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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

This is a pretty great special, even to this day. Kids from 3-6 would especially love it. It's colorful, bright, and true to the book, not just to the point of the art style and the characters, but to it's very core and emotion. The music with the happy, gloomy, and sometimes even scary images displayed (don't worry, nothing your kids can't handle!) gives kids, and perhaps even adults alike, a sense of empowerment towards the end. This is especially important, because everyone and their grandmother knows what happens in the story: birthday train breaks down, other snooty but powerful trains come along (excepting the old, less well-to-do engine) refusing to pull the train, when along comes a little engine who ends up pulling the whole train over the mountain against all odds. Knowing very well the ending, you would think that you wouldn't necessarily feel as worried for Tillie (little engine) as you would when you first read the book, but the story is told in such a wonderful, unique and perhaps even Expressionistic way that you forget about the ending for 20 minutes and immerse in the world that is Tillie's home and the gloomy mountain.Animation fans will recognize the work of Dave Edwards, who, prior to working on this special, is known for the UK animated classic SuperTed. The cuddly bouncy style fits well in this half-hour special, and as mentioned earlier fits well with the style of the book. Fans of TV music in the late 80s will recognize Mark Mueller, who prior to this has done work with the theme songs for DuckTales, and Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers.One of the few things keeping the score to go any higher is the bland setting and story, but keeping The Little Engine That Could interesting is no easy task, and the team has done the best they Could to keep it as interesting as it is. Recommended over the 2011 special any day.

"The Little Engine That Could" is a 1991 short film that runs for slightly half an hour. as this one has its 25th anniversary this year I thought this may be a good time to give it another watch. It is about a little locomotive train that looks a lot like Casper the Ghost and has the difficult task to make it over the mountains so that a boy can have a great birthday party with lots of entertainers and animals. The boy's sister is a bit of a bully and the main antagonist if there is any. It is all very harmonic I guess. The characters are funny to watch including pessimistic poultry and courageous clowns. The animation looks a lot older than 1991. And the title is probably the biggest spoiler ever as the dramatic final scenes are really all about whether the engine is gonna make it or not. As a whole, a pretty decent watch that scores more through cuteness than through drama or comedy, but it's worth checking out. Thumbs up. The voice cast includes a bunch of famous names, including Frank Welker, who seems to be in everything.

The animation is decent, especially since we are talking about a 90's product. The Voice acting also brings the 90's quality.But I can't bring myself to like this movie. Yea, I see others love it. But I personally would prefer to never have heard of it in the first place. I'm not into the theme which involves vehicles brought to Organic levels of life. I mean Organic (that means, I am excused to like Knight Rider's K.I.T.T. 2000). This movie just makes it worse. In this movie, everything you can see made by human hand is alive for some reason (Satanic Ritual maybe), and that's unnerving for me, who likes technology in the way it is. And when they get rude, scary, or outright selfish, I took a moment to thank the great beings for me to live in the real world. I usually wish I could join the main heroes, or villains, in the movie, video game, or novel/comic I read or watch. This is one of the exceptional cases when I was grateful for living in the real world where trains are not living objects. But can it be worse? Please, keep that scene away from me, in which the phrase "I Think I can" is repeated the great beings knows how many times, in a manner that clearly sounds like imitating the sound of a running Steam Locomotive. I always found that sound annoying, but here, it was turned into an atrocity, a scene from hell, to torture me. Before it even stopped, I was ready to do what I never believed I ever get close to doing... then it stopped to my brief relief, only to give me a song... which returned the discomfort. Again, in most cases, I don't like the characters in an animated movie singing. There are exceptions. And this movie doesn't have that. Let's get to the appearance of the main character of all characters, who has her... yes... HER face on the chimney, where the steam comes out. Doesn't that hurt? Having the face in front of the water tank must be atrocious as well, and some characters do have that too, in a similar manner to Thomas the Tank Nightmare. But here's the elephant in the room: Almost any man made object is given an organic face. And I am thankful for living in the real world this time. Period.If you like it, including the endless repetition of "I think I can" in a train-imitating manner, good for you. Just please, stay away from me whenever you have THIS movie, and especially THAT line in mind.

As an adult I grew up with this story in picture book form. I loved trains as a toddler (still do as an adult), so after seeing this just the other day, I only wish this gem of a cartoon was around when I was little.The story opens with Tillie, a small yard switcher locomotive, spending her days making up trains in the yard and moving locomotives in and out of the roundhouse. She enjoys her work but dreams of getting a road assignment, a train of her own. Sharing the railroad with her are Farnsworth, a refined passenger diesel locomotive, Pete, a rough and tumble freight hauler, Jebediah, an elderly engine who handles the branch line milk trains, and Georgia, a friendly locomotive who handles the "Birthday Train" a toy and food run for the kids on the other side of the mountain. In charge of them all is a grumpy, high strung dispatch tower who oversee's the day to day operation of the railroad. The rest of the characters are the toys aboard the Birthday Train and some incidental line side folks, such as talking eagles and coyotes, a pair of kids on the other side of the mountain, and a work/rescue locomotive named Doc.The premise of the film is the same as the children's' book, with Tillie taking over the Birthday Train on her own accord following Georgia breaking down,and the other engines not wanting to or be able to assist. With the rally cry "I THINK I CAN", Tillie heads off over a tough stretch of mountain railroad and encounters adventures along the rails as she strives to bring the train to its destination.Well drawn, well voiced, and oddly endearing, this film continues to carry the message that if you have the heart and put your mind to a task, you can do anything!