—
The Swan Princess
Film
FilmG1994
Thumbelina
Directed by Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Born of a flower and growing to only a couple of inches tall, poor Thumbelina is worried she'll never meet someone her own size, until she happens to catch the eye of Prince Cornelius of the Fairies. Just as soon as she finds love, however, it's torn away when she's kidnapped by Ms. Toad. Now Thumbelina has to escape Ms. Toad's grasp and search for Prince Cornelius. Luckily, there's a whole city of animals willing… From TMDB
147 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 31, 2026 · last updated Oct 31, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
—
No Data
Sentiment labels for these sources are still being hand-checked; no score yet.
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 38 | 19 | 84 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| TMDB reviews * | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
What people are saying
A written summary appears once the title has a score.
At a glance
Thumbelina is a 1994 animation fantasy romance film, directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, starring Jodi Benson, Gino Conforti and Barbara Cook.
- 134 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy
- posts span Dec 30, 2017 to Oct 31, 2026
Assembled from TMDB, Wikidata and Steam fields and our own counts, nothing written by a model. Method
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
147 public posts have mentioned Thumbelina so far, but it needs 10 opinionated reactions from checked sources before it gets a score. Seen it? Post your take.
The Experts
52%
avg of 2 sources
The People
—
audience score
Reactions
60 of 147 · most liked firstRealizing that my grandmother used to talk about changelings a lot, had at least 20 fairy figurines in her garden, and was absolutely enamored by the movie Thumbelina and had it on repeat in her house when I was growing up. I had a very fae-heavy upbringing
neutral · AI labelView post →I sometimes think about the old Thumbelina movie. I don't remember a goddamn thing about that story except Mama Toad and wanting her to pin me to the bed and suck my face with her ridiculous lips.
neutral · AI labelView post →Another classic Golden Films movie released by Goodtimes, this time Thumbelina is on a mission to save tiny town but the mole version of Old Man tries to stop her! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBBN...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched the '94 Thumbelina movie with my wife last night (he had never seen it) and I forgot how great it was visually but how ABSENT it was story-wise. So I'm making an au with Matteo bc of course <3 teehee #art #sketch #oc 🍄
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m in a nostalgic mood and I wanted to watch something beloved from my childhood. I had this on VHS and watched it daily for a period. It’s probably been 25 years since I last watched 😳 #NW Thumbelina (1994) 🎬
positive · AI labelView post →I think when Anastasia succeeded at being the commercially successful Offbrand Disney Princess Movie that Thumbelina had failed to be, he was like “great, the not-Disney thing is working” and followed the same box office current that led to Treasure Planet and Atlantis also happening
neutral · AI labelView post →which film reminds you of your childhood? I was also obsessed with Thumbelina and The Little Mermaid, but none of the other kids seemed to know The Swan Princess. I was addicted to yearning by the time I was 6 🤭
neutral · AI labelView post →Prince Cornelius! Any Thumbelina fans out there? I think that movie is responsible for a lot of why I am the way that I am haha ❤️ Prince Cornelius was always a great romantic hero in my eyes! Maybe Cornelius will bless my garden 🪴 🧚🏻♂️ . . . #thumbelina #fairy #cornelius #princecornelius #donbluth
positive · AI labelView post →Maddie just told me she is working on improving her film knowledge by watching a film a day. She started yesterday with Barbie Thumbelina. Well ok then
neutral · AI labelView post →Which film reminds you of your childhood? I'd also say Thumbelina BUT Also
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm reminded of a test screening they did for Don Bluth's Thumbelina, where for one of the screenings they put the Disney logo before the movie, and the feedback there was far more positive than usual. I sympathize with the guys who had to make the Thumbelina of open world make-your-own-fun games
neutral · AI labelView post →Thumbelina still means everything to me. I actually found an artist who makes pins of the movie I plan on purchasing.
positive · AI labelView post →It's a shame that the closest we ever got to Carol Channing in an animated Disney film was Thumbelina (a non-Disney Don Bluth film). Channing's unique voice was practically made to voice animated characters.
neutral · AI labelView post →My 10 Favorite Films, off the top of my head. Lisa Frankenstein Hocus Pocus Elvira: Mistress of the Dark The Craft Black Butler: Book of Atlantic Promare Kiki's Delivery Service The Spongebob SquarePants Movie 2004 Thumbelina Lupin the Third: The First
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally!! Thanks to April Fools, I got myself an excuse to draw them again! 🥹✨ By the way, this is based on a scene from the movie #Thumbelina (I’d love to make an entire animatic based on this scene, only if I could uuugh 😭)! I hope you like it~ 🫶💕
neutral · AI labelView post →112.) Quest for Camelot (1998) If you wanna know what I thought of this movie, the thing I was thinking the most about during it was how much I'd rather be watching Don Bluth's Thumbelina instead.
