inerrsh A really nice wholesome movie. The music is beautiful, story-line is pretty predictable though. Nevertheless, really enjoyed it. This is the sort of movie that and group of people can enjoy together; whether it's a bunch of friends, a family or a couple. Be warned, the songs will be stuck in your head for a long time and you'll end up playing them on repeat for a long time after the movie.

gavin6942 The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.When Disney chose Pocahontas as a historical figure to turn into a happy cartoon, they opened a can of worms. I mean, the movie is alright, but has no connection to the reality that Pocahontas went through and how traumatic it must have been."Anastasia" is sort of along the same lines. The story takes place in a much more recent time, but is still very much about real people. Yet, it feels more like Don Bluth got it right. Some things are wildly inaccurate (like Rasputin being a zombie), but it comes across more like a fanciful what-if story than any attempt to whitewash history. I suppose one might say they conveniently ignored almost all of the Russian Revolution, but this is a story for kids after all.

Meiliana Kartaatmadja The first time i watched this movie, i was 10. Now, i am 22 and i still love this movie. I don't know why people don't give good enough rating for this movie ( maybe because it's different from it real story or because the story it's not quite deep? i don't know since, i don't read the history. Even though it is different from the real story, we should keep in mind that this movie is a fantasy movie not a biographical one. It is targeted for younger audiences, so you can't blame the writer to imbued the story with magical things ).As a kid, i watched this movie as a love story when a lost princess who tried to get what has been lost and found much more precious things along the way.The story line is quite simple ( and i do not know that this movie is based on true story, up until now ). It's a story about Anna, how was growing as an orphan, not knowing or remember who she is. Then someday, she went on a journey with 2 man, Dimitri and Vladimir ( and a dog ) to find her real identity. Fantasy, Love, Adventure, History,you can find thus mix of feelings in this movie. The song is beautiful, i listen it a lot when i was a kid.Overall, i think it's worthwhile spending your time to watch this movie.

Blueghost I love a good animated story, and "Anastasia" delivers in all departments. I often get a little annoyed that high production value animation is reserved for female-market-driven films, because as the Japanese anime industry has show, boys and males in general like good animation if throw in some action (gunfights, heroics, and so forth). But here in the US of A, most of the animation is aimed at kids and females.Even so "Anastasia" has a good number of action scenes, but the thing that really sells this film is Don Bluth's and his crew's attention to character emotive detail. When Meg Ryan voices cheerfulness or distrust or some other emotion, we actually see the character move and gesture to reinforce those emotions, complete with facial expressions. I mean, wow, that's what great animation does. This is something that Disney could have, and should have, produced, but Maverick-animator Don Bluth carried the torch for a not-so-historical film regarding Czar Nicolai's youngest daughter.The salespoint for this film was that it was historically accurate. Accurate in that some lady in Paris tried to fob herself off as the long lost princess before passing away (I seem to recall the committed suicide, or some such, but am not certain). It's accurate in that she may have been part of a plot to gain fame and money by touting a big lie. The real truth is that the Romanovs were killed by revolutionary Red Army forces in their own basement; gunned down with rifles, and that not a single soul survived. It was also reported that the girls dresses were so laden with metal and gems that it took several rounds to bring them down. That's the ugly truth about the killing of the Czar's family, and the even uglier truth about the Soviet Union, whose founders perpetually cried foul for all of the Czar's deliberate ignorance of his people's pleas for better treatment under the law. One might say each gave birth to the other.But, history aside, this film, for all of its liberties taken with the fraudulent Anastasia and actual story of the Romanov's, truly is a great work of animation. The CGI is not overused, and rendered where needed, while the hand drawn characters are the usual high quality as they express emotion in perfect sync with the voice talent. The crowd and party scenes, the action sequences, the more intimate character driven scenes, the nightmare and dream sequences, all make for a really dazzling visual story telling style.Again, my one gripe is that they don't do the same thing for male oriented action films. Oh well.It's not Disney, but is worthy of Disney and Disney praise as it was produced and directed by a former Disney employee.Definitely worth a night's rental, and it strikes me as a good date movie too.Enjoy.