I don’t know if anyone has ever brought this up, but if so, forgive me! 
Have any of you ever seen the 1997 film Anastasia?
I was pretty young when I first saw it, but I still love it today. It’s my favorite non-Disney animated movie. In my opinion it has wonderful animation, and the soundtrack is just gorgeous: I love the songs “Journey to the Past”, “Once Upon a December” and “At the Beginning”, and the score is marvelous, too.
Your thoughts?
Yay! Anastasia! Heheh…
Truth be told, this is the only film I have ever fallen asleep on in the theater (I saw the film late at night and was rather drowsy at the time), but I did love the production itself, nonetheless.
I’m not a big Bluth fan, but I have to admit that this particular film is probably one of his best, besides The Secret of NIMH. The animation is spectacular (as always), most of the songs are addicting and decent enough that you want to sing to them, the characters are intriguing (to a point), and the story isn’t half-bad either.
Taking characters into consideration, I have to admit that I had the biggest crush on Bartok when I first saw him. I can relate to the whole “non-stop chattering” deal; plus, he’s just plain adorable. I’m so weird. sweats
All in all, I’d give it an 8 out of 10. 
– Mitch
Seemingly a diamond in the rough, Anastasia is a relatively great performance of the Russian royal family.
I think it was over looked from more popular titles, but the movie itself had a good story to it with enough emotion to move it along.
I never seen this movie before, but I love the songs in it. My girlfriend says that she loves it though.
I vaguely remember seeing it, but it was such a long time ago. I’m gonna have to agree with vimfuego that All Dogs Go To Heaven was handled a lot better character-wise, and I found it a lot more memorable.
I saw it long ago, and then recently watched it again. It’s pretty good, but could have been better. I thought Rasputin was awesome, and frankly, when you watch the past scene, you’re given reactions from both sides and can almost tell that the royal Russian family is bullying him… too bad he decided revenge was his only option. I honestly found his story more intriguing than Anastasia’s.
The score is sweet, by David Newman (one of my favourite modern composers, and that says something because I’m more of a classic composer fan) but by this time he has to write the score to fit the songs which leave him not enough to be creative… his past work, like The Brave Little Toaster, is a perfect example of him having complete control over his music.
And of course, Bartok is adorable, and has the same name as one of my favourite pianists. I looove European accents, so this movie just made it to being likeable for me. I didn’t find the songs very memorable though.