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Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

  • 19851985
  • GG
  • 1h 25m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
1.3K
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Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985)
AnimationAdventureFamily
Rainbow Brite must stop an evil princess and her underlings from taking over the planet Spectra.Rainbow Brite must stop an evil princess and her underlings from taking over the planet Spectra.Rainbow Brite must stop an evil princess and her underlings from taking over the planet Spectra.
IMDb RATING
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1.3K
YOUR RATING
    • Bernard Deyriès
    • Kimio Yabuki
    • Jean Chalopin(story)
    • Howard R. Cohen(story)
  • Stars
    • Bettina Bush(voice)
    • Pat Fraley(voice)
    • Peter Cullen(voice)
    • Bernard Deyriès
    • Kimio Yabuki
    • Jean Chalopin(story)
    • Howard R. Cohen(story)
  • Stars
    • Bettina Bush(voice)
    • Pat Fraley(voice)
    • Peter Cullen(voice)
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 29User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    Rhonda Aldrich in Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985)
    Rhonda Aldrich in Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985)
    Krys. "Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer."
    Rhonda Aldrich in Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985)
    Rhonda Aldrich in Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985)
    Rhonda Aldrich in Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985)
    Rhonda Aldrich in Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985)

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    Bettina Bush
    Bettina Bush
    • Rainbow Brite
    • (voice)
    • (as Bettina)
    Pat Fraley
    • Lurky
    • (voice)
    • (as Patrick Fraley)
    • …
    Peter Cullen
    Peter Cullen
    • Murky Dismal
    • (voice)
    • …
    Robbie Lee
    Robbie Lee
    • Twink
    • (voice)
    • …
    Andre Stojka
    Andre Stojka
    • Starlite
    • (voice)
    • …
    David Mendenhall
    David Mendenhall
    • Krys
    • (voice)
    Rhonda Aldrich
    • The Princess
    • (voice)
    • …
    Les Tremayne
    Les Tremayne
    • Orin
    • (voice)
    • …
    Mona Marshall
    Mona Marshall
    • Red Butler
    • (voice)
    • …
    Jonathan Harris
    Jonathan Harris
    • Count Blogg
    • (voice)
    Marissa Mendenhall
    • Stormy
    • (voice)
    Scott Menville
    Scott Menville
    • Brian
    • (voice)
    Charlie Adler
    Charlie Adler
    • Popo
    • (voice)
    • (as Charles Adler)
    David Workman
    • Sargeant Zombo
    • (voice)
    Alan Lee
    • Additional voices
    • (uncredited)
      • Bernard Deyriès
      • Kimio Yabuki
      • Jean Chalopin(story)
      • Howard R. Cohen(story)
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      This was produced in only three months, at that time the fastest ever for an animated feature.
    • Goofs
      When Rainbow Brite first runs into Orin, he is climbing a stalagmite. His cane and bag of star sprinkles are shown on the ground. When he runs to retrieve them, he is seen holding his cane briefly before he actually gets it.
    • Quotes

      Princess: Mine. I've always loved the sound of that word.

    • Crazy credits
      The end credits scroll in a rainbow-tinted background, while "Rainbow Brite and Me" plays.
    • Connections
      Featured in Reaction & Review: Rainbow Brite & the Star Stealer (2011)
    • Soundtracks
      Brand New Day
      Music by Haim Saban & Shuki Levy

      Lyrics by Howard R. Cohen

    User reviews29

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    Yuck!
    I remember years ago reading in a TV Guide an article about a video store which asked you to select more than one movie title just in case one or the other was already checked out (it was written because back during this time period rental stores were still a new novelty to many at the time), and it mentioned a young teenage girl who was babysitting a small boy who was around five years old. The boy's parents had instructed her to let him select a movie to keep him occupied, and they were standing in line with the two titles he had selected: "The Shaggy Dog" and "Rainbow Brite and The Star Stealer."

    When interviewed, she remarked with freaked-out anxiousness, "I sure hope it's 'The Shaggy Dog' they've got. I'll ***DIE*** if it's 'Rainbow Brite'." The article described her as making the comment with "all the air of one about to get sick on the carpet."

    She spoke pretty much for everybody out there except a tiny select few who were introduced to this film as small girls back during the time period. That's because we have here what just might be the one film that single-handedly represnts everything terrible that happened to animation during the eighties!

    Now to be fair, there were a lot of "cute" children's cartoons that came out during the period which were designed strictly to be animated advertisements for the toys they were based on. (I exempt "The Smurfs" from this list not only because they were great, but because they were never designed to sell toys in the first place and were in fact based on a famous European comic strip.) Most of them were terrrible with cheap animation and dumbed-down plots. The only film out of all of them which has managed to amazingly age with grace is "The Care Bears Movie".

    Now, I don't have a big problem with cartoons designed for young girls--provided they are done right. For example, I actually enjoyed watching the "Strawberry Shortcake" specials made for television during the time because they had a lot of deliberately silly humour and also because they actually had imagination to the concept (adults will now see all the tounge-in-cheek jokes in "Shortcake" that went over their heads as toddlers). But this one isn't even fun on a campy level, save for the portions where it becomes unintentionally hilarious. It's just bad bad bad bad BAD.

    I've always got the impression that Rainbow Brite was created as a Care Bears ripoff, and that point of view remains unchanged today. It is simply the most unoriginal and unimaginative of all the eighties offerings in its genre. Everything present here has been done before better somewhere else by even cheap lousy cartoons from the time which just somehow managed to not be AS cheap and badly written as this one. It was also considered a bomb compared to its competition, and if you dare see it you'll see why. Oh yes, it also has the most self-conscious and pretentious voice acting I've ever encountered this side of badly-dubbed anime.

    As a friend of mine once remarked, "Don't let kids watch this film unless you want them to learn bad manners from Rainbow Brite's stuck-up horse! Can you imagine how many little kids will watch this film and all want to grow up to be stuck-up horses?!" (No, I'm not kidding about that description of Starlite, it's true.)

    Avoid, avoid, avoid. Unless you take a particularly wicked pleasure in watching an animated embarrassment fall on its face, that is.

    (Oh, by the way, in case you were wondering... the teenage girl I mentioned was later relieved to the point of jumping and shouting "ALRIIIGHT!" when she learned her young charge had gotten his hands on 'The Shaggy Dog' instead.)
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    • San Franciscan
    • Apr 19, 2002

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      • November 15, 1985 (United States)
      • United States
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      • English
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      • DIC Entertainment
      • Hallmark Properties
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    • 1 hour 25 minutes
      • Dolby

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