Warner Bros.
Directed by Don Bluth
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Warner Bros.)
A lonely widower is given a thumb-sized daughter by a friendly witch. Craving companionship with someone her own size, a fairy prince is drawn to her singing. On a memorable bumble bee flight, she also enchants a family of performing frogs in the nearby swamp, who kidnap her the next day. She is rescued by a swallow who leaves her with some of his bug friends. She is soon kidnapped once again, this time by an amorous beetle who also wants the to sing in his show. The beetle and frog conspire to set a trap for the fairy prince and win her outright once and for all. He gets frozen in ice, while Thumbelina escapes and finds shelter in the burrow of a field mice. A neighbor mole sets his sites on marrying Thumbelina. It is up to the fairy prince and his friends to rescue her. Of course there is a happy ending. A very imaginative, and underrated, Don Bluth production, with some great songs, including the Razzie-winning "Marry the Mole", which I thought was quite catchy.
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