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| Director(s): | Conrad Helten | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: | 5.70 out of 10 (34 votes) |
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| Runtime: | 75 minutes |
| Resolution: | 720x480 px |
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| Bit Rate: | 1416 kbps |
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Visitor Reviews
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Cashing in and that's not all..... posted on 31 Aug 2009
This movie and the stupid toys in "green" packaging is just an attempt to cash in on all the "green" NONSENSE these days. Also, all the young girls these days are s*x tramps, so of course they talk like the brats they are. Pathetic....
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Wonderful Movie! If you want the original story Thumbelina this is Not it but its soo much better. After Diamond Castle(which was so inapropriate for young children) I was hesitant to buy this movie. What a surprise its right up there with Island Princess, Princess & The Pauper & 12 Dancing Princesses but no scary people yeah. My 5 & 2 year old can't get enough of it and the whole Green message & finding "true friends" is wonderful Barbie needs to realize its age groups watching are quite young you sure hit a home run with this movie.
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First of all, this is from a 13- year- old who loves Barbie. I have seen the movies; I love 'em all. I like Thumbelina a lot, but I do have a few peeves with it.
Pros:
1. It's very different. A change from all the princess movies. Don't get me wrong! I LOVE the princess movies, but a change is always nice.
2. It inspired me to help the enviroment more.
3. The Twillerbees are very cool- I love their home!
4. It's a good story, but there isn't any scary stuff. It's hard to have a good movie without a little bit of fright, or on-the-edge-of-your-seat stuff.
Cons:
1. The animation is NOWHERE NEAR as beautiful as the older ones! It remids me of movies like Toy Story. I DID NOT like the construction Boss Myron. He looks completely unrealistic and despicable.
2. I didn't like the way the parents were portrayed as "kiss-ups." It's a way of undermining parents authority. Although you must understand, it's not that they are dumb slobs, but they are too busy and don't have time for their daughter. So they simply let her have whatever she wants. It's the classic "rich kid" case- a daughter longing for attention and getting it from her firends because it's unavailable from her parents.
3. Barbie tells the story to a redhead, brown- eyed Emma, along with a group of kids. I missed the one-on-one, heart-to-heart sister relationship between Barbie and her sisters.
4. "Ashlyn", Violet's friend, is SOOOO irritating!!! All she says is "Ch-ya!" grr....
5. I didn't like the way Thumbelina and her friends appeared to the kids at the end. I like the more mystery, where Barbie might say something like, "Maybe..." but you never see the fairy-tale people- so the kids are just left thinking.
Overall, I really like this movie. I have 4 pros and 5 cons, so I give it a 4 out of 5. I disagree with those who say that the rich girls are terrible. Violet is a brat the whole time, but McKenna makes a small sacrifice to help Thumbelina and learns that true friends aren't people to just impress and try to be better than. SHE LEARNS HER LESSON.
I think it's a good movie for kids, but I really miss the old animation. I miss Barbie's old face (have you noticed the change???) and I miss the old style. Other than that, it's good. Enjoy! -
In short, do not buy this movie. We got it since it seemed similar to Tinkerbell, which our 4 year old loves (and we do too), and because of the Thumbelina name. But ever since purchasing this movie, my 4-year old daughter is walking around the house imitating the words and tone of the rich kid snobs in this movie. We are very careful in teaching our daughter to use nice words and to speak in a kind manner. I winced every time I heard the dialogue - including a few choice phrases by Thumbelina.
It is a total rip-off of the Thumbelina name. This movie is already in the donation pile. -
Don't let the name fool you. The story has nothing to do with the title. Simply put, overly rich, nimrod parents have plans to build a factory. Their one female child has a sudden epiphany from spoiled brat to hyper environmentalist. Once the protagonist girl encounters these "highly delicate" creatures that cannot fend for themselves from destructive human elements and their construction equipment, she attempts to talk her parents out of destroying some plot outside the city and convert it to some forsaken preservation. Ridiculous at best. Um, didn't it take a factory to press these DVD's and deliver to market?? In the trash it goes, not the recycle bin, the trash!
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Let me first start by saying this movie does have pretty music and my daughter did like it. However, I as a mom did not like it and do not approve. The snoby rich girls in the movie are not role models that I want my 4 yr old daughter watching. After my daughter watched this movie two times, I found her walking around the house mimicking and repeating lines the rich snobs said in the movie. I wasn't exactly thrilled about that. I am dissapointed with this Barbie movie.
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I rented this DVD for my 4-year-old preschooler today and after watching it with her, I must say I'm disappointed with this production. It was a clever marketing ploy to use "Thumbelina" as the main title. I thought we'd get a story similar to the fairy tale but this is a far cry from the original tale. The only thing that remains is the name - Thumbelina here happens to be the main character but she belongs to a tiny race of people called the Twillerbees who live amongst the wildflowers in a big field. When Thumbelina and her friends are accidentally transported to the apartment of a spoilt rich girl Makena, they are momentarily trapped. During this period, they learn of a construction project by Makena's parents that will result in the destruction of their habitat. With some persuasion [more like a bribe - Thumbelina promises Makena that she will make stuff for Makena to impress her friend Violet], Makena tries to help the Twillerbees.
