Anastasia

Pros: Characters, Some of the Animation, Music, Voices
Cons: Historical liberties, Everything they do to Marie

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Pros: Nice artwork, famous voices
Cons: A historian's nightmare

Don Bluth's full-length animation "Anastasia" was on television this past weekend. After watching this movie, I cannot recommend it to parents of small children...and only to parents of older children if you entertain them with a history lesson...

Pros: wonderful story and songs
Cons: historically inaccurate

How many elementary school kids could say they knew about the Russian revolution before this movie came out? Not to say that this movie is any more historically accurate than Disney's Pocahontas. Instead of a talking willow, the most bizarre ...

Pros: Amazing depth of characters and Newman's majestic score.
Cons: The story and theme are a little more mature for younger children.

The story of the lost Romanov princess has become a legend in itself; captivating the interests of people worldwide. To mould such a story into an animated movie was certainly no easy task; but what directors Don Bluth and Gary Goldman have achieved is ...

Pros: Good-looking animation.
Cons: Poorly scripted.

One would think the animated film industry would be free of the same criticism live-action, Hollywood movies often receive, such as too many special effects and not enough story. Watching "Anastasia," it's apparent that trend has been picked up on in the ...

Pros: Terrific rotoscoping
Cons: Bad revisionist screenplay

Pity the child who writes a history report based on the animated Anastasia. According to a gaggle of screenwriters, the literal ghost of "The Mad Monk" Rasputin is personally responsible for the Russian Revolution, which was itself not a...

Pros: excellent music, good character development
Cons: may not be for small children due to scenes with Rasputin and demons

Over the years the question of the fate of Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the Russian Royal Court, has risen to the top of history like a stubborn bubble. Did she escape? If so, how? And where is she now?

In this animated film by Don...

Pros: Pretty good for a kids movie
Cons: Lousy animation, songs, and plotting

Before Don Bluth did the visually superb but narratively flat Titan A.E., he did this charming "little" animated movie. While Titan A.E. had more amazing animation and was geared more towards older kids, Anastasia was more enjoyable and...

Pros: Great computer animation blended with the regular animation, beautiful soundtrack
Cons: The whole Rasputin thing is turned into something silly, some spots of blocky animation

Anastasia is one of the best releases by Don Bluth. Never having been able to compete with Walt Disney, this latest release is proving that he isn't out for the count yet. I myself thought it WAS a Disney release until after I rented it.

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Pros: tolerable animation and story
Cons: middling animation, movie doesn't live up to its promise

Apparently, Twentieth Century-Fox is quite forgiving when they look at resumes. If you were a major studio spending oodles of money to stake your claim in the animation field, would you hand your dice over to Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, the guys who did...

Pros: Depth of the characters. The animation.
Cons: Some adult content.

This movie has beautiful animation. The story is good. And, the characters are well developed.

It starts out at a Ball. The Ball is as beautifully done as the one in Beauty and the Beast. Then, in comes the party crasher. A magician that...

Pros: music, story, characters, animation
Cons: some characters are too cartoony.

Anastasia is a really great movie! I have seen it 15 times, seven while it was in theatres. The idea of making an animated movie based on the famous Romanov Grand Dutches Anastasia was pure genius. The music is beautiful, the songs "Once Upon a...

Pros: Spectacular animation; great voice performances.
Cons: Follows Disney formula much too closely.

Months before its release, Fox's epic animated musical Anastasia had been touted as the first legitimate challenge to Disney's animation empire, which looked more vulnerable than ever after the disappointing box office (and, as it turns out,...

Pros: entertaining for children
Cons: more for ages 5 and up

We got this movie for our daughter when she turned 3. She watched it once and was hooked! The music and dancing and singing keep her entertained and she even learned to say Rasputin quite quickly! The other thing I like about the movie is that it...

Pros: Elaborate animation and an intro to a new voice, Liz Callaway
Cons: More adult than children's fare; probably won't hold the kids

Had this film had the marketing power of Disney, you'd likely be humming the tunes and singing its praises. The animation, music and story are more adult-like which probably doomed it...kids will go, "huh" and you'll return to the sink...