It doesn't really surprise me that they would shoot it down.
I can't say anything about Siskel (because I've never read any of his reviews), but Ebert doesn't really rate anything very high that he himself doesn't enjoy.
That would be like me watching a western and giving it a bad review simply because I don't like westerns.
That, to me, doesn't make him a very good movie critic.
In my honest opinion, a good movie critic is suppose to try to see things and critique them through every perspective they can, not just their own.
As for this movie not having things for adults.
Adults don't only respond to sexual innuendos, ya know.
I'm watching this movie right now on VHS and there are some very serious things that I didn't understand as a child.
I hadn't really understood the depression the earth was going through because of the lack of Spectra's light when I was a child.
Watching it as an adult, the depressed news anchor made more sense than he ever did when I was little.
Especially when he said "hospital patients have stopped asking when they'll get better."...that line alone makes the tone of the movie much more serious, and when I was a child it went right over my head (I was kind of a ditzy child, though)
That said, I did almost understand the insanity of the Princess.
She was pretty much bent on having that planet.
Also having a diamond as a pet, that you actually console and scold ("get off the bed!" "not on my throne!")?
That's an "I'm crazy" message no matter how old the viewer is.
I didn't understand this as a child, but the when the Princess says "I always get my way in the end!", she meant was gonna crash her ship into the planet (hence Orin's line "then this whole planet will shatter into a million pieces"), thus committing suicide!
I understood the crash implications...didn't understand that meant the implied suicide attempt of the Princess (before she blew up and died anyway, lol).
Heavy stuff for a child.
So how can anyone say this doesn't have adult stuff in it?
-Amanda
"She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in storybooks written by rabbits"
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mkayboi-1
13 years ago
This wasn't the "Finding Nemo" of its time or anything, but in its own sweet '80s way, "Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer" was about selflessness and the benefit of a collaborative spirit.
Rainbow Brite, whose charge is to bring color to the world, goes off to uncharted territory to save the universe. The sibling-like bickering between her and Krys ultimately becomes a friendship that saves everyone from the the maniacally selfish Princess, Rainbow Brite's antithesis.
The animation moves in great paces, between the vibrant Rainbowland, to the ice white Spectra, to the foreboding Castle, the craggy prison planet, and back again.
Rainbow Brite's plucky heroism is endearing. She's just a little girl trying to bring color into to the world.
"First you ask if you can be red, knowing that I'm always red."
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