Frankly, the storyline is not captivating - the Twillerbees are an interesting idea but don't really hold much interest. They seem to possess some magic but once again, the exploration of this magic is not in-depth. The dialogue comes across as stilted and the human girls, Makena and Violet are the epitome of rich, spoilt brats. They are constantly on their cell phones talking about makeovers, and shopping and other trivial things [yes, I know tweens are into these things, but we hear enough of those in real life to have it reiterated on a kid's DVD]. The message of conservation is a good one, but this movie failed to make a positive impression, either on me or my preschooler.
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Awful- I am glad I rented it before buying it. Not a good story about thumbelina, the daughter character is spoiled rotten, the friends are obnoxious brats, the parents are ridiculous- "we'll give you whatever you want, dear" This is not a good role model movie at all, no lessons learned other than how to act spoiled and rotten! SKIP THIS ONE- I wish I had never let my daughter, age 6 watch it.
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In an unfortunate move by big business owners, construction stopped at a local factory site before ground was even broken. Contractors standing by to start construction were disapointed to learn that the field was to be turned into a nature preserve. "What am I going to do now? I was depending on this work to feed my family for the next 9 months," said one distraught electrition as he learned about his contract being cancelled. Tours of the nature preserve are given daily by Barbie.
That's what I was thinking, anyhow, as I watched this movie.
The girls' snobishness is one of the points of the movie. The main character during the movie learns about true friendship, ditches her old "friends" as she makes friends with the twitter-people, and has a new purpose beyond shopping. As far as Barbie movies go, it was very OK. Not at all memorable. Even the smallest can make a difference? That's not such a stretch if you have pretty cool magic powers or super rich parents! Maybe I'm just feelin cynical at the moment. But, of course, as I write this my daughter is watching the movie for the third time... -
My four-year-old and her friends LOVE this movie (my 2 1/2 year old, too), and while I have to agree that the snobbish attitudes of the rich girls aren't my favorite, overall, I liked the show and thought it was a nice change from the many Barbie movies that have an evil "villain" character in them. True, it's not really the story of Thumbelina, but it's a cute, refreshing story, not scary at all for little ones, and I quite enjoyed it myself, for what it is. I recommend it.
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This is not remotely the story of Thumbelina. This is the story of the 'twillerbees', s small race that can magically make things grow - their life is idyllic until some greedy capitalists with a spoiled-rotten daughter decide to bulldoze the twillerbee's meadow to build a factory.
I have to say that this movie made me angry because I feel like it was a bait-and-switch. Instead of an anticipated Barbie updated fairytale classic, I was given a tired cliche on the evils of wealthy business people who just want to destroy the earth.......
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We own a few of the Barbie movies and my 3 year old daughter wanted this one too. I was a bit hesitant because I didn't really like the look of the littler character. After watching it I was even more disappointed. The voices of the fairy characters are very annoying and even though the message is good in the end, the way the friends behave is not exactly good viewing material for the young girls watching this. I also was disappointed at the lack of songs, which is one thing I like about most of the other movies. Stick with some of the other movies!
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I tried to look for any reviews befor buying this DVD, but found none. I was weary of buying it without reading any reviews, but figured it was worth a shot...however I regret buying it and will probably pass it along to a friend who wants it. I watched it with my 3 and 4 year old daughters today. The girls in the movie are rich snobs who are always competing with eachother to get the better "thing". One of the girl's dad buys her an island named after her, and then the main character teases her about being the last person in the world to have an island named after her. They go back and forth the whole movie about trying to impress eachother with their newer, better acquisition. McKenna and her friend Violet have severe attitude problems and their speech is dripping with contempt and superiority each time they talk to eachother.
Overall the message is good...McKenna changes her tune and befriends Thumbelina (who is small but brave and is a hero in her own right). Barbie wraps up the story by reminding her group of kids that even the smallest person/tree can make a big difference. But the snobby interaction between the friends and the emphasis on impressing eachother is just not something I want my girls to watch over and over. Just my thoughts...... -
This is only the third Barbie movie my daughters (3 and 2) and I have seen. I wasn't happy with Fairytopia (even though my daughter loves it) and Swan Lake was beautiful but my three year old doesn't like watching it. Thumbelina was available for rent and I was pessimistic, but we got it anyways. Granted, the daughter character and her friends are obnoxious and annoying, but the rest of the story is pretty sweet. Themes: no matter your size you can make a difference; and, true friends care a lot for each other and there is no need to compete. My daughters can't get enough of this movie and I know they will have a fit when it's returned.