For the past few weeks, I’ve found myself watching my old VHS movies, especially movies that I watched when I was a little girl. While doing this, I have found some great underrated films that tend to get lost in between all the princesses, Pixar animated films, and the newest live-action remakes.

They are also a great source of fashion inspiration.

So for my next few posts, I’ll choose one of these underrated movies each week and give you a quick recap of the film and its production, a rundown of each character’s style, and my own real-life recreation of each look.

In case you’ve missed my past posts in this series, I’ve covered Disney films The Rescuers, Oliver & Company, 101 Dalmatians and Robin Hood. From other production companies, I’ve covered FernGully: The Last Rainforest.

This week, let’s focus on a Warner Brothers production, Thumbelina.

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About Thumbelina (1994)

Thumbelina is an animated film released in 1994, based on Hans Christian Andersen’s story of the same name.

Thumbelina is one of Don Bluth’s attempts at a Disney-Renaissance-type of story. As such, it is the predecessor to one of his most beloved and popular movies, Anastasia.

The production of this film was troubled to say the least. The script was being re-written constantly and executives meddled with everything to make the final product resemble Disney’s formula as closely as possible.

Although intended for children, the movie deals with very heavy themes: depression, death and harassment being just a couple of the most prominent examples.

While now it is a sort of cult-classic among ’90s kids, when the film was released it was a box-office bomb and failed to live up to the studio’s expectations.