Too many fans seem to be blown away

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Hans Christian Anderson was truly many years ahead of his time since this story about the poor little girl peddling matches on the street being ignored by people hustling and bustling while doing their Xmas shopping offering no comfort or compassion to this needy child truly defined the result of the over-commercialization of Christmas and people losing sight of the true meaning of the season.

it is one of films who are not defined but story - well - known - but for art to translate in image a classic text. the science to present new nuances for Andersen story . and, in that case, the job is remarkable.for the grace of details, for the smart solutions, for the lovely animation, for the blue and white and gray, for the magic and for the last images. a film like an embroidery. delicate, simple, touching, honest and hard careful work. the little girl is different by the original character but the new details are beautiful homage to the author. a lovely short film.useful for the remember of childhood emotions.

This short only gives another good example of what to be thankful for and a blessing to count on that holiday. That's exactly what I love about this: The lesson/message/moral there is in the end. Which is some of us should consider ourselves fortunate enough not to be in that situation and go through what the little Russian girl had to go through and struggle to survive on the streets daily and/or nightly. With her having to try to get by, selling matches to the passersby. This is definitely one that goes out to the homeless.A poor, little, Russian girl is a match vendor and she goes about her routine attempting to sell matches on a wintry night. Hoping to use the money she could've received possibly to buy some food I imagine. Sadly for her, there are no takers. Afterwards, she heads into the alley and settles under a makeshift tent. She then uses up her matches and every time she lights one, she imagines other things that she could've been doing at that moment, such as having a nice dinner. The visualizations are her only means of escape, if solely temporarily. Another vision she has is that she either returns home or visits the house of her grandmother. A third involves her in a sleigh ride. Youtube was once again the first source of where I saw this months ago and one commentator said that the girl was dumb for wasting all of the matches that she had and that the commentator was glad for the girl's eventual misfortune, and demise. To that commentator, I'd say/type:" I don't think it would've really made much of a difference. Even if the girl hadn't used up all or any of her matches, she still wouldn't have been able to withstand the weather/climate that night. But since she did use up all of the matches, the fires she made with them simply burned themselves out after a while and she still didn't endure the winter anyway. It was inevitable and bound to happen either way, a no-win situation. Other than you saying 'it was her own fault', I wonder if you were in her situation but you saved all of your matches, would you be able to bear the cold? And how would you feel if somebody said the same that you said about her fate? Making a dense comment like that and failing to think ahead and logically before commenting? "We have no idea for sure accurately how nor why the girl ended up being so poor and getting on the streets, but how can nobody continuously feel for her after the aforementioned case that I mentioned above? Anyway, I recommend this because it's wonderfully told with actions instead of dialogue, plus since like probably the late '50s or early '60s, we've been getting one new Disney 2D animated short per year. So, it's a real treat that even after Home On The Range in 2004, we still got the Disney 2D featurettes, if not full-length feature films, in a time in which animation is dominated by the 3D/CGI style. I wish there were more than one Disney 2D cartoon short per year though, even if that's better than none at all, but still. It's a real tearjerker that will tug at your heartstrings. I never got teary, but I'm also sad for her and wish the conclusion of this would've been on a happier note, like somebody or some people in the animation crew suggested and would've liked (as the other Disney films had traditionally or usually avoided somber endings) . Each time anyone watches this, it's important they bear in mind that the point of this is to be grateful for what they have and not take everyday things for granted. Not having to strive the hardships and shortcomings like she did and literally weather the (snow) storm or at least try to do so.

I didn't get my first taste of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" until a few weeks ago, when I watched Jean Renoir's silent short-subject adaptation, for which he unusually cast his 28-year-old wife in the lead role. Many subsequent versions of the story have followed, the latest being this impressive 7-minute snippet from Disney, which tells the story wordlessly against a classical music soundtrack. Notably, 'The Little Matchgirl (2006)' was the studio's final 2D-animated film, the last remnant of a dying art, its seems, in popular American animation. Directed by Roger Allers {whose only previous directorial credit was 'The Lion King (1994)'}, this short was nominated for an Academy Award in 2007, but lost to Torill Kove's 'The Danish Poet (2006),' which I unfortunately have yet to see. From a studio whose non-Pixar track-record has been a little shaky in recent years, this little treat suggests a glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel, and that Disney still retains more than enough creativity to produce quality works of art.In pre-revolutionary Russia, a young girl stands shivering in the winter cold, trying unsuccessfully to sell matches to passersby. As though she didn't exist, one person after another strides past without even acknowledging her silent pleads; one man scavenges enough kindness to help her down from a pole, but waves away the offer of a match. As night falls, the young girl huddles beneath a snowstorm, trying miserably to warm herself by the flame of a matchstick. As she slowly and tiredly succumbs to exposure, the girl descends into sparks of fairytale, envisioning the warm home of her deceased grandmother, with a roaring fire and a dinner table bulging with food. 'The Little Match Girl' was initially produced for a 'Fantasia'-style compilation film, and so the music – Aleksandr Borodin's "String Quartet #2 In D Major: 3rd Movement: Notturno (Andante)" – plays a major role. However, the music doesn't "interact" with the story and images as did the segments in 'Fantasia (1940),' and so there's an impersonality of tone that the film struggles to shake off.