Rumpelstiltskin | | Cast : | Billy Barty, Amy Irving | | Director : | David Irving | | Studio : | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | April , 1987 | | DVD Released Date : | August 09, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | G (General Audience) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 10, 2005 | | Summary | Great Movie, not so great DVD. | Content
 | For those of you who were looking forward to a widescreen release of the Cannon Movie Tales, this DVD will dissapoint. Unlike what both the press release and this site says, the DVD's are mastered in Pan&Scan full screen.
The movie itself is great, with fun songs and pretty good acting and costumes. It's just such a shame that these movies will never be seen the way they were originally intended until MGM decided to re-realease them (which means probably never). |
| Rating | | | Date | June 06, 2005 | | Summary | The First Cannon Movie Tale | Content
| Rumpelstiltskin was released in 1987 and starred Billy Barty as Rumpelstiltskin and Amy Irving as Katie, the miller's daughter. It's the well-known tale from Grimms expanded and made into a musical.
Here's the movie's description available from Sony Pictures: "Happily ever after has never been so golden! Amy Irving (Tuck Everlasting) stars as a miller's daughter who must learn magic from a troll to perform a miracle in this dazzling musical adaptation of the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Billy Barty (Willow), the "dean of the screen's little people" (Los Angeles Times), co-stars as the mischievous troll whose name is the kingdom's best-kept secret! After Katie's (Irving) father boasts to the king that she can turn grain into gold, she finds herself thrown in a dungeon with orders to spin straw into gold...or else! A crafty troll (Barty) agrees to help her perform the seemingly impossible feat - and land the king's handsome son - but his assistance comes at a price. Unless she can figure out his unusual name, she must hand over her firstborn child!"
The Cannon Movie Tale series of nine films has become nearly as popular among fairy tale enthusiasts and family film fans as Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre. Some would argue that this series is even more popular. Either way, these musicals are suitable for the entire family and feature well-known actors from the 1980s. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 16, 2005 | | Summary | Not What I remembered from my childhood... | Content
| I bought this movie for a pretty steep price for a used video, mainly because I remember my parents taking me to see it when I was 7 years old. Now that I have seen this movie again, I realize that it is actually a very SUPERFICIAL and unusually disturbing story. First of all the film openly praises GREED over and over again. There is a whole song and dance number about the King's love for money and how he loves the fact that he is "greedy, greedy, greedy..etc..etc." Even more disturbing about this is the fact that the greed issue never really has any resolution. You would think they would end up stating the consequences of being a greedy idiot, but they never really do, and the King and his snobbish Queen never end up getting what they truly deserve. Also, The prince is weird and treats Amy Irving's character as if she were just an object of bragging rights. Although the actor puts on several unimpressive facial expressions when his parents demand Katie to continuously spin straw into gold. A REAL Prince would have come to the defense of the airheaded Katie and whisked her off so that she didn't have to end up selling her first born child to a troll. By the way, What did Rumplestiltskin do that was so wrong? So what if the guy wanted a baby? He made a legally binding agreement with Katie and she should have stuck to it. Instead, with her newfound Princess status she seeks to destroy him and once again sneak her way out of a bad situation. Overall, I ended up feeling rather sad for Rumplestiltskin and think he should have gotten to keep the baby. Katie had a responsibility to that troll and she should have kept it! In fact, I would have rather seen the KING sucked into a firey pit in the floor than Rumplestiltskin. The movie conveys a few negative moral dillemas that pretty much could give kids the wrong impressions. First, GREED IS GOOD! Money is everything and you should DEFINETLY put it before human lives. Second, Lying is just fine and dandy, especially if it is to your own benefit and you can possibly attain ROYALTY status. And Finally, Shirking responsibilities and weaseling your way out of promises is ALWAYS a good idea if you change your mind. The characters are all unlikeable and the singing SUCKS! This is not a movie I would reccomend for kids to watch and hopefully it didn't effect my seven year old brain too much when I first saw it back in the 80's. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 23, 2004 | | Summary | Treasure of Childhood | Content
| Musicaly fairy tales. What more could a kid ask for. One of the classic and coveted Cannon Movie Tales series, although admitedly not one of their best (The Frog Prince and Sleeping Beauty are arguably better), still a member of something amazing. A bit of a twist on the old tale that succedes in bringing the characters to life, as many revisions of fairy tales often try but fall short of doing. Throw in a dash of sweet, catchy tunes that kids likely will be humming in those small quiet moments, even 10 years from now, when they've techinically "outgrown" childhood loves. As a child this movie was one of my most treasured possesion, and still holds a deep and beautiful place in my heart. For a 5-12 year old kid, especially one that likes fairy tales, this is an unmissable, everlasting treasure. Better even than the fairie tale theatre creations. I mean it. |
| Rating | | | Date | October 27, 1999 | | Summary | A great movie - IT OUGHT TO BE RE-RELEASED!!!!!! | Content
| I loved this movie since I was a kid. It took me, if you can believe it, 5 years to track down a copy, and even now it's not available from where I found it. Amy Irving is delightful and, surprisingly, can sing very well. Clive Revill is a riot as the king and for once the prince really is charming. The script has taken quite a few liberties with the story, but it's so cute I really didn't care-- Anyway, this was my favorite movie when I was a kid and I still love watching it. |
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