The tiny girl meets a fairy prince who
Directors: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Stars: Jodi Benson, Gary Imhoff, Gino Conforti, Charo, Gilbert Gottfried, Carol Channing.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111419/
Watched online, good print.
8 songs (plus versions & reprises) in the Soundtracks, all Music by Barry Manilow, Lyrics by Bruce Sussman and Jack Feldman.
I don't remember anything of the Thumbelina fairy tale. This one has her with a normal-sized adoptive human mother (like Tom Thumb). She interacts with a bluebird, a frog family (with Spanish accents, headed by Charo), a beetle (GG, just as annoying as you'd expect, but that's what he's playing), a field mouse (CC), a mole, and of course, a fairy prince and his family.
Although the fairy prince has wings, he rides a bumble bee. He may have rescued her from one or two encounters, but mostly she stumbles along on her own, with creatures "protecting" her for their own greedy reasons (she has an extra-pleasing singing voice), and ultimately rescued by the bluebird, who delivers her to the fairy realm, where her song melts the ice of winter, bringing an instant spring and the fairy royal family.
It's just another wannabe princess tale, but in miniature. Meh.
However, it is very pretty to look at, with lovely saturated primary colors.
distr. Warner, dir. Bluth & Goldman; 6-
