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Thumbelina

Play trailer 1:56 Poster for Thumbelina G Released Mar 30, 1994 1h 34m Kids & Family Fantasy Animation Play Trailer Watchlist
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Born of a flower and growing to only a couple of inches tall, poor Thumbelina (Jodi Benson) is worried she'll never meet someone her own size, until she happens to catch the eye of Prince Cornelius of the Fairies (Gary Imhoff). Just as soon as she finds love, however, it's torn away from her when she is kidnapped by Ms. Toad (Charo). Now Thumbelina has to escape Ms. Toad's grasp and search for Prince Cornelius. Luckily, there's a whole city of animals willing to help her.
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times I didn't much care, for two reasons: Thumbelina's woe-is-me act got old real fast, and I couldn't care less about her matrimonial prospects. Rated: 2/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Hollis Chacona Austin Chronicle Rated: 2/5 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Scott Thomas Buffalo News Bluth puts a lot of stock in action and movement, sometimes at the expense of characterization. Rated: 2.5/5 Feb 29, 2024 Full Review Gary Wolcott Tri-City Herald [Don Bluth] does expert work on the animation. At times it has an almost three-dimensional feel. And in spite of 10 yawner songs from Manilow, he manages to keep the story moving. Rated: 4/5 Feb 28, 2024 Full Review Avaryl Halley Movie Bitches It features an all-star cast, some questionable gender politics, but some FABULOUS outfits... Dec 21, 2021 Full Review Andrew Galdi Movie Bitches This was fun...almost a bit of a Brave Little Toaster vibe... Dec 21, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member I see things that are relevant to the time the movie was made, so it's nice to spot those details.. The one day romance is a bit weird but their dedication to each other is really cute. Why did everyone love her so much they wanted to marry her. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 09/29/24 Full Review Kaito K One Dimensional Main Character A Disabled Bird And Flat Charectors In A big buget Film Thumblenia is horrible character only thinks about marrying Cornelius the entire 85 minute film this is probably one of the worst princess movies I ever seen I hate how. Thumbelenia instantly fell in love with Cornelius told the Beatles that she just met him even but when she didn’t have a problem with Cornelius, doing the same thing. 🤔 And Cornelius is an even a good looking person and the toad looks like a mental ill psycho you would see in the Streets Cornelius looks like a fourty. year-old man and Thumblenias Like What 3 days Old 🤨 it just blows me away that this is a Don movie. It seems so much like a Disney movie then it don’t like movie and it’s even streamed on Disney+. All the other Don blue movies are not. Jocko is such a useless freaking character in duck. Can’t even pick up a freaking tiny person. That’s not even as big as a finger just forces her to sing even freaking fly her back home which isn’t even like a mile away but the following in love is all that happens like nothing else happens. Nothing absolutely nothing. She just walks back home after getting stolen. It’s so boring. Animation is really good. but the whole movie? Garbage! And all the characters are unlikable also. Some of you guys were saying that bumble isn’t good looking. I know she has little on here, but she actually is kind of hot. Except she is a Just A one dimensional Character so yeah that’s all I have to say this movie is extremely boring if you’re a huge donbluthfan then this isn’t the one Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/09/24 Full Review rossi w good art for everyone ! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/24 Full Review Cameron L Not a very good movie but Jodi Benson was amazing at singing, and the the animation was passable. But the rest of the movie was mediocre Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/27/23 Full Review Monsol E There are some movies that are just as good as an adult as they were when you were a kid....this ain't one of em, but I'm still fond of it. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Monica P When I was younger, I thought it was a magical movie about true love. As a young adult, I thought it was hilarious and terrible, about a 15-16 year old girl with veeeeery little agency who falls in love with a dude she's known for 5 minutes and then eventually married him. As an adult, I realize it's about a child taken advantage of by so many people who claim to know what's best for her. She's lied to, and because she has no world experience, she has no ability to tell that they're lying to her. For all we know she's actually like a month old because she pops out of a flower looking like a teen, lmao. The point is, Thumbelina has no agency because she hasn't LEARNED agency. By the end of the movie, she has learned that people can lie to her, tell her things and convince her with pretty words- and that the only time someone tells her to sing is when Jacquimo is trying to help her. Everyone else demanded she sing for them- Jacquimo demanded she sing for her. It's about the fine line of people trying to take advantage of you by saying pretty things, by SOUNDING like they have your best interests at heart, and the difficulty in knowing for sure whether they do or not. Even Jacquimo sounded like he was just demanding the same thing of her as everyone else- but the difference is there. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Born of a flower and growing to only a couple of inches tall, poor Thumbelina (Jodi Benson) is worried she'll never meet someone her own size, until she happens to catch the eye of Prince Cornelius of the Fairies (Gary Imhoff). Just as soon as she finds love, however, it's torn away from her when she is kidnapped by Ms. Toad (Charo). Now Thumbelina has to escape Ms. Toad's grasp and search for Prince Cornelius. Luckily, there's a whole city of animals willing to help her.
Director
Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Producer
Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, John Pomeroy
Screenwriter
Hans Christian Andersen, Don Bluth
Distributor
Warner Bros.
Production Co
Warner Brothers, Don Bluth
Rating
G
Genre
Kids & Family, Fantasy, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 30, 1994, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$10.1M
Runtime
1h 34m
Sound Mix
Dolby, Surround
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