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This routine small tots' animated feature is about a young girl named Rainbow Brite who brings color to the universe. She is forced to do battle with the henchmen of a wicked princess determined to pl... read more read more...unge everything into a colorless darkness. Before the princess can carry out her plan, Rainbow joins up with the warrior Krys and some special horses to outsmart and outfight the anti-technicolor faction. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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G, 1 hr. 25 min.

Directed by: Kimio Yabuki, Bernard Deyriès

Release Date: January 1, 1985

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DVD Release Date: November 2, 2004

Stats: 288 reviews

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  • March 24, 2011
    Yes, it's a cheesy kids cartoon-based movie from the 80s, but it actually was really cool, the story is good and so is the animation. I enjoyed it, and I think kids today will still like it too.
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    February 26, 2011
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    Even in the world of merchandise tie-in animated movies, this Rainbow Brite outing is pretty terrible. One of the main points of the film revolves around the Big Bad tying a rope around a planet and towing it to her home with a spaceship. Yeah, okay. Then there are the unneces... read moresary comic asides with two bumbling villains that don't work on any level. Over on the editing and scripting side, the action constantly shifts away from Rainbow Brite and her mission just to keep the ancillary characters fresh in the minds of the audience. Those minor scenes, though, last a whopping 30 to 45 seconds, never providing enough time for those sequences to do anything of importance. The end result is a film that goes beyond cheesy to so sugary sweet I wanted to get my teeth checked after watching it. Even other blatant money grabs of the decade like the Transformers and G.I. Joe movies included risk and, well, real world stakes. There's nothing like that here, if you include winter not being able to go away...and the people of Earth literally giving up because of the snow and grayness. Really?
  • March 24, 2011
    A wonderful kids movie full of hope and life lessons! I even enjoyed it, and I'm not a kid anymore.
  • August 14, 2008
    This is what made me a Rainbow Brite fan. The TV series was ok, I watched it too, but this was much more darker than the TV show ever got. The monsters Rainbow had to fight were amazing and I loved Orin, since he was so much like Yoda.
  • July 9, 2008
    A cute fable based on the hit girls' cartoon series, Rainbow Brite, in which the spritely cartoon moppet rides a horse and battles a dark lord who wants to cause a never ending winter.
  • July 11, 2007
    One of my "guilty pleasure" films. Saw in Best Buy not too long ago and had to buy it. I loved this movie as a kid...and would still watch it as an adult
  • June 7, 2007
    Rainbow Brite was my favorite cartoon as a kid...and this was my fave RB movie. It was better than the My Little Pony one and full of kid-like adventure.
  • March 23, 2007
    oh wow, this was one of my favorite movies as a kid, i wish i could get ahold of a copy on dvd, i totally wore out my vhs copy.
  • February 19, 2007
    Another follow up from the orginal cartoon series Rainbow Brite. Great colorazation, and mastered scripts on this one. A fantastic cartoon caper...
  • January 28, 2007
    Found this on DVD in Target and did the happy dance in the aisle...then looked around to see if anyone noticed

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January 10, 2004
Chicago Reader

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Janet Maslin
May 20, 2003
Janet Maslin, New York Times

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Emanuel Levy
September 4, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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