positive · AI labelView post →Wait. WAIT. Barry Manilow sang “Let Me Be Your Wings” in “Thumbelina”????? My brain is exploding. That was such a weird movie but that song was something else 😍
neutral · AI labelView post →M got to pick a movie and requested Thumbelina (1994) based solely on the thumbnail picture. HOLY SHIT WHAT A BAD MOVIE. So bad. I’m now in a rabbit hole of what a colossal box office flop it is. It should have worked! Barry Manilow! The same voice actress as Ariel! Charo! Carol Channing! But omg.
negative · AI labelView post →Looking back at Don Bluth’s Thumbelina, I can see why the film didn’t have go through a huge change after the first test screening went bad. Because in the second test screening, they only put in the Disney logo before the same 1994 non-Disney movie….and they loved it.
neutral · AI labelView post →THUMBELINA WAS A GOOD MOVIE AND IM TIRED OF PRETENDING THAT IT WASNT!!!!
positive · AI labelView post →Felt like doing a redraw of an older piece I did with my spin on Mrs. Toad from Don Bluth’s Thumbelina movie… Frankly, I thought it was a vast difference from what I drew years back. ;3 #mrstoad #thumbelina #donbluth #fanart #cartoon #ArtyFSArt
neutral · AI labelView post →Do y’all remember this movie? #FilmSky #Thumbelina
neutral · AI labelView post →The first film I ever watched at the cinema: Thumbelina I was maybe 4 or 5 and my mum took me and my younger sis to see it at the Peckhamplex (to this day, they maintain the early 90s decor and sticky carpets) I was ENCHANTED. Watching Thumbelina became a core memory.
positive · AI labelView post →So there's an anime based on Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina that you might have seen back in the day when it was edited down & compiled into a "movie" called Thumbelina: A Magical Story. If you've not heard of it, go watch it. It's VERY Good.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think Carrie was the first horror movie I ever watched (at 10-11) as opposed to the first movie that ever scared me which would be... Probably Thumbelina. For some reason www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjdT6KKG/
neutral · AI labelView post →I just realized, I hate the story of Thumbelina Like, the Don Bluth movie version It made me feel gross then, and it makes me feel gross now
negative · AI labelView post →I love that movie! Hans Christian Anderson has quite a few wonderful songs. Also, Thumbelina. I love that one because I was considered very small when I was a little girl. Inchworm is a beautiful song too. 🙂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXi3...
positive · AI labelView post →10 Favourite Animated Features (in no order) Sleeping Beauty Charlotte's Web The Sword in the Stone Fire and Ice Luca Thumbelina Spirited Away Gumby: The Movie The Adventures of Mark Twain Toy Story
neutral · AI labelView post →First mouse is Gypsy from the movie "The Red Shoes" Second mouse is from "Tom Thumb meets Thumbelina" both produced by Golden Films.
neutral · AI labelView post →Which film reminds you of your childhood the most? Don Bluth’s Thumbelina ✨
neutral · AI labelView post →If you see this QRP of your first ever anime. Thumbelina: A Magical Story My mother bought a VHS of the series from StarMaker, but was edited to be seen like a movie. Around the same year, I saw the Don Bluth adaptation of the story.
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters. (6/20) #filmsky #filmchallenge #films 📽🎥🎬 Thumbelina~
neutral · AI labelView post →Im watching Thumbelina and seriously WTF is this movie. Did Don Bluth just get a good dealer that year or something?
negative · AI labelView post →“People of Bluesky, let’s get to know each other better! What’s your favorite movie?” Hard to choose just one…but Thumbelina is definitely an obsession of mine❤️
positive · AI labelView post →Being a redhead growing up, there were 2 main movies (besides the little mermaid) that made me love my hair, and they were Anastasia and Thumbelina 🥰
positive · AI labelView post →this makes me think about Thumbelina (the Don Bluth 1994 film), specifically the scene where she's in Ms. Fieldmouse's home getting warm from being out in the snow.
