About Thumbelina
Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina was an animated film put out by Don Bluth Studios in 1994. Although it was filled with celebrity voices and some very nice animation, I get the impression that it wasn't very well-received by critics; which is just too bad for them, I guess, because the film's target audience seemed to like it very much. I remember when the video was first released I was poking about in the electronics department at Wal*Mart and they were showing it on the TVs - and all the parents were having a heckuva time getting their little ones to follow them back into the rest of the store. "Wanna watch Jacquimo!" I remember one pouty little boy declaring as he gazed at Jacquimo swooping above the streets of Paris.
What's the plot, you ask? It's simple enough: Girl meets boy, girl gets betrothed to toad, girl gets kidnapped to dance in jazzy beetle nightclub, girl gets betrothed to mole, girl finally finds boy again in time to have a happy ending before her 86 minutes is up.
But it's all in the telling! This is a neat little movie filled with interesting characters, great musical numbers, and some nifty animated sequences. But then, that's just my opinion, isn't it? ;^) You see, I kinda like watching Jacquimo swoop above the streets of Paris myself.
About This Site
I wasn't going to make this site but then someone talked me into it (*cough*Annie*cough*). I don't know how much is going to wind up on here but we'll see. I also don't know if there will ever be any artwork or stories not provided by myself; I'm figuring on letting the site sit awhile and seeing if any fans come oozing out of the woodwork. Thumbelina is one of those cutsie movies that a lot of serious fanfic writers don't like to admit liking, even when they do. I know because I was one of them. ;^)
I myself probably would have never set eyes upon such an obvious kidfest if my father hadn't given me a copy of the tape one Christmas when I was about eighteen, after having run dry on ideas (and no doubt seeing kids gawping at it in the electronics department of Wal*Mart). I was glad enough to give it a view-through based solely on the fact that Barry Manilow was involved in the scoring (I do freely admit to liking Barry Manilow), and found it to be more fun than I had expected. The soundtrack, as expected, got me (I bought a copy), but I also liked the characters, with the notable exception of those big-eyed Jitterbug children whom Grundel should have gobbled up right off - but that shouldn't surprise you. ;^) I also admit that I found Thumbelina herself a bit tiresome for the first...oh, ninety percent of the movie, with her constant lamentations that she'd never ever possibly see her home again and that she should give up any plans to be happy ever again for the rest of her life; but to be fair, if she hadn't done that, the movie would have only been a few minutes long, because she would have just had Jacquimo fly her home as soon as she met him. And then, uhm...and then this site wouldn't exist, and you wouldn't be reading this right now and thinking what a nutter I am. So hah.
All right, that's quite enough of that. Go on and look at the rest of the site! :^) And please email me with your comments, ideas, and fanwork!
(And don't forget to put in your header what site you're talking about, because I do run over a dozen sites, and that can be confusing.)