Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

1985

Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

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Movie Info

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 plunge 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.

Rating:

G
Genre:

Animation, Drama, Kids & Family
Directed By:

Bernard Deyriès, Kimio Tabuki, Kimio Yabuki
Written By:

Howard R. Cohen
In Theaters:

Jan 1, 1985 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Nov 2, 2004
Runtime:

85 minutes
Studio:

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Patrick Fraley
as Lurky/On-X/Buddy Blue/Dog/Guard/Spectran/Slurthie

Bettina
as Rainbow Brite

Peter Cullen
as Murky/Castle Monster/Glitterbot/Guard/Skydancer

Robbie Lee
as Twink/Shy Violet/Indigo/Lala Orange/Spectran

Andre Stojka
as Starlite/Wizard/Spectran

David Mendenhall
as Krys

Rhonda Aldrich
as The Princess/The Creature

Les Tremayne
as Orin/Bombo/TV Announcer

Mona Marshall
as Red Butler/Witch/Castle Creature/Spectran

Jonathan Harris
as Count Blogg

Marissa Mendenhall
as Stormy

Scott Menville
as Brian

Charlie Adler
as Popo

David Workman
as Sgt. Zombo

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Critic Reviews for Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

All Critics (7) | Top Critics (3) | Rotten (7)

Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer is not an especially imaginative tale, and the animation is at times lifeless.

Mar 26, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Robert Blau
Chicago Tribune
Top Critic
So incompetently crafted that it makes the Saturday-morning cartoons seem like Disney classics.

Mar 18, 2013 | Full Review…

Michael Blowen
Boston Globe
Top Critic
Wherever she goes, she leaves a rainbow trail. As a matter of fact, the film has rainbows everywhere. I stopped counting at 247 or so.

May 20, 2003 | Rating: 1/5

Janet Maslin
New York Times
Top Critic
An exemplar of the state of children animation from that era if I ever saw one. Not a compliment, that.

Dec 4, 2016 | Rating: 3/10 | Full Review…

Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy
Noisy, subpar cartoon adventure with lots of peril.

Jun 17, 2014 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Renee Schonfeld
Common Sense Media
The animation is wretched, and the whole thing is so sickly sweet as to be almost nauseating.

Mar 18, 2013 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

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Audience Reviews for Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

Mar 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.

Aj V Super Reviewer
Feb 26, 2011

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 unnecessary 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?

Jason V Super Reviewer