Stellaluna

Even speaking as someone who does not remember the book that well, this movie was not an enjoyable experience.

There is very little focus on the lovable Stellaluna adapting to life as a bird, and more focus on her antagonistic adopted siblings. Flap in particular is especially unlikable, while Pip is at least tolerable. Three completely unnecessary characters were added as well: Askari the spider is difficult to like thanks to his inflated sense of self, and a voice that reminds me of Snips from "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic", but not in a good way. Horatio and Kazuku, a pair of fashion obsessed birds don't take up as much screen time as Askari, but were equally pointless.

The only really good things I can say about this were Stellaluna herself, plus her song "My Whole World's Turned Upside Down." which can be found on Youtube.

Stick with the book.

Stellaluna is a 2003 adaptation of the 1993 book with the same name, roughly ten years apart. It focuses on the titular Stellaluna, a fruit bat that accidentally gets seperated from her mother and ends up adopted by birds.

The moral is pretty sound, that adopted families are just as loving as biological ones, but I find the bird family a tad too strict, a sentiment I also share with the book version. Here the bird siblings are even rude and initially hostile to Stellaluna, which is an interesting addition.

By far the biggest deviation is creating an actual villain for the story, upping the stakes. I'm not sure how I feel about that, especially since this is a rather short film regardless.

A tepid reccomendation.

Stellaluna is a nice colorful piece of animation movie.

The only nag is the short runtime.

Don't get angry at me. But I kind of like Stellaluna. While most of you chose Disney, I chose Warner Bros. and MGM. I found a Stellaluna cassette tape at my local library. It was something I wasn't expecting to find. I rented it, and fell madly in love with it. After all, it's a cartoon, and Chiara Zanni and Beast Wars Scott McNeil are in this. If you think this is something, I think you should read the book.

I've had my share of watching movies over and over, and then forgetting about them. But this one. It takes the cake! I've watched this movie and read the book countless times as a kid, and now that I've reread and watched it, it's still a heartwarming masterpiece. But I just don't get how people find this horrible? Obviously, the movie isn't going to be perfectly accurate to the book. But at least it has some of the details included? Besides, some of the few songs in here are quite catchy, at least to me. But at the end, it's everyone's opinion, so I won't judge. Attack me all you want, I don't care.