Stellaluna

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.

Horrible, Horrible, Horrible. An abysmal corruption of a wonderful book. Don't bother with this piece of junk. I have two children and have seen my share of stinkers, but this one might take the cake! The story differs from the book and the writers have added additional characters (not necessarily bad, but in this case they are). The most egregious change, however, is the wholesale rewrite of the main characters' personalities. For those who are familiar with the story, the birds have been re-written to be antagonistic rather than accommodating to Stellaluna. Stellaluna is a cast as an unwanted outsider. The firm mother bird from the story, is now a overly sweet, loving character. The animation is comparable to Saturday morning cartoons circa 1990. I'd rather watch static than this rotten film...better yet, read the book!

I found this on a free streaming platform and it looked cute, so I decided to give it a try. I didn't realize it was based on a book and it honestly comes across as a poor copy of the movie "Ferngully" which had some big name stars (Robin Williams) doing the voices.

I liked the animation, but I found the storyline confusing. That made the movie as a whole rather dull and boring and it just seemed to drag.

I would suggest watching either "Ferngully" or "Ferngully 2" instead of this movie.

I always like movies about the environment or about animals and this filed both of those aspects. It just wasn't that great.

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.

I grew up with this movie on VHS, so I admittedly may be biased with the amount of good memories I have attached to it. However, I really do still enjoy this movie and the message that it brings about accepting your differences, as well as the struggles of being in an adoptive family. I remember relating as a French girl in an all American school, seeing myself in Stellaluna and her struggles to fit into a new context that she's unfamiliar to. I believe many other children would relate to this struggle, being a common one that is surprisingly rarely addressed in modern children's media.

With cute and nicely drawn traditional animation, catchy and fun songs, and nice voice acting, Stellaluna is a movie I definitely recommend, nostalgic or not.