neutral · AI labelView post →Miss Toad from the Don Bluth Thumbelina movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Thumbelina for the first time tonight and I liked it! Very cute songs in the movie itself and the story was nice, just wanted that girl to find her love and just find her way home somehow. Damn though that forest of bugs and stuff just kinda suck as people huh? LMAO
positive · AI labelView post →#15MoviesToGetToKnowMe Corpse Bride Lisa Frankenstein Princess and the Frog Cruella Beetlejuice The Spongebob SquarePants Movie (2004) Saw Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse Thumbelina Scream Coraline Alice in Wonderland Hocus Pocus Howl's Moving Castle
neutral · AI labelView post →I just posted my newest song cover on YouTube~ Soon from the animated movie Thumbelina. It would mean the world if you watched and liked 🥹 youtu.be/nGB_Mt3iSvM
neutral · AI labelView post →Thumbelina is so good! It’s a Don Bluth movie and so underrated! It’s on Disney plus if you want to check it out 🥰
positive · AI labelView post →just saw someone say Thumbelina is Don Bluth's "worst movie." excuse me??? WHEN TROLL IN CENTRAL PARK EXISTS??????
positive · AI labelView post →Thumbelina is technically a 20th Century Fox film but I was obsessed with it.
positive · AI labelView post →#Junesploitation Day 23, movie 2: THUMBELINA (1994) #movies #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →You got me all starry-eyed 🤩 💖 I used a still from the Don Bluth film “Thumbelina” for this pose and expression, and it ended up being an interesting exercise because it showed me how much I prefer to emphasize angles in my work. Didn’t realize that about myself!
neutral · AI labelView post →My first movie was The Lion King. I was a VERY, VERY small baby and apparently I did an insane shit that went everywhere and my dad missed half the movie while he dealt with the aftermath. The first one I REMEMBERwas Thumbelina. That sexy ass frog changed my brain. It's a miracle I'm not a furry.
positive · AI labelView post →Akazukin's Detective Anime Confirms January 2027 Broadcast 🔍 Studio: Benten Film Format: fairy-tale mystery Cast: six new voices, from a traveling student of lies to Thumbelina hoshika.app/blog/akazukin-s-dete…
neutral · AI labelView post →THREE NINJAS?? THAT SHIT WAS MY JAAAAAMM! That and Homeward Bound Honestly I can't think of a single disney movie I watched more than once.. non disney? Anastasia, Secret of Nymh, Balto, Thumbelina, The Hobbit.... and yes, even We're Back, many times (So much more Don Bluth than I realized!)
neutral · AI labelView post →Beautiful, Thumbelina! You look like a movie star.🤩⭐️
neutral · AI labelView post →Haven't seen either movie before, thankfully, but a couple of old children's movies come to mind: Swan Princess & Thumbelina Swan Princess isn't a love story: It's a story about an arranged marriage between two people who don't even love each other, and can't even communicate properly.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thumbelina (from the 1994 Don Bluth movie) is Autistic! She stims in the film (fidgets with/flails her hands, pressing her hands to her mouth, and covering her ears) has a special interest in having wings/flying, and has sensory issues (perfume smell and crunching noises)!!
neutral · AI labelView post →What does The Rules of the Game or Thumbelina have to do with the movie Steve Jobs? Find out in 9 days
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't care how flawed Don Bluth's Thumbelina movie is, this design goes hard as heck.
positive · AI labelView post →so the guy that made Thumbelina also did Anastasia and some mouse movie. (big famous ones) maybe try those?
neutral · AI labelView post →A gift for my friend WaterLord420 to help cheer them up with Yang Xiao Long and Ruby Rose from RWBY having gotten some hypnotic makeovers to look and act like Mrs Toad from the 1994 Thumbelina animated movie as a new pair of dancing and singing sister! #rwby #hypnosis #yangxiaolong #rubyrose #cute
neutral · AI labelView post →I'd say: "No, and I haven't watched it either." (P.S. Jodi Benson also voiced Thumbelina in the Don Bluth animated film of the same name)
neutral · AI labelView post →After Thumbelina and Troll in Central Park and during the making of this film, Don was not having a time of his life as his studio really went rock bottom than it should.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, it was not good and I clearly see why AniMat hated this film more than Thumbelina and a Troll in Central Park. But I’m not gonna say the same thing with me until I see both films. It’s bad, but it might happen with the next two films.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love Thumbelina! But this makes me grateful that I've never had to try and explain that movie to someone who hasn't seen it. 😅 "So you see then this Gilbert Gottfried beetle.."
positive · AI labelView post →One of my fave fun facts is the actress who played Thumbelina in the notorious Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972) went on to appear in Star Trek: The Next Generation
neutral · AI labelView post →
Posts are quoted from public profiles with links to the original. Want yours removed? Contact us.
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
