her finding love and then being taken to marry some other creature only to be rescued by her lover. This one is no exception to the trend. The first one I watched was a mole, now it's a toad, what will be next? Maybe a caterpillar? It seems like in this version everyone wants to have Thumbelina as their bride. It feels sort of annoying because it was one thing after another. It was OK for an adventure story for kids but to me, the concept was going a bit long. When it's about 45 minutes of nothing but people fighting over her without even letting her have a say, it just bugs me. And then she picks someone who had almost no real character growth and was this side prince looking for her. Just… the characters felt boring and predictable. The only character who had any personality was a… I want to say French… sparrow who would sing about love and try to push the two lovers together. And he didn't even have much too even do in the story, he just would sing songs of love and slightly try to be the voice of wisdom though even then, he only talked about the thoughts in ones heart and not their head. Somehow I don't think that's being the voice of wisdom but he was the better one out of any of them.The animation was actually the better part of the show. It was beautifully done and rather clean. The only problem I had was characters would move slightly strange, putting their arms up in ways that feel slightly awkward. Other then that, the clothing is really fluid and I didn't really find any hiccups in the animation where they would forget something or they would forget a frame or two. The characters are really beautiful, looking much more proportional then some other's I watched, except for The frogs. I don't think they really ever seen a frog before because next to all the other characters, they just look like blobs. The brothers act more like Moe, Curly, and Larry by the way. Smacking each other and acting like idiots, you could wonder if they are just in their for comedy. Sadly, even when I was little, I just did not get the humor.The soundtrack to this is actually not that bad though there are a lot of songs. Some sound like Disney songs while other's fall pretty flat. The same goes for the voice acting as I liked some but others just did not have enough power that they should, Characters like Thumbelina (might I remind you main character here) sounds way to quiet and childish. I don't like her's much. Why the characters have such strange ascents also is beyond me. You start with Jaquimo who is a French ascent (Beautifully done I think), then we have The crazy toad family that sounds like a mixture of Spanish and French with a little bit of Jamaican, the unmistakable voice of Gilbert Gottfried as Mr. Beetle (Seriously, what the hell is that accent anyway?) and then Thumbelina and her Mother, even the fairies, have a old English ascent making me want to yell out 'choose a country already!' All these things add up to a movie that doesn't exactly live up expectations. If feels like it hit the mark a bit flat from where it should of though at the time of its release, it was a pretty big seller if I remember correctly. I had even went to see it in the movies when I was little which was a big deal being a family with not that much money or time.

I saw this as a kid and I actually liked it but now GOD does this movie suck really bad. For starters the animation was too cheap,the songs were dreadful except Soon and Let Me Be Your Wings which are my favourite songs in this movie,The voice acting was great only because it features Jodi Benson who's the voice of Ariel from The Little Mermaid and here she voice s the main charcther,the bird was so annoying,the prince was terrible as he was dim-witted and only cared for Thumbelina's singing voice,Charco was like Nikki Minaj's twin sister and that song On The Road was terrible and don't get me started with Marry The Mole which is the winner of the worst song in an animated film by the Razzie Awards back in 1994. Oh and the composer is of course Barry Manilow who done hits like Copacabana.Alright so let's dive into the story. An old woman wishes to have a child and she receives a magic flower that gives her a little thumb- sized girl named Thumbelina. So Thumbelina wishes to see people that are exactly the same size as her and she wishes to be a fairy.So here comes Cornelius who is a crowned prince who stumbles across Thumbelina,and what do you know the two are instantly falling head over heels in love with each other. But when Thumbelina gets kidnapped by a toad who wants her to marry her son,she has to find her way back home. Overall if you love Jodi Benson's singing voice and if you love really cheesy movies like this then check it out but for the rest avoid at all costs.2/10

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.