It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This movie is pure crap. Trying to be a Disney classic maybe, but almost everything in this film is a disgrace. However.............the songs are kinda cute I guess, but never the less, the film is bad bad bad!One particular scene in this movie shows little Thumbelina trapped on a lily pad screaming at the top of her lungs while the rapids of water are sending her to her doom. Her French bird friend starts screaming too.........meanwhile.........at the end of the film this bird carries her to safety away from a perverted mole on his back because he has wings!! Lily pad?? Everyone start screaming the bird forgets he can fly.

I have never seen this version of Thumbelina before. I remember being in playschool, the other little kids and myself watched another version in which I can't seem to find on the Internet. 22 Years later in 2016, I managed to come across this little movie. This movie came out the year I was born so there was no way I couldn't have watched it! Anyways I will tell you what I have a thought about it!I honestly didn't know Jodi Benson aka Ariel was on this, as usual she always has her incredible singing voice. Seriously, I'm so glad she took part in being involved as Thumbelina. She is an amazing actress and singer. I thought the songs were quite nice but could easily be forgettable since this movie is quite a hidden classic gem. The drawings were absolutely beautiful. It's too bad nowadays, we normally use 3-D for movies. When I have my own kids, I will definitely show this to them! They would absolutely love to see it!

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.

As of 2011, Don Bluth continues to live as one of the best animation directors of all time. The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, and All Dogs Go To Heaven were his most successful films yet and one of the most decent movies he has done was "Thumbelina" based on the story by Hans Christian Anderson.It revolves around Thumbelina, a small person, who meets a fairy prince named Cornelius and have now fall in love. Later, she stumbles upon an adventure as lots of furry creatures try to marry Thumbelina.Now, I haven't read the story or The Little Mermaid at all, but for a animated adaptation, this one is just a decent movie.I'll go for the bad parts: The story line was butchered and underdeveloped it attempts to be a Disney-clone and the characters were also underdeveloped. The dialogue was so lame it makes the characters lose their personalities.The good parts are: The animation and art design were very colorful and creative, the songs may not be the best I've heard (especially with Let Me Be Your Wings and I'll admit it was a "Whole New World" ripoff) but they were OK for the most part, the characters were very decent, and the voice acting wasn't that bad with the best coming from Jodi Benson.Thumbelina isn't as good as Bluth's successful works and I do understand the criticism it received, but it's not as terrible as I thought it would be. Yes, the story and characters could've been better, but at least the music score makes the movie kind of watchable and only for little kids. So, I'll give this a decent rating.